Maker Skills

Like general product design, designing products in assistive technology use cases can involve a wide variety of skills. A new wheelchair design might require knowing mechanical engineering. A more accessible website might need some CSS tinkering. A wearable activity monitoring device might require knowing how to sew, and so on. Because many AT projects require a fair amount of customization, designing and fabricating AT projects has a lot in common with the Maker Movement.

In this section, we present some of the skills and resources that you might find useful. Don't feel the need to go through all of these sections, but rather, pick and choose what you think is most interesting and useful.

Please complete two sections that are most relevant to your project.

If you find that your project covers something quite different from what is in these sections, and you would like additional resources, please ask on the Discord!