About this 3D model
Its a wheelchair for people that need one! I call it 'HU-GO' I am adding more parts daily. I have modelled most of it now. I have just started 3D printing the first bits. update 1: I have finished printing all the parts now (25th oct 2015 and the cutting of the MDF started today ( my jigsaw ability leaves a lot to be desired) update 2: I am printing one small wheel and if I have time I will print the other (28th oct 2015). update 3: arm for chair has been modified (the new one uses less material and quicker to print) I will leave the other file in case someone wants that one instead. update 4: I have almost finished (31st oct 2015), I learned how to do sewing today. So I did the cushions and the armrests. update 5: what next now that it is finished ?(Sunday 1st Nov 2015 Australia) update 6: Its fits in the back of my little car (so if it fits in a MINI then it fits in most cars(photo added to gallery) update 7: We have a very short youtube video here of the 3D printed wheelchair in action (dont mind my friends at work who are a little shy): http://youtu.be/9n2WbFhp-DU update 8: I am adding the sizes of nuts and washers I used for every connection(see photo added below). (the holes are bigger and could take a large bolt if you need to secure it more, but from my experience they are strong enough update 9: I have added more photos with a wide angle lens and much closer shots. update 10: Today I got a response from the Mens shed (a government organisation that helps men suffering depression and helps them with projects and company). update 11: I was contacted by a Sydney based Australian organisation today who have offered a lending hand. I have emailed Ikea foundation http://www.ikeafoundation.org/ to see if they would like to help me. We wait and see Dear Hugo Thank you very much for your interest in responding to the Village News article on Spring Hill Men's Shed. I am certain that your expertise in 3D printing would of worthwhile appeal to shed members. At this stage, however, we are not yet operating as a men's shed, but are still in the process of forming an incorporated organisation for the management of our shed. We do, at least have a venue for the shed, in the undercroft of the Bedford Park Community Hall in Love Street Spring Hill. I have noted your willingness to become involved, and will contact you again when we are about to have our next meeting. regards Rob Collins on behalf of the Men's Shed Spring Hill Management Committee. update 11: I have the sketches for the big wheel which i know know i can 3D print also. i am adding those sketches now!! UPDATE 12: THIS DESIGN HAS BEEN SHORTLISED FOR ANOTHER COMPETITION ORGANISED BY THESE GUYS (I THINK IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS)(12-15 TEAMS ONLY, I AM A TEAM OF ONE!) http://www.enablemakeathon.org/ Start by share it wherever you can and start printing it worldwide!!! Why not make it a school project. some kids can sew the seat covers, others in wood class can make the frame and others can 3D print the parts, the seniors could design it better! go on its for a great cause. I have contacted one school already near me to see if they would like to get a talk on 3D printing and its benefits from me free of charge (waiting for the school principal to call me back) then good things could start..... I hope I can make the deadline. (update....I made the deadline and we now have a fully made functional wheelchair anyone can put together) I decided to create this wheelchair because I have used one before due to my own illness, I was a Sydney 2000 Olympic volunteer and part of my job then was to help people that are a different kind of perfect move around the Olympic park. we even received training how to operate a wheelchair during the induction. I have been 3D printing many things and for many people over the last 3 years and I think is time I begin to design/make something for a noble cause. So, I thought I should pay it forward and create one that anyone in the world could make and assemble with a very common cheap parts. I visited my country of Birth Chile a few months ago and I saw first hand how 3D printed parts for different kind of perfect people could transform their lives but sadly they didnt know where to go to get their needs met or that it could be very cheap. I strongly Believe that everyone in the world deserves to be able to move about and a wheelchair should not be a luxury item for the few/well off. It should be a tool that anyone should have access to use. So, I am accepting this challenge with the 'hugo' version 1.0 Version 2.0 will have 3D printed wheels/ and or hubs also but due to the deadline I will leave it for later. I only found this competition yesterday (19th of October 2015) so I am busily trying to get it all done in time. Wish me luck! I am spending all of my spare time with this project. This is a lovely thing a friend does for a mate but it should not have to be this hard!! http://laughingsquid.com/chinese-stud