Climbing for the
visually impaired.
In this project, we’ve tried to make climbing/bouldering possible for the partially sighted. In an autonomous manner.
The concept
The idea of moving towards autonomy can be interpreted in “designed assist” in which the user can adjust and step by step diminish the amount of help they are getting. This is because the user could get themselves acquainted with the concept and then decide how much help they want.
We decided to embed “light guide” in the indents of the climbing grips so that the user can have a sense of where to grab, as well as an audio guide which is activated upon touching the start tags.
Pressure sensors are also embedded is the grips so that the more the climber is staying on a specific grip, the brighter the light guides get.
Our project was picked to be demonstrated at “ThingsCon Rotterdam”
