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Amos Winter: La silla de ruedas todo terreno de bajo costo.

Filmed Jun 2012 • Posted Nov 2012TEDxBoston 2012
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¿Como construir una silla de ruedas todo terreno por menos de 200 dolares? El ingeniero Amos Winter del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachussets nos guía a través de la mecánica de una silla de ruedas todo terreno que es barata y fácil de construir --para conseguir una verdadera accesibilidad-- y nos comparte lo que aprendió con este proyecto.

Amos Winter and his team at MIT built the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a cheap lever-powered wheelchair whose design and develop put the user first. Full bio »

Translated into Spanish by Mónica Bernal Rojo
Reviewed by Miguel Cisneros-Franco
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