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Sub-Saharan Trikes
These photos are a compilation of many tricycles seen by Amos Winter in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia over the past two years.
Manufacturing Videos
These videos by Amos Winter show how various African workshops produce their wheelchairs.
Course videos.| TOPICS | SUMMARIES | STREAMING VIDEOS | DOWNLOADABLE VIDEOS |
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APDK- Handcycle manufacturing
| This video shows the process of making a tricycle at APDK in Nairobi | (RM - 56k)
(RM - 220k) | (MP4 - 31.9MB) |
APDK - Wheelchair manufacturing
| This video shows the process of making a wheelchair at APDK in Nairobi | (RM - 56k)
(RM - 220k) | (MP4 - 45.5MB) |
DAGE - Handcycle manufacturing
| This video shows the process of making a tricycle at Disabled Aids and General Engineering in Dar es Salaam | (RM - 56k)
(RM - 220k) | (MP4 - 26.4MB) |
Mobility care - Wheelchair manufacturing
| This video shows how Mobility Care makes a wheelchair | (RM - 56k)
(RM - 220k) | (MP4 - 29.1MB) |
Disacare - Wheelchair manufacturing
| This video shows how Disacare makes a wheelchair, as well as some of the modifications they have invented in their shop | (RM - 56k)
(RM - 220k) | (MP4 - 79.6MB) |
Promotional and Demonstration Videos
These videos highlight the designs of various wheelchairs.
Promotional and demonstration videos| VIDEOS | SUMMARIES |
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Whirlwind's RoughRiderTM
(MOV - 10 MB)
(RM - 56k)
(RM - 220k) | This is a promotional video for Whirlwind's new chair, the RoughRider. (Courtesy of Whirlwind Wheelchair International. Used with permission.) |
TOTEM - Columbia-made RoughRider wheelchair
(RM - 56k)
(RM - 220k) | This is another promotional video for Whirlwind's RoughRider, as produced in Columbia. (Courtesy of Whirlwind Wheelchair International. Used with permission.) |
| Freedom Technology Tricycle Research | This video is awesome! Freedom Technology is a wheelchair workshop in the Philippines. They did great research into user needs and came up with some awesome designs. |
| Move With Freedom MORPH | Rory McCarthy, one of the mentors for the class, is developing a new handcycle that can morph between a low position for long rides and a high position for maneuvering indoors. Check out this video of the MORPH in action! |
Web Resources
Related resources table.| WEB RESOURCES | DESCRIPTIONS |
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| Google™ | If you have never used Google™, you probably grew up in a cave. It is the best search engine ever!!! |
| McMaster Carr | It's like a hardware store with 6.022X1023 different products. |
| How Stuff Works | How Stuff Works lives up to its name. It is the best resource for finding out how different technical things work. This Web site will serve as the class text. |
| Efunda | Good place to look up analysis that has to do with engineering. Forget what stress is? efunda can tell you all about it. |
| Wikipedia | Wikipedia is great for learning a small amount about anything. Want to know when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb? This is the place to go. |
| Matweb | Matweb is a great place to find material properties. They have information on just about any material you can imagine. |
| Math.com | This is a good place to look up mathematical concepts. You can quickly find things like common integrals or trig identities. |
| 2.007 | This is the MIT mechanical engineering department's introduction to mechanical design class. The lecture notes have are the best compilation of design principles I have ever seen. Students build robots for a class project (where do you think I got the idea for our class?). You can find some really ingenious technical solutions in some of the robots. |
| 2.744 | This is MIT's graduate product design class in mechanical engineering. It has many great links to other sites, and tells about the basics of product design. |
| Google™ Scholar | Google™ Scholar is an easy way to get academic articles for free. It works just like regular Google™. |
| USPTO | At the U.S. Patent office, you can search for any patent issued from the 1700's till now. Looking through patents generates good ideas, and prevents you from reinventing the wheel. If you are thinking of designing a protective carrying case for your banana, sorry, it already exists: U.S. Patent number 6918231 - Search on patent number. |
| Free Patent Fetcher | If you find a patent that looks sounds interesting, like a banana carrying case, Free Patent Fetcher is a really easy way to download it in pdf form. |
| World Bank | This Web site is a resource for all kinds of info, including general statistics for every country. |
| UNDP | The United Nations Development Programme Web site has many articles about development. |
| USAID | The United States Agency for International Development Web site is another resource with many articles about international development and disability. |
| Whirlwind Wheelchair International | The Whirlwind Wheelchair International Web site has many wheelchair related articles and links to other disability organizations. |
| Motivation | The Motivation Web site has many wheelchair related articles and links to other disability organizations. |
| ExtremePhoneCards | The "I Talk Africa" card is the best I have found for calling Kenya and TZ. It gives about $0.05/min to a land line and $0.20/min to a cell phone. |
| D-Lab | Our MIT international development friends in D-Lab have lots of information, case studies, and other resources on their Web page. Also see the OCW Web sites for D-Lab classes SP.721 and SP.722. |
| Disability KAR | The Disability Knowledge and Research Web site has tons of academic articles and other useful info about disability around the world. |
| Freedom Technology | This NGO in the Philippines makes some awesome mobility aids. Their two new tricycle models have very innovative designs (see this video). |