The goal of our project is to modify a functional trainer pulley machine to be more accessible to
people with disabilities, with an emphasis on wheelchair and dexterity related disabilities.
People in wheelchairs have a limited reach and are often unable to reach the pulley at certain
heights, and people with dexterity related disabilities are not able to remove the spring loaded
locking pin and adjust the height at the same time. To ease these problems, our machine has a
cable that wraps around a winch and is attached on the ends to the pulley adjustment assembly.
The winch spool acts as a capstan, and using a series of gearboxes, turns a centralized
rotational input into translating the pulley assembly vertically.