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The cheap all-terrain wheelchair

Amos Winter · TED

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About

How do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200? MIT engineer Amos Winter guides us through the mechanics of an all-terrain wheelchair that's cheap and easy to build -- for true accessibility -- and gives us some lessons he learned along the road.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxBoston 2012
Speaker
Amos Winter
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Engineering, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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