I'd love to know this also. my joystick box is annoying in that regard.

~Tamar Mag Raine
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Oakland Mayor's Commission on People with disabilities


> [Original Message]
> From: Dufour, Deb RQHR (by way of Deri
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> Date: 2/22/2005 11:08:14 AM
> Subject: Power wheelchair joystick question
>
> Amanda is a 12 year old girl who drives a power wheelchair (quickie p500)
> with a joystick.   Because the joystick itself is so bulky, she cannot
drive
> up close enough to a table in the kitchen or at school.   If her joystick
is
> flipped out of the way, she can be manually pushed into place, but we are
> looking to keep Amanda as independent as possible!
>
> Have any of you come up to this same problem?
>
> Does anyone know of a mini-joystick type idea that would be able to be
> plugged into her regular joystick, so that when the big joystick is
flipped
> out of the way, she would be able to sneak up to the table surface using
the
> smaller joystick?
>
> Any advice, comments or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!!
> Thanks,
> Deb