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ChairMobil

Living Room to Go

bernhard-hotkey-slawikBernhard "HotKey" Slawik
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This project was created on 06/25/2019 and last updated 7 years ago.

Description

Turning an electric wheel chair (Permobil C300) into a mobile living room :-)
As shown on the "Kurze Nacht der Kunst" on 22nd of September 2018 in Poing, Germany.

Technically speaking, it is an Arduino connected to a "VR2" wheel chair controller. The Arduino emulates the original joystick and therefore allows the use of a Wii controller for input.

And just for kicks, there are also some WS2812 LEDs to give it head and tail lights, indicators, as well as a cheesy standing lamp for that authentic grandma swag ;-)

The whole "chair" part has been designed in OpenSCAD and lasercut out of cheap MDF boards.

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VR2Control_20190206.zip

All the Arduino software you need to interface a VR2 wheel chair controller

Zip Archive - 2.21 MB - 08/06/2019 at 10:12

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vr2_protocol.txt

Reverse engineered information about the VR2 control protocol

plain - 2.36 kB - 08/06/2019 at 10:12

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markalexo1337 wrote 12/19/2020 at 19:53 • point

Wow amazing! 1 Week ago I purchased Massage Chair from https://allmassagechair.com/ and I loved it.

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