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A team of interdisciplinary engineering students in the course Multidisciplinary Engineering Design is developing adaptive disc golf equipment to help veterans with disabilities\u2014including partial quadriplegia and visual impairments\u2014play more independently and with greater control.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Read more about their project on the Whiting School’s Engineering Design Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-44280","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStudents design adaptive disc golf equipment for veterans with disabilities - Center for Leadership Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/cle\/news\/students-design-adaptive-disc-golf-equipment-for-veterans-with-disabilities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Students design adaptive disc golf equipment for veterans with disabilities - Center for Leadership Education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A team of interdisciplinary engineering students in the course Multidisciplinary Engineering Design is developing adaptive disc golf equipment to help veterans with disabilities\u2014including partial quadriplegia and visual impairments\u2014play more independently…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/cle\/news\/students-design-adaptive-disc-golf-equipment-for-veterans-with-disabilities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Center for Leadership Education\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Students design adaptive disc golf equipment for veterans with disabilities - 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