Market Stand Costume for Assistive Equipment

Market Stand Costume for Assistive Equipment - open-source assistive technology product by the TOM Israel community community

About this project

Although there are some adaptive clothing costumes on the market for individuals with disabilities, there remains a lack of options including assistive equipment and technologies such as wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers in the design. This lack of inclusion often leaves users feeling segregated from peers. This is an adaptive, customizable costume for use with assistive equipment. It was originally designed to be a market stand, however, it can, and is encouraged to be, used as a base template for any costume you might imagine!

The challenge

Although there are some adaptive clothing costumes on the market for individuals with disabilities, there remains a lack of options including assistive equipment and technologies such as wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers in the design. This lack of inclusion often leaves users feeling segregated from peers.

Who it helps

This costume design and assembly approach was created to enable and empower wheelchair users of all sizes and ages to enjoy dressing up without feeling left out or limited!

How it works

This product is accessible to the public thanks to TOM's partnership with Poalim for the Community.

What

This is an adaptive, customizable costume for use with assistive equipment. It was originally designed to be a market stand, however, it can, and is encouraged to be, used as a base template for any costume you might imagine!

Please share with us any new designs you come up with!

Why

Who

This costume design and assembly approach was created to enable and empower wheelchair users of all sizes and ages to enjoy dressing up without feeling left out or limited! In fact, we believe that wheelchair users have an advantage - an amazing base for an awesome structure! So this guide is how to make a wheelchair part of a costume :)

How

This costume is more a guiding template than a single-directed-use design. It includes multiple components intended to be independently attached to the user’s wheelchair and uses basic square materials such as cardboard and zip ties to enable size and aesthetic personalization while remaining affordable.

Bill of materials - please see detailed BOM {optional: and laser cutting files} in the downloadable product file.

Estimated time to make

Cutting Parts:

0.5 Hours - if using laser cutter machine

1 Hour - if manually tracing & cutting

Assembly:

1.5 Hours

Project details

The build files for Market Stand Costume for Assistive Equipment are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.

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