Project description
Background: Purple House has many clients with mobility issues. These clients depend on four-wheeled “walkers” to move through life. These walkers are relatively inexpensive and do not work well on uneven ground, while the higher-end walkers tend to be prohibitively expensive. The project: To design and develop a set of low-cost modifications to low-cost walkers to enable them to use brakes on all four wheels and otherwise improve their safety and performance in harsh and remote environments.
Co-supervisors
David Hobbs Michael Smith, Purple House
Assumed knowledge
Mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering design
Industry involvement
Purple House is an innovative Indigenous-owned and run health service operating from its base in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Purple House provides dialysis in the most remote parts of Australia, operating 18 remote clinics and a mobile dialysis unit called the Purple Truck.
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