Tag Archives: Hand-Pedaled Trike

Speaking Opportunities This Week

  By AT | February 19, 2014 - 11:08 pm |
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Alice began the week with 3 His Wheels Speaking engagements scheduled for the year. But by tomorrow afternoon it will be 4 for the week. Yesterday HWI had a Skype meeting with 6 Jr. Engineering students at Taylor University. Today Alice did a pre-recorded broadcast with WBEZ. Public Radio Chicago that will air tomorrow during the 12:30P-1:00P hour. Tomorrow AM Kevin and Alice will Skype again with the Engineering students about project ideas they have come up with for the trike. Tomorrow Alice also is the ministry practitioner speaking for a History and Philosophy of Christian Education class at Wheaton College.

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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Follow Up from Taylor University Visit

  By AT | February 12, 2014 - 11:35 pm |
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Here is one very exciting thing that came from His Wheels International’s trip to Taylor University in December. John, a 13 year old friend of HWI, an engineering guru, who lives in Upland and who attended the December meeting was able to audit a January Engineering course at Taylor. Here is a HWI video that John did for us.

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

Olivet Nazarene University’s Sr. Student Report

  By AT | October 24, 2013 - 7:49 pm |
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Here is the problem statement that four senior engineering students at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) will work to solve over the next school year.

His Wheels has worked endlessly to improve its current trike model to be as user-friendly, cost-efficient, durable, and safe as possible. Though the hand-pedaled model serves a plethora of disabled people internationally, it still falls short in being able to mobilize quadriplegic or fully paralyzed clients. Due to a significant lack of funding, prior research regarding this topic has been primitive. Our group has thus been tasked with researching and developing a prototype and working model of an EEG technology which will power a visually evoked trike. The working trike should be able to mobilize fully paralyzed passengers based upon neurological, or electrochemical, cues. (more…)

Three State Trike Tour!

  By AT | October 24, 2013 - 7:10 pm |
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Last week Kevin, our engineer and Alice went on a three College/University tour. On Monday, Oct. 14th we met with Spring Arbor University (SAU) Faculty in Michigan. We were joined by a business school professor from Immanuel University’s (Hyderabad, India) new master’s in business program.

Then on Oct. 15th we traveled on to Anderson University (AU) located in Anderson, Indiana. (more…)

Olivet—Engineer Meet

  By AT | September 15, 2013 - 12:51 am |
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by Ife Alade
(Journalism Intern from Roosevelt University)

On Friday, Sept. 13, His Wheels Int’l took a road trip to Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais for a visit with the Engineering Department, and a meeting with its students.

Upon their arrival at the Reed Hall of Science Founder Alice Teisan and His wheels engineer, Kevin, were welcomed by Engineering Professors Ken Johnson and Mario Sanders. (more…)