WELCOME TO OPEN SOURCE WHEELCHAIRS
There's a heavy focus in the DME industry on selling primarily expensive/medicalized/utilitarian/low performance wheelchairs and other mobility solutions . Therefore, we promote the DIY creation of inexpensive wheelchairs and adaptive mobility devices using locally available materials.
Occupation: Real Estate, Small Business, Nonprofit, and Consulting.
Mobility Innovations:
The development of the concept of Wheelchairboarding which entails riding and controlling a mobility device using a wheelchair wheelie. The innovation of devices for wheelchair skateboarding, longboarding, landboarding, snowboarding, scooterboarding, and skimboarding. Numberous designs of DIY wheelchairs and adaptive mobility devices.
Wheelchair-User for over 40 years due to a spinal cord injury at age 19. Extensive experience with a wide variety of mobility devices.