Eye-Driven Wheelchair Gives Quadriplegics More Independence
From: R&D Magazine - 11/09/2017
By: Laura Panjwani

The Eyedrivomatic - an add-on system that turns any electric wheelchair into
a gaze-controlled wheelchair - was created to give those with ALS, and other
quadriplegics, a little bit of their independence back.

In 2015, the Eyedrivomatic won the Hackaday Prize, a yearly US-based
engineering initiative designed to challenge inventors to build something
that matters and changes lives.

The device is a two part system - a 'brain box', containing an Arduino Uno
microprocessor and four relays, and a 3D-printed "electronic hand,"
containing servos to move the wheelchair's joystick.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/11/eye-driven-wheelchair-gives-quadriplegics-more-independence

Links:
Eyedrivomatic (with video 2:39)
https://www.eyedrivomatic.org

Eyedrivomatic Wins the 2015 Hackaday Prize
https://hackaday.com/2015/11/14/eyedriveomatic-wins-the-2015-hackaday-prize

The Gaze-Controlled Wheelchair that Won the Hackaday Prize
https://hackaday.com/2015/11/17/the-gaze-controlled-wheelchair-that-won-the-hackaday-prize

Eye Controlled Wheelchair!
https://hackaday.io/project/5426-eye-controlled-wheelchair

Eyedriveomatic Acceptance Speech for 2015 Hackaday Prize (video 1:02)
https://youtu.be/FMYxZpWykas

Eyedrivomatics’ Hackaday Prize Finals Video (9:06)
https://youtu.be/XjWIEYt1SRw