A first Look at the Morphing Wheelchair

Below is an email between Alan Ball, our industrial designer, and Rory McCarthy. This is a very early sketch of the Morphing Wheelchair. The drawing shows the various seating postions that are desired. It goes from 30" bar stool height, to about 6" off the floor to get on the ground. In between is a high speed cruise height of about 17". At the extreme high end, is a 34" "reach mode."

More later on this, and look for its own blog at morphwc.posterous.com

From: Alan Ball <alball@abidstudio.com>
Date: January 8, 2009 9:17:41 AM EST
To: Rory McCarthy <rorymcc@gwi.net>
Cc: Bill Warner <bill@warnerresearch.com>
Subject: Fwd: mode overlay



Begin forwarded message:

From: Alan Ball <alball@abidstudio.com>
Date: January 8, 2009 9:16:41 AM EST
To: Rory McCarthy <rorymcc@gwi.net>
Subject: mode overlay

Hi Rory,

Check out this photoshop document. I have overlaid all of the modes we discussed yesterday.

Any luck finding the Solidworks human you mentioned?

Alan

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