These cool DIY home hacks can help people with disabilities or other mobility problems.

Engineering at Home was created by Sara Hendren and Caitrin Lynch at Olin College of Engineering, and features tons of DIY accessibility projects that offer engineering solutions to help people with special needs adapt to their environments.

For example, these personal sandwich-grabbing tongs:

Or these eating tools that don't require fingers to hold them:

Or a reading board that holds down a newspaper/book without having to grip the pages:

Hendren and Lynch were inspired to create this Engineering at Home platform by the story of a woman named Cindy:

Cindy woke up in a room at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in September 2009 in a radically altered body.

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