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Podcast: The IoT Show
Episode: The Mobility Independence Foundation
Description:
Did you know that a motorized medical wheelchair costs $20K and up, and that maintaining it is not just expensive, but a real challenge?
The Mobility Independence Foundation (https://www.themif.org) seeks to create open source hardware and software designs to address the many problems that Durable Medical Equipment users are facing. This kind of equipment, such as wheelchairs are not that durable, and users who are dependent on them have to deal with expensive, complex and long repairs, inexistant or hard to get replacement parts and inability to fix the equipment themselves not to void warrantees and...