3-D Printing helped these teens build a smarter wheelchair

by Larra Morris

Sixteen-year-old Mohammad Sayed wanted more from his wheelchair. So he started hacking the thing.

Sayed is a student at NuVu, an experimental high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts where students learn practical skills through hands-on projects, and for one his projects, he used a 3-D printer to transform his wheelchair into something more useful. He and his classmates added a laptop tray and a canopy, and, most radically, they rebuilt the chair so that Sayed could propel it with a rowing motion rather than the traditional push.
via Wired

Image: NuVu

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3-D Printing helped these teens build a smarter wheelchair

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