HandiDrone Brings FPV Flying to People with Disabilities
The challenge is to design low budget DIY Drone Mods for people with reduced mobility to fly anywhere in the world.
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Join the Enable Makeathon and Help Build Assistive Technology
Design assistive technology for people in low income or rural areas for a chance to win cash prizes.
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Prosthetic Arm Made Real for Amputee’s Kickass Mad Max Cosplay
Laura Vaughn was blown away by Imperator Furiosa in the new Mad Max movie. She knew she had to replicate this awesome prosthetic for a kickass cosplay.
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5 Life-Changing Accessibility Inventions Made in 72 Hours
Makers hacked real problems faced by people with special needs to create tools that will help improve mobility, independence, and comfort.
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Tikkun Olam Make-a-thon Helps Those In Need
“Tikkun Olam” is a Hebrew phrase that literally means “Making the world better”. TOM, which stands for “Tikkun Olam Make-a-thon” is a marathon of Making and Hacking dedicated to just that. For 3 days this summer, Makers of all kinds will be gathered in an amazing industrial space in Nazareth, Israel, to develop, design and […]
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Help a MAKE Fan by Giving him the Finger
Design the coolest or craziest prosthetic finger for a MAKE reader.
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Glove Based Sign-to-Speech System
The EnableTalk system uses a glove-mounted microcontroller to collate information from a passel of onboard sensors—11 flex sensors, 8 touch sensors, 2 accelerometers, a compass, and a gyroscope—and transmit it wirelessly to a nearby computer or smartphone for translation into machine generated speech.
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