Ako’s 2-year-old son, Alejandro, is afflicted with spinal muscular atrophy, a neuromuscular disorder that’s left him nearly immobile. He needed a new power wheelchair, but on the Hacking SMA blog, Ako ...

The Assistive Technology challenge of the Hackaday Prize received a large number of projects addressing many socially relevant problems. Mobility and transportation needs are a big challenge for those ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzKxPB6q6-k&feature=player_embedded] Burf aka Simon Burfield is an iOS programmer and Lego experimenter who tries to take ...

At 4 months old, Evelyn Moore was diagnosed with cancer after doctors found a neuroblastoma tumor on her spine. After eight rounds of chemotherapy, Evelyn is now in remission, although her family has ...