The cheap all-terrain wheelchair

Name: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
Uploaded: 2012-11-20T16:02:37Z
Duration: 10 min 57 s
Description: 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.

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Amos Winter |

TEDxBoston 2012

• June 2012

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.

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