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University disability project on gardening tools

Dear all,
I am a university student in the second year of my product design course.
In my last project of the year, I have been asked to look into gardening tools and ways of making them more user-friendly.
However, instead of just making something better just by looks, I would prefer to improve it in order for everyone to use them.
I have to design a gardening tool( such as a lawn mower), but am not aware of the different necessities to make this task easier.
My initial idea would be to make a mount in which wheelchairs could attach to the lawn mower.
Please give me your opinions or ideas.
Kind regards,
Really thankful.
I am a university student in the second year of my product design course.
In my last project of the year, I have been asked to look into gardening tools and ways of making them more user-friendly.
However, instead of just making something better just by looks, I would prefer to improve it in order for everyone to use them.
I have to design a gardening tool( such as a lawn mower), but am not aware of the different necessities to make this task easier.
My initial idea would be to make a mount in which wheelchairs could attach to the lawn mower.
Please give me your opinions or ideas.
Kind regards,
Really thankful.
Replies
I'm a wheelchair user and would find it impossible to operate a lawn mower
How could you get it out of shed ?
How could you control mower and propel chair at same time
Wheelchairs if manual are no good on grass
Just a few points
Is there any idea or suggestion you might have that could prove more usefull or of easier access?
To solve the mobility problem I would integrate a knid of ramp on the front partof the lawn mower thru which the wheel chair woulg go up and stabelize itself on top of the motor blade. the same motor tha powers the blade would power the wheels, and turning would be made by braking a wheel on the side correspondent to the turn.
Therefore the wheelchair would become just a sitting object, not a moble one. The one mobile would be the lawn mower.
Is there any idea or suggestion you might have that could prove more usefull or of easier access?
@janer1967 how do you think this idea could be tweaked to make it better so that it could possibly work
To solve the mobility problem I would integrate a knid of ramp on the front partof the lawn mower thru which the wheel chair woulg go up and stabelize itself on top of the motor blade. the same motor tha powers the blade would power the wheels, and turning would be made by braking a wheel on the side correspondent to the turn.
Therefore the wheelchair would become just a sitting object, not a moble one. The one mobile would be the lawn mower.
Is there any idea or suggestion you might have that could prove more usefull or of easier access?
Ramps are not always useful dependant on gradient of ramp
I have seen advertised like a robot mower which would be better rather than a wheelchair sitting mower
Also like I said how would a person in wheelchair get thr mower into the garden from storage
Since a lawnmower is really low to the ground, the gradient of the ramp would not have to be more than 5 degrees.
I am trying to sell the experience while at the same time selling a sollution which is cheaper than the robot lawnmowers, which become quite pricey due to all its technology, and rather small deposit.
Regarding the storege, this lawn mower would have to be easily accessible( not behind a lot of things), and due to its motor, it would be able to move freely around.
I'm not saying there isnt a workaround but it us very hard to do this sort of thing without assistance and if you have assistance they may as well cut the grass for you
Try a wheelchair out and see the restrictions it has
As @janer1967 said there is then how would it be stored if your a person in a wheel chair cant stand up
As I said I think its a good idea initially needs a bit of tweaking ti get it right
I will give some more thought to it and let you know
I intend to make it accessible to the whole market.
I would suggest the best research you can do is to put yourself in the position of the intended user