Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Lift Assist

Location:   Expo Green   

I developed a toilet seat lift for disabled individuals that is made out of PVC and runs off the water pressure from ones house.

Web site: http://liftassist.blogspot.com/

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Topic(s): Engineering

Tags: Toilet seat, lift, disabled, water, hydraulics

About the Maker(s)

Miguel Valenzuela Miguel is a design engineer for a Southern California water agency and has a BS in Bio Resource and Agricultural Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Miguel's passion is photography, working with multimedia, and fulfilling his hacker habit by working with hand tools in his garage.

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