The Mountain Wheelchair project is no longer active. Seeing Ada stand up again for the first time, I turned my focus away from building the wheelchair to instead helping Ada to build up her health. She is still in a lot of pain and struggles on a daily basis, but... She has returned to school and achieved many A's/A*s in her GCSEs, takes "Outdoor Recreation" as one of her subjects, and is currently attending the Duke of Edinburgh Award. To top it off, she has since walked up the highest mountains in England, Wales, and Scotland!
As for myself, my energies are now going into delivering outdoor activities for Climb Wales where I get to help other young people (as well as adults) get out and enjoy the great outdoors. Primarily based in Snowdonia, North Wales, we work as mountain guides and also deliver a number of outdoor courses, such as:
Finally, a big thank you to everybody who supported the project. It gave Ada (and myself) hope, something to look forward to, when times were very dark.
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Just a quick update; I’ve sat and worked out how I’m going to mount the wheels and sprockets for the large scale prototype and think I’ll be able to 3D print the parts I need.
When I showed Ada the wheels earlier, she immediately asked if we could paint them purple. So with a touch of Purple, here’s a scale drawing of what the next prototype will look like:
Ada’s been told that if she sits on top with a hammer then we can enter her into Robot Wars!