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  • 4/18/2025
His parents couldn’t afford toys so this Kerala man is making sure his own son and daughter get to play with the best. Arun Kumar Purushothaman builds adorable miniature vehicles for them. Move over Mattel.

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00:00Thank you very much for joining us.
00:30When I was a child, I cried for a tricycle, but my parents were not in a position to buy
00:46a new one.
00:47So my mother brought me a secondhand broken tricycle.
00:54My father put a wooden wheel for that and I have tried.
01:01After some years, I have started to make my own toys.
01:07When I was in 10th standard, I made a working model of JCB.
01:15That was the first project of mine.
01:24The materials I have used to make this are mainly recycled things.
01:42This is an old dish TV.
01:47This base of this portion is made with an old gas stove top, that metal part of the
01:56gas stove top.
01:59So many metal sheets are used to make the body, that outstretcher and the main thing
02:05is a 24 volt DC motor, which I have used to drive the vehicle.
02:21After finishing my hospital duty, it's very less time only I'm getting, but my family
02:28members, especially my mother, father, and my wife, they are really cooperating with
02:34me.
02:35They are supporting me to do this.
02:38That is the thing, that's why I'm managing the time to make this.
02:50My next project is actually, I want to make some cheap cost electric wheelchairs for the
02:58poor patients.
02:59They are not able to walk, they are not able to do their daily activities.
03:06So if I'm getting good sponsors, I think I can do it.

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