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My Human Kit
Innovative and customized solutions for the disabled
HandicapDiversityBretagne
With 35 €,
My Human Kit finances:
1 hour(s) of work on a 3D printing project
7,275 €10,000 €
668 Captains
Challenge
Many technical and technological solutions that make daily life easier for people with disabilities are difficult to access financially and technically: either because they are too expensive, or because their manufacturing models are proprietary, or because they simply don't exist yet.
In addition, these solutions are often based on a logic of care and assistance that neither encourages acceptance nor empowers people to act.
Solution
My Human Kit runs a place open to all called "the Humanlab". People with disabilities are accompanied by volunteers and employees in the self-fabrication of a solution adapted to their needs, financially accessible and whose remanufacturing plans are freely shared.
My Human Kit thus aims to defend and carry disability as a difference synonymous with richness and motivation, but also to promote the development of accessible solutions and develop the empowerment of people affected by disability.
My Human Kit thus aims to defend and carry disability as a difference synonymous with richness and motivation, but also to promote the development of accessible solutions and develop the empowerment of people affected by disability.
Recent result
Since the Humanlab's inception in 2017, My Human Kit has invented, manufactured and shared with its members more than 150 solutionsfacilitating the daily lives of people with disabilities in various fields: housing and home automation, communication, games, sports and leisure, mobility, etc.
The money will be used for
The funds raised will cover the working time of the project coordinator, who will support 3 people with disabilities in the self-fabrication of their solutions (high level of complexity) and the purchase of the materials needed to carry out their projects.
Goal
The HumanLab's goal for 2023 is to accompany 30 people to invent, make and share their solutions and learn about digital fabrication. In this way, they participate in the life of a mixed-use, meeting place and reveal their capacity to act.
2 avenue du Bois Labbé, 35000 RENNES, France
Turning limitations into motivations
The purpose of the My Human Kit association is to research and provide solutions to improve the autonomy and quality of life of people with disabilities. It bases its actions on the values of sharing, collaboration and accessibility.
The Humanlab, created by the association, is an open source digital fabrication workshop based in Rennes, geared towards people with disabilities. It brings together a wide audience around projects led by people with disabilities aimed at improving their daily lives.
Manufacturing is intended to be a support for emancipation in order to change the way people look at disabilities, so that they become a source of creativity and motivation: this is "handicapowerment".
My Human Kit's ambition is to spread the Humanlab project with structures ready to commit to this approach in France and internationally.
Jérôme (in the cap) and his brother enjoyed a pedal-boat ride together during a visit to his home in Montreal. Thanks to his Notaboo prototype, Jérôme was able to travel independently.Jérôme validates his latest prototype of a nomadic Japanese toilet!
Remember Jérôme? He's the man behind the Notaboo project: nomadic Japanese toilets (or bidets) adapted to help people with limited fine motor skills maintain their independence when using the toilet away from home.
After spending 3 days in Japan last spring to make progress on his project and benefit from the experience of our Japanese counterparts in the field, the prototype was finalized during a bootcamp organized with INSA Rennes (engineering school) last July. If you'd like to find out more about his adventure in Japan, Jérôme has just published a logbook on his website.
Since then, Jérôme has been able to test the latest prototype, which features a foot pedal control sent from Japan by Takayuki, whom he met at Fabrikarium Tokyo. You can find the tests of Jérôme's latest prototype here.
His feedback is positive, and he validates this version! Even if there are still areas for improvement for a future version: increasing the duration of the jet, finding another container for the water to have a better one-handed grip, succeeding in printing a watertight nozzle (resin to be tested) as this is a difficult component to find in spare parts.
Thank you for your support! Thanks to you, Jérôme was able to visit his brother in Montreal on his own!
Lilwen, her parents, Delphine (fabmanager at My Human Kit), Suliane (volunteer at My Human Kit) and the other members of the Stimu'loud team at the Fabrikarium in Palavas-les-Flots.A team mobilized for 3 days to advance Lilwen's Stimu'loud project
Last June, My Human Kit took part in the first Fabrikarium at Humanlab Saint-Pierre (near Montpellier), a member of the Humanlabs network run by My Human Kit.
The Fabrikarium is a collaborative rapid prototyping event aimed at accelerating the development of innovative solutions to disability. For 3 days, 4 teams took up the challenge of designing and manufacturing 4 functional prototypes to meet the needs expressed by children and adults with disabilities!
One of the teams was dedicated to Lilwen's Stimul'loud project, initiated earlier this year at My Human Kit's Humanlab in Rennes. Lilwen is a young girl suffering from a neurological pathology that prevents her from communicating with her parents. The aim of this project is to stimulate Lilwen's cognitive development by associating sounds, objects and actions with each other. To achieve this, the team used Makey Makey (an educational electronic kit) to create a modular test bench to aid communication. Lilwen and her parents left with a prototype to test at home over several weeks. To be continued...
Jérôme with his prototype at Fabrikarium TokyoJérôme and his portable Japanese toilet project... at Fabrikarium Tokyo!
Last month, My Human Kit co-organized, with the FabLab Shinagawa, the Fabrikarium Tokyo: the first Franco-Japanese makeathon dedicated to disabilities, digital fabrication and the commons. The 70 participants were divided into 6 teams, one of which was that of Jérôme, the bearer of the French project Notaboo: a nomadic Japanese toilet (or bidet) adapted to maintain autonomy when traveling outside the home when suffering from fine motor impairment.
This project initiated by Jérôme over 10 years ago, and supported by My Human Kit for the past 1 year, had already been the subject in 2022 of a first do it yourself prototype documented in open source on our wikilab site.
During the 3-day event, Jérôme was able to talk to everyday users of Japanese toilets and work on improvements to his prototype: printing a toilet seat holder that can be adapted to a wide range of models, modeling a nozzle (from which the water jet emerges), creating a solution for adjusting the nozzle's inclination and setting up a remote release adapted to his motor skills. As an added bonus, Jérôme was able to present his prototype to the Japan Toilet Association, which is very interested in following its progress!
Thanks to the support of the Captains, My Human Kit continues to accompany Jérôme and his Notaboo project. The goal: a second, finalized version very soon! Thank you for your support!
Simon, Lilwen's dad, and Delphine, fabmanager at My Human Kit, think about where to place the buttons on the tray of Lilwen's armchair.Launch of the Stimu'loud project: creation of a multisensory interface for Lilwen
Simon and his 10-year-old daughter Lilwen came through the doors of Humanlab a few weeks ago with a project in mind: to create an interface to encourage Lilwen's interactions with her surroundings.
Lilwen uses very little speech to communicate and has few fine motor skills. Called "Stimu'loud", the aim of the project is to stimulate her with buttons and/or joysticks to create sound or visual interactions when she triggers them independently. A first phase is currently underway to find the right locations in front of her on her chair's tablet, and also to determine what stimulates her the most, with an essentially playful approach. A second phase will be to develop an adapted interface that will enable her to develop communication with those around her.
Lilwen uses very little speech to communicate and has few fine motor skills. Called "Stimu'loud", the aim of the project is to stimulate her with buttons and/or joysticks to create sound or visual interactions when she triggers them independently. A first phase is currently underway to find the right locations in front of her on her chair's tablet, and also to determine what stimulates her the most, with an essentially playful approach. A second phase will be to develop an adapted interface that will enable her to develop communication with those around her.
Thanks to donations from the Captains, our fabmanager Delphine and one of our volunteers, Suliane, are accompanying Simon, a DIY dad, on this project. Next step: participation in June in a prototyping event organized in Palavas-les-Flots (34) by one of My Human Kit's partners, the Humanlab Saint-Pierre, specialized in pediatric projects.
Thank you for your support!
Thank you for your support!