DIY Tips and Equipment
From Disapedia
Build it Yourself
Here's a place we could link up to designs, plans, instructions for building your own assistive devices or equipment, or modding what you already have. Build your own wheelchair! Do it yourself accessibility. Build your own ramps, how to install handrails.
Right now, this is just a collection of annotated links. Let's post full plans and images and instructions here too, following the lead of other open source hardware projects.
For tips on this wiki, link from Category:DIY Tips. Make a page for each tip, post photos, and put the category on the page.
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Manual Wheelchairs
- Whirlwind Wheelchair International - Open Source wheelchair design to help developing nations build low-cost, maintainable wheelchairs.
- Free Wheelchair Mission - Very cheap to build wheelchair, uses plastic lawn chair and bike wheels.
Wheelchair Decorations
Powerchairs
Crutches
Canes
Walkers
Other devices
- Build your own ramps.
- How to install a grab bar.
- Toilet lift assist, common hardware store parts, under $150 cost, water-powered.
- Foot flusher, can be added to any regular toilet.
- Super Duper Voice Box - cheap, switch-controlled AAC with 2 recordable messages.
- Handicap-Friendly Bedside Table/Nightstand, with grab bar and easy to reach switches.
- Step by Step instructions on securing wheelchairs in vehicles.
- Various projects from MDA.
- One Switch, collection of electronics projects for assistive devices.
- Gearability, site with gear and reviews and how-tos.
