A team of interdisciplinary engineering students in the course Multidisciplinary Engineering Design is developing adaptive disc golf equipment to help veterans with disabilities—including partial quadriplegia and visual impairments—play more independently and with greater control.
Their solution, developed in collaboration with the organization Disabled American Veterans, includes two custom devices: a slingshot-style disc launcher with a crank mechanism that mimics a crossbow and can be secured onto a wheelchair, and a GPS-enabled armband that uses vibration and audio cues to help visually impaired players aim more precisely and locate a disc after a throw.
Read more about their project on the Whiting School’s Engineering Design Center.