Adapting Toys

I have adapted over 100 toys!

Joystick Adapted Toys

Click above to see how I used joysticks to adapt toys!

Close up of the Proccess

To the left you can see a few shots of various toy internals. And below you can see a photo of many toys partially through the adapting process.

Button Adapted Toys

I opened up a ton of toys and soldered a 3.5mm jack onto them so that they can be plugged into anyone's button and accessed by many children who would otherwise be unable to play with these toys. For example, if someone can only slightly move their head, they can't interact with regular toys, however they can activate a button. By attaching a jack, which can be plugged into any of OUSD's buttons, many more kids are able to play with these toys.

Here are a bunch more toys that I adapted!

Homemade Electric Bell Toy

I took a toy bell and motorized it so it can be button controlled.

Adapted Bear Toy with Button

For Older Kids

I adapted 3 wiffle ball shooters so that kids with special needs can participate in PE with their regularly developing classmates. I also adapted a potato peeler so that these kids can help out around the house.

I recieved two very large loads of toys pictured below and adapted all of them. I did a very bad job documenting it so to the left is an itemized list of the toys.

5 Fans and 1 of all other pictured toys.

The following toys are controlled using joysticks instead of buttons.

Joystick Designs

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