Archive for September 2014

When I got powered up

So there has been some progress on the power chair front. The other week I went to try out the Alber Emotion, Twion and E-Fix options to see how they worked. I liked how the Emotion and Twions felt but it did take me a lot of concentration to move in a straight line. If you have good coordination they are probably good options but for me I could only move a little faster than I can without them. It's a lot easier to move about though I couldn't use all the power available since I couldn't control it.

Twions (click for site)

emotion (click for site)

For me the e-fix it's a good option. I'm not sure if it's suitable for my chair. If it is I'll get that. If it isn't I'll try to make something similar to it!

My wife got a Power Chair (the first one above) which was only possible because of the donations. So thanks again to people who donated.

... I found a website wheelchairdriver.com and having spent a while looking at powerchairs available on the market I came to the same conclusion. So I'm going to try to build two BM3 chairs somehow, someday.