Low Cost IoT Door Opener for Disabled User

Bill Binko from ATMakers.org with some assistance from some FIRST Robotics teams have developed another great piece of assistive technology for a young girl with cerebral palsy. It is an IoT door opener that she activates with her eye tracking PRC tablet.

Uses and Adafruit M0 Wi-Fi feather, a small motor and some additional hardware. Total cost about $70 worth of parts and volunteer labor.

The video also shows how she uses the eye tracking tablet to speak commands to Alexa to operate her fire TV.

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1 Comment

  1. David Smith
    January 13, 2018 at 5:57 am

    Fantastic project and video. Her irrepressible happiness and excitement was a joy to see. A great reminder that, while we can sometimes affect others in a profound way with the smallest of gestures, technology allows us to amplify that effect.

    Makers. Fixing the problems the corporations missed, created or couldn’t monetize.

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