Mouse Design League Projects

Mouse Design League members create and present their projects at local and national events. View the slideshow below to see pictures of the groups proudly presenting their projects!

Projects by Design League members to assist users with limited mobility to travel more safely and independently include:

• Adaptsacles: A mobile app that helps people with special needs on a daily basis by providing community-contributed information about travel obstacles ahead of time. Save time and effort by planning better with more accurate geo-information
• Roly-Poly: A stylish, compact, weather-resistant wheelchair add-on that offers users protection from poor weather conditions, such as rain, snow, or excessive sunlight. It is lightweight, and features a folding mechanism that can easily be attached and detached from the wheelchair.
• Lazer Lane Builder: an assistive wheelchair attachment that allows wheelchair users to have the space they need to travel on busy streets by alerting pedestrians of their presence
• Locus: a wearable add-on designed to increase the freedom and independence of people, especially those with communication limitations and non-verbal disabilities while helping their family, teachers, or personal aids find their location via GPS and SMS texting
• Gap-Assist: A wheelchair attachment designed to help wheelchair users get over various gaps such as those in the subway and curb cuts more easily. **Winner of Emoti-Con! 2014 Most Innovative
• Smart-Chair: An attachment to wheelchairs that can detect objects and the wheelchair's distance from the object to help user travel more safely
• Your Path: A mobile application tracks the path of blind and visually impaired users to their destination, notifies user of street landmarks (trashcans, bus stops, mailbox, etc…), and directs the user back the same path

Projects by Design League members to assist users with limited mobility to express their thoughts in various ways such as art include:

• Speak-EZ: a mobile and computer app designed to bridge the communication gap between people who are deaf or hearing impaired and people who do not speak sign language
• 1derphone: a custom designed pair of headphones created for a DJ with Cerebral Palsy to provide equal access to music for those with limitations in hand mobility
• Artillo: A pillow device to make digital art more accessible for users with motor disabilities to draw with head/neck movement
• Omni-Palette: An assistive art-making tool designed to help people with Cerebral Palsy or any other kind of limited mobility paint with more independence and ease. It is a robotic palette with partially-enclosed cups for paint that sits on a small stand that rotates at the push of a button, making it possible for users with limited mobility to easily reach the colors they need and wash their brushes between colors, without fear of spills. **Winner of Emoti-Con! 2014 Best Pitch
• JoyPix: Bringing the simplicity of photography to those with Cerebral Palsy with a customized case and swing arm clamp for attaching to wheelchair
• ART^2: Assistive Remote-controlled Technological ART is a device modelled after 3D printers that paints for an artist with limited mobility, and is controlled through the use of a joystick **Winner of Emoti-Con! 2013 Point of View

Projects by Design League members to provide users with different gaming and/or technology experiences include:

• Joy to the Key: A one-handed joystick with a team made virtual keyboard that can serve as an alternative mouse and keyboard to help those with limited mobility type and use a computer with more ease
• Omni-Joy: an accessible, portable game controller designed to make playing games more fun and social for all users, and more usable for people with limited mobility
• Game-Ability: a customized game controller designed to model after the joystick on mechanical wheelchairs for
• AbleRacer: A modified game steering wheel with various different sensors to offer users with limited mobility to an easily approach to "reaching that 'A' button"

Projects by Design League members to provide users with simpler dining and cooking experiences include:

• The One Board: A cutting board that can easily hold food in place, to make home cooking more accessible for users with one hand **Honorable Mention for Most Innovative at Emoti-Con 2018
• Mixing Buddy: A hacked, counter top-mounted kitchen mixer, with an accessible switch for users with Cerebral Palsy - or other mobility challenges - to control by touching two fingers together **Winner of Emoti-Con! 2013 Most Innovative and Crowd Favorite
• Dining Band: A wrist-mounted distance and temperature sensor device with vibration motor that helps people who are blind or visually impaired discreetly locate food on their plate as they are eating **Winner of Emoti-Con! 2012 Best Pitch and Crowd Favorite

Projects by Design League members to assist users with disabilities to complete daily tasks more easily include:

Daily tasks include cleaning, storing and accessing personal items, putting on clothing, and etc.

• R2L - Wheel Wiping Wherever: a mechanical device that attaches to the back of a wheelchair and can extend down to clean dirt, dust and water off it's wheels on the go
• Electra-Wallet: a device designed to help those with limited motor skills to easily access their credit cards, metro cards, and more without having to manipulate zippers or buttons or card slots
• Salvaje Adaptable Clothing: a line of jackets and other clothing designed for people with limited mobility and people in wheelchairs to allow them to put on and take off their outer layers with more ease **Winner of Emoti-Con! 2017 Point of View
• Panda's Box: a joystick controlled assistive wheelchair attachment allowing users with limited mobility to easily access small personal items without manipulating complicated mechanisms such as zippers ** Winner of Emoti-Con! 2016 Best Pitch and Crowd Favorite
• Shoe-levator: A small platform with levering mechanism that allows wheelchair users to put on their shoes at a customizable angle in which they will comfortable in without the need to modify their seating position
• RemoteVac: A remote joystick controlled vacuum cleaner that allows a user with Cerebral Palsy to clean with more ease
• Extend-an-Arm: An extendable claw attachment to crutches that will allow users to be able to pick up items on the floor without releasing their crutches and bending down
• The Fashionator: A mobile application designed to help the blind and the visually impaired finalize decision on the appropriate dress for certain occasions and find corresponding clothing in their close. Ultimately helping them feel less self-concious in public, but it can also help people with no or very little fashion sense to choose their clothes so they won't become a clown in public