Some parts...

So after looking at what we really wanted to do, we went ahead and are going to attempt to make a electric wheel chair. This project will of course incorporate the skills we have learned in lab like Solidworks and Arduino. So far for the project, we somewhat have a list of what we want to be apart of the project.

The unfinished list includes:

• We would like tires or wheels of some sort. So far we might be going with bicycle tires and regular caster wheels. As of right now, we are not too sure about where to position them. 
• A base or frame. Probably going to be using plywood in this case because it's cheap and strong enough to hold a good amount of weight.
• An axle
• To drive the wheels, we looked at different types of motors. We thought about using a gasoline motor at first, but then found out it would be rather difficult to wire it in with an Arduino. We ended up just going with a motor taken out from an old treadmill.
• A Power supply. Possibly using a car battery or some other source of power
• A lot of wiring
• Some type of control module
• A device that can control the movement of the wheel chair (Joystick or steering wheel of some sort) 

This is a very rough list of what we want to do, but hopefully we should have a much better list and some pictures to show for progress in the coming blog posts.