July is nine and now in the 5th grade. She wants to be able to write and draw faster. She is blind from birth and uses a braille machine and a computer to write. But she also taught herself writing letters, because you just need a pen to do that. She is annoyed by the fact that writing is always associated with a lot of effort and equipment for her and that she can not read what she has written when she writes using ordinary pens.

Together with Juli and her father Steffen, we would like to develop solutions that make writing and drawing tactile and / or uncomplicated for blind people.

This monthly meetup aims to bring people with special needs, makers, designers and other experts together for creating open source solutions in the broad field of health & wellbeing. In these sessions we would like to ideate and prototype related (connected) hardware products with you that can be replicated and improved in every well equipped makerspace in the world. We will use all kinds of prototyping techniques, be it simple manual model making, lasercutting, CNC-milling with a Datron NEO or 3D-printing with FDM or SLA technology. Maker skills and/or experience with special health & wellbeing needs will be particularly helpful, yet everybody who wants to contribute is most welcome. The results will contribute to a global network that we are currently building with partner organizations and hopefully you on careables.org.