How to Build a Motorized Wheelchair for Kids! - Easy!

okay now we have the accelerator wired up to this button Canberra do you want to see if it works so he's about to see the car for the first time we're gonna bring him in here he doesn't quite know he's gonna get it yet it's pretty incredible while the technology they're in these toys these days [Music] there are 300,000 children in the u.s. from birth to 3 years old that could benefit from a wheelchair but wheelchairs are super expensive anywhere from ten to twenty five thousand dollars and the kids grow out of the wheelchairs so quickly that it's hard to financially support that but I think we found a solution that's pretty cool and very cost effective let's get started so this is a little electric toy G that we got off Amazon for about a hundred and fifty bucks today we're gonna give it to a little kid who has something called Chrome Oh thrips as' which means he has some cognitive and physical delays making it harder for him to you know keep up with his friends on the playground which is pretty important when you're a kid so in order for us to make it easier for him to drive around we're gonna move the electric accelerator pedal up to the steering wheel so there's less coordination required when he's driving around everything is right there next to his hands luckily there's lots of different styles of electric vehicles jeeps just happened to be as favorites what we decided to go with so it's actually a lot easier than you think to move the accelerator up to the steering wheel which we haven't installed yet the pedal has some plastic Clips at the bottom with two wires it's a simple switch there spade bit connectors which you can buy pretty much anywhere any local hardware store electronics store so since the accelerator is a simple switch we're just gonna add another simple switch to the steering wheel which is this giant red button the switch right now has a headphone jack I never thought I'd say this but in order to remove the headphone jack we're just gonna cut it off and add the same common spade bit connectors to the ends of these two wires since the button is gonna be mounted right here on the steering wheel we're gonna drill a small hole right there underneath the dashboard route the wires underneath to the accelerator pedal that way the kids feet won't get tangled up in anything and it looks cleaner okay now we have the accelerator wired up to this button Canberra do you want to see if it works perfect now that we finished adapting the acceleration we can add the steering wheel and just finished assembling the Jeep you know as a normal Jeep this is one of the simplest modifications that we can do to one of these vehicles and I'll show you some of the more complicated bills in a second let's get this finished snaps it what does it snap in like game snaps oh snaps I don't like it I thought I had her trained not yet as you've probably realized at this point the accelerator switch can be moved basically anywhere on the vehicle since the switch is pretty Universal and be mounted anywhere he likes dinosaurs and Jeeps so we're gonna customize his Jeep and do a little paint job with these dinosaur stickers yeah one shot most these vehicles have a weight limit between 40 and 60 pounds which is the perfect size for a kid so if we take a look underneath the hood here this has dual motors one for each of the rear tires but the cool part is that since this has a remote control there's also a motor for the power steering and because of that power steering or the remote steering it makes it easy to install a joystick which gives even more options for controller so the great thing about these vehicles is that it gives the kids something of their own something they can use to keep up with their peers or explore their surroundings these cars aren't just used to assist with mobility but they can also be used on a therapeutic side of things the whole thing functions with this little tiny switch this is what's inside that giant red button and that button can be placed anywhere I'm gonna have cambrie show you on this little motorcycle thing so with this toy the button is reversed in that if a child sits on it it kills the switch so the child has to stand up to use it and now it's a toy that also helps strengthen the leg muscles and it motivates the child to stand this car has been modified to help a child with grip strength this same little tiny switch is right here inside of the grip so that the child has to use his grip strength to get the car to move instead of the large button or the foot pedal basically is tricking the children into developing their muscles by using toys remember there's 300 thousand kids that couldn't benefit from something like this this vehicle for instance has a back support on it so if the child has a difficult time with stability they can encourage the child to sit upright push the button with their back or their head and propel forward the cool thing about the roll cage or the support structure is that three-quarter inch PVC fits perfectly inside of a pool noodle so you get the padded protection around the plastic so as you can see the options are pretty unlimited there's a lot of different cars out there and different ways you can modify them for you know the kids specific needs so he's about to see the car for the first time we're gonna bring him in here he doesn't quite know he's gonna get it yet luckily cambrie here has a little remote control so she can remotely operate the vehicle we'll see if he likes it you ready cambrie yeah okay look through the viewfinder what about something else yeah [Applause] [Music] [Music] he knows what to do [Music] [Music] yeah geez can I ride your car you can always build one of these on your own I'll leave all the part that we use today down the video description but there's also an organization called go baby go and we've decided to donate 10 cars to kids through this organization that gives them away for free go baby go has chapters all across the United States I'll leave their link is well down in the video description so if you or someone you know needs one of these cars for a kid you can always reach out if you have any questions leave them down in the comments coming out with us on Instagram and Twitter and things stuff for watching we'll see you around [Music] [Applause]

Channel: JerryRigEverything

Views: 1,890,384

Keywords: Child wheelchair, wheelchair, disabilities, disabled, gobabygo, go baby go, how to build wheelchair, Cole Galloway, cerebral palsy, wheel chair, toy for disabled, handicapped

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Length: 7min 53sec (473 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 23 2019