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Olivet Nazarene University Trike Project Update

  By AT | February 12, 2014 - 11:42 pm |
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This update is from January 31, 2014. “ONU His Wheels Team has been making some progress after our long break.
Over the past 2 weeks, Ben and Britny have met a few times to take measurements of the trike to see where parts have room to be placed (i.e. motors, batteries, wiring, circuit board), and have designed a hopefully simple design for these. We have detached the hand pedals and the chain to free up the front end and are making plans to cut the front end soon to transform this into a caster wheel.
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A Look Back at 2013

  By AT | January 22, 2014 - 10:40 pm |
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Here is a copy of the most recent His Wheels International update. You can read of all the opportunities we had in 2013. January 2014 Letter

Trike to Taylor University Today

  By AT | December 5, 2013 - 10:00 pm |
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Today Kevin, our engineer traveled to Taylor University for a University Trike Consortium introductory meeting. Alice was present via Skype due to health issues. Thanks to Dr. C. Brainer, our host, he set up three meetings for HWI. First there was lunch with 4 engineering professors and 3 Wandering Wheels team members. The engineers stayed about 45 min. longer than planned and had many great brainstorming ideas. Next was the Enactus business club faculty member and then on to meet with the short term mission trip coordinator. What an amazing day. Please pray for God’s direction as the faculty continue to contemplate and pray about possibilities with HWI.

Cutie is Off to Another University

  By AT | August 16, 2013 - 10:58 pm | ,
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Cutie is the nickname we’ve given our compact trike. Today Kevin, Alice and Cutie went for a meeting at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) in Bourbannais, IL. We met with two Mechanical Engineering Faculty members about having 3 senior engineering students use the trike for a senior project.The idea is to look at neuro-engineering and how a quadriplegic could maneuver a trike by EEG brain wave activities.

We dropped Cutie off and here is Cutie’s new home and new roommates

It’s possible that Cutie will outsmart any of us at HWI before the year is over if the trike hangs out with this team. We are excited to see the road Cutie takes at ONU. Kevin and Alice will return the 2nd week of September to meet with students and to answer any questions they might have at the time.

God is up to something and we at HWI are along for the ride.