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So, I've been on the Instructables.com mailing list for a few years, now, which means I get a newsletter in my email every Thursday with links to specific projects that they're promoting that week. Today, I opened the email and saw this lovely offering first on the list.
Psycho Scooter Scramble is a blind-driving electric wheelchair game. It consists of two riders, strapped into electric wheelchairs, and two blindfolded pilots, who remotely control the wheelchairs from the sidelines based on information given over headset by their driver.
The basic mechanic is simple: players must drive across the court to get a ball from a stand, then drive back across to put the ball in a hoop. This action is repeated until all four balls have been scored or the timer runs out.
Since there is an inevitable disconnect between the pilots’ steering and their teammates’ intentions, wheelchairs zigzag across the court at high speeds, colliding with each other, ball stands, the scoreboard, and most everything else; all the while, taking full advantage of the custom steel bumpers.
Required equipment includes two (2) fully functioning motorized wheelchairs for the hacker to fiddle with their electronic control systems.
I spent a good bit of time debating whether or not to leave a snarky comment, like:
"So -- have you asked people who actually need to use motorized wheelchairs every day to play this game with you, or are they just big toys, as far as you're concerned?"
But in the end, I decided that that audience is one that just would not hear me, and it wasn't worth the spoons required. So I'm cranking here, instead.
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*The thing is: I need more than instructions. I need a proper work space, and someone with the dexterity and ability that I don't have to carry out the instructions, neither of which are available. So, after this, I'm seriously considering unsubscribing.
Psycho Scooter Scramble is a blind-driving electric wheelchair game. It consists of two riders, strapped into electric wheelchairs, and two blindfolded pilots, who remotely control the wheelchairs from the sidelines based on information given over headset by their driver.
The basic mechanic is simple: players must drive across the court to get a ball from a stand, then drive back across to put the ball in a hoop. This action is repeated until all four balls have been scored or the timer runs out.
Since there is an inevitable disconnect between the pilots’ steering and their teammates’ intentions, wheelchairs zigzag across the court at high speeds, colliding with each other, ball stands, the scoreboard, and most everything else; all the while, taking full advantage of the custom steel bumpers.
Required equipment includes two (2) fully functioning motorized wheelchairs for the hacker to fiddle with their electronic control systems.
I spent a good bit of time debating whether or not to leave a snarky comment, like:
"So -- have you asked people who actually need to use motorized wheelchairs every day to play this game with you, or are they just big toys, as far as you're concerned?"
But in the end, I decided that that audience is one that just would not hear me, and it wasn't worth the spoons required. So I'm cranking here, instead.
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*The thing is: I need more than instructions. I need a proper work space, and someone with the dexterity and ability that I don't have to carry out the instructions, neither of which are available. So, after this, I'm seriously considering unsubscribing.