Toy Designed to Pool Physiotherapy of Kids with Special Needs
INDUSTRY: Education
SKILLS: Makers, Rapid Prototyping
AWARDS: Alyn Innovation Center, TOM Makeathon 2016
PRESS: Times of Israel, 2017
DESIGN:
The ball gives auditory and visual feedback when pushed. It also adapts to the strength of the push, and thus motivates the kid to push harder.
Prototype based on Intel Curie. It is all open sourced in Github.
Understanding Therapy. Understanding Limitations. Motivating Patient. Connecting It All.
BUSINESS:
Created by a group of Intel engineers for Alyn Children Hospital for disabled, during a hackathon called TOM Global (Tikkun Olam Makeathon).
This project led for a long-lasting relationship between Intel Israel and Alyn Innovation center. In 2017 we organized a 2 days internal makeathon in Intel Israel. The Times of Israel newspaper reviewed it in this article.
ALYN + Intel makeathon resulted in a robot device that follows the patient. That robot acts as a mobile cart to carry extra equipment.
In the pic, wearing a black shirt is an intel engineer installing the robot carrier, before it goes to follow the patient in wheel chair. 2017
In the pic, wearing a black shirt is an intel engineer installing the robot carrier, before it goes to follow the patient in wheel chair. 2017
