I need some help for what will be part of an assignment.
I've already come up with the idea of a restraint of sort - a device that is a lockable reel wiith a retractable belt that can be retrofit onto a current chopping board to restrain whatever is required by having clips on the reel housing and end of belt.
I've came up with all sorts of ideas to aid cleaning the item and also different cross sections of belts to aid holdingg different shaped objects. I know it isn't the best of ideas but when your task is to design something to assist independance for disabled there isn't much that hasn't already been done to death and then some more.
I've already thought of flipping the reel 90° and having it clip into an adjustable clamp for worktops and the belt looping and clipping into the reel so that it can tighten and hold jars, but my idea doesn't seem that great when you actually google one handed chopping boards and jar openers and see what is on offer at the prices they are offering; so I'm trying to broaden my market by thinking of a means to use my device outside of a chopping board / jar perspective.
tldr: Mechanism kinda like a seat belt, with clips on the mechanism and end of the belt to clip onto things and be flipped/supported 90°, and where mechanism can tighen enough to restrain the object. Need ideas of things it could restrain for one handed person activities or just activities a one handed person would struggle with.
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I've already come up with the idea of a restraint of sort - a device that is a lockable reel wiith a retractable belt that can be retrofit onto a current chopping board to restrain whatever is required by having clips on the reel housing and end of belt.
I've came up with all sorts of ideas to aid cleaning the item and also different cross sections of belts to aid holdingg different shaped objects. I know it isn't the best of ideas but when your task is to design something to assist independance for disabled there isn't much that hasn't already been done to death and then some more.
I've already thought of flipping the reel 90° and having it clip into an adjustable clamp for worktops and the belt looping and clipping into the reel so that it can tighten and hold jars, but my idea doesn't seem that great when you actually google one handed chopping boards and jar openers and see what is on offer at the prices they are offering; so I'm trying to broaden my market by thinking of a means to use my device outside of a chopping board / jar perspective.
tldr: Mechanism kinda like a seat belt, with clips on the mechanism and end of the belt to clip onto things and be flipped/supported 90°, and where mechanism can tighen enough to restrain the object. Need ideas of things it could restrain for one handed person activities or just activities a one handed person would struggle with.
http://mmc-manuals.ru/manuals/l200_2006/online/Service_Manual/img/00/AC100083AC00ENG.png