{"id":153806,"date":"2022-12-29T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/israeli-teens-3d-printed-kit-motorizes-a-plain-wheelchair"},"modified":"2022-12-29T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:22:42","slug":"israeli-teens-3d-printed-kit-motorizes-a-plain-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/israeli-teens-3d-printed-kit-motorizes-a-plain-wheelchair","title":{"rendered":"Israeli teens\u2019 3D-printed kit motorizes a plain wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bUUqksXlocs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of about 30 teenage robotics enthusiasts in Ra\u2019anana recently unveiled a 3D-printed kit that transforms a standard $500 wheelchair into the equivalent of a $2,500 electronic wheelchair with enhanced maneuverability and powerful braking.<\/p>\n<p>The add-on doesn\u2019t interfere with the chair\u2019s folding mechanism and is easily removed, so it can be attached to a rented wheelchair that must be returned in its original condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of about 30 teenage robotics enthusiasts in Ra\u2019anana recently unveiled a 3D-printed kit that transforms a standard $500 wheelchair into the equivalent of a $2,500 electronic wheelchair with enhanced maneuverability and powerful braking. The add-on doesn\u2019t interfere with the chair\u2019s folding mechanism and is easily removed, so it can be attached to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}