The client, in his early twenties, has Down’s syndrome and has limited sight and hearing. He likes to occupy himself in his room but is subject to epileptic seizures often triggered by being taken by surprise. His family needed a gentle means of attracting his attention when necessary, for example, when meals are ready.

A paging device was made to be worn on a belt or carried in a pocket. When a button is pressed on the transmitter, a vibrator in the device is activated starting at a low level and rising gradually to a higher acceptable level. The client can respond by pressing a button to acknowledge acceptance of the signal.

No seizures have been experienced since the pager has been in use.

Quite a few Remap projects are to help people with arthritis in their hands continue to do things. This one is an adapter to make it easy for someone with weak hands to depress an angina spray

Some are easy. This is a device which allows a child who only hears in one ear to benefit from both the left and right channels of a stereo broadcast.

Effectively, it's a stereo to mono converter for any device using a 3.5mm jack plug.

Not a mail order project! This was a swing for a wheelchair user. The wheelchair needed to be on the swing as it housed her extremely heavy ventilator, from which she couldn't be separated.

The two Remap  volunteers in the picture claim they were only checking the swing for stability - not enjoying themselves

This one is a tow-along trolley (a bit of melamine-faced MDF with four castors) attached to a baby harness. It was designed to allow a crawling infant to tow a very heavy ventilator behind him.

This is the famous Wolff Award winning electronic Recorder.

The idea was that you need 9 digits to play a Recorder and this girl had only two on each hand.

The designer put a row of buttons up the front of the Recorder, a row up the back and each pair of keys could be used to generate up to three different notes (four unique binary combinations including "off").

The input from the recorder was processed by a PIC microcontroller and passed out to a MIDI keyboard to generate the sounds. She was particularly impressed to learn that she could also play the drums on her recorder!