• High Schoolers Build Prosthetic Hand for 4 Year Old
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[URL]http://www.woodtv.com/news/local/kent-county/students-build-hand-for-4-year-old[/URL] [quote]GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A young girl from Cedar Springs has received an early Christmas present: A new prosthetic hand. Harmony Taylor, 4, has a limb difference disorder and was born without a right hand. She quickly outgrew her first prosthetic, and her family couldn't afford a replacement. The first prosthetic cost $5,000, and Harmony's mother, Melanie Peterman, said insurance wouldn't cover a replacement.[/quote] [quote]So members of the Grand Rapids West Catholic robotics team built her one. The team then built a robo-hand, which is made of plastic and elastic cables, reflects Harmony's wrist movements, and is capable of bending, picking up things and even catching a ball. The robotics team worked with Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital in Grand Rapids to make a cast of Harmony's hand so the prosthetic would fit properly.[/quote] [img]http://media2.woodtv.com/photo/2013/12/19/hand-1_1387473905563_4802448_ver1.0_640_480.jpg[/img]
Fucking awesome.
That's a lot of exposed wires. I hope they build a shell too. [b]Edit:[/b] Wait. Nevermind. Those are elastic. She bends her wrist to close the hand. That's a neat little design.
[QUOTE] capable of bending, picking up things and [B]even catching a ball[/B][/QUOTE] That's pretty damn good. Props to these high schoolers.
that is awesome, but it could be better, we will soon reach the age of prosthetic limbs like the one in Ghost in the Shell.
[QUOTE=darkedone02;43241702]that is awesome, but it could be better, we will soon reach the age of prosthetic limbs like the one in Ghost in the Shell.[/QUOTE] Human Revolution's probably more likely, anti-rejection meds and all.
That hand oddly reminds me of the Gunslinger in Team Fortress 2 for some reason.
Grand Rapids, MI, Keep up the good work.
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;43241776]Human Revolution's probably more likely, anti-rejection meds and all.[/QUOTE] Just don't give prosthetics to people who don't really need it. [editline]19th December 2013[/editline] [quote]Grand Rapids West Catholic[/quote] Wait so you're telling me not all catholics are bad people? You sure had me fooled facepunch.
[QUOTE=redBadger;43241814]Just don't give prosthetics to people who don't really need it. [editline]19th December 2013[/editline] Wait so you're telling me not all catholics are bad people? You sure had me fooled facepunch.[/QUOTE] It's just the school that's catholic though, students don't have to be.
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;43241776]Human Revolution's probably more likely, anti-rejection meds and all.[/QUOTE] Why? People have prosthetics now that ([URL="http://www.mdguidelines.com/complications-of-devices-implants-and-grafts"]Mostly[/URL]) don't require immunosuppressing medication, only antiseptics when they are implanted. Video games aren't usually about facts. Next thing you're gonna tell me Bioshock was a reasonable portrayal of libertarian societies!
I have seen that design before, IIRC some engineer designed a scalable prosthetic that allows gripping with wrist movements. The main parts were 3D printable which allowed the main parts to be scaled for the user, and the only other requirements were elastics and a few screws to assemble. Looks like the students could have produced the parts from those (open source) designs for the girl and assembled them.
[QUOTE=redBadger;43241814]Just don't give prosthetics to people who don't really need it.[/QUOTE] What if someone wants to replace their foot with a Flexfoot Cheetah?
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;43242674]Video games aren't usually about facts. Next thing you're gonna tell me Bioshock was a reasonable portrayal of libertarian societies![/QUOTE] well just to go off on a tangent here, it didn't technically have anything to do with libertarianism, only objectivism (and Atlas Shrugged in particular). but this is all irrelevant to the thread anyway so who gives a flying monkey's toss
[QUOTE=redBadger;43241814]Just don't give prosthetics to people who don't really need it. [/QUOTE] Are you suggesting that people do not need laser eyes and chainsaw arms?
[QUOTE=redBadger;43241814]Just don't give prosthetics to people who don't really need it.[/QUOTE]the last time i said this in a prosthetics-related thread, Facepunch's own Machine Cult came out of the woodwork and verbally pounded me fifty miles into the planet's crust. could have just been the way i worded it though
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43243480]the last time i said this in a prosthetics-related thread, Facepunch's own Machine Cult came out of the woodwork and verbally pounded me fifty miles into the planet's crust. could have just been the way i worded it though[/QUOTE] I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Ave Deus Mechanicus.
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at first i read the title as "high schoolers bully prosthetic-handed 4 year old" and was deeply saddened this is a much better turn of events
I know it was 3D printed, but I would've figured the fingers could've been made with an Erector set :v:
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43243480]the last time i said this in a prosthetics-related thread, Facepunch's own Machine Cult came out of the woodwork and verbally pounded me fifty miles into the planet's crust. could have just been the way i worded it though[/QUOTE] You dared to insult the Omnissiah, that's why.
What's a 'limb difference disorder'? If that's a catch-all politically correct way to describe somebody who is missing a limb... is it necessary? I mean I fully understand the necessity for concessions to people with disabilities (mental or physical) in the way we talk about them, but limb difference disorder feels a bit over the top [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Didn't read the OP" - Megafan))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Maloof?;43247528]What's a 'limb difference disorder'? If that's a catch-all politically correct way to describe somebody who is missing a limb... is it necessary? I mean I fully understand the necessity for concessions to people with disabilities (mental or physical) in the way we talk about them, but limb difference disorder feels a bit over the top[/QUOTE] it's not like her arm was amputated she's not a amputee she was born with it it probably is a limb disorder
[QUOTE=Maloof?;43247528]What's a 'limb difference disorder'? If that's a catch-all politically correct way to describe somebody who is missing a limb... is it necessary? I mean I fully understand the necessity for concessions to people with disabilities (mental or physical) in the way we talk about them, but limb difference disorder feels a bit over the top[/QUOTE] It's a disorder, she was born without a hand.
[QUOTE=redBadger;43241814]Just don't give prosthetics to people who don't really need it. [/QUOTE] Why?
Maybe he means something like "Don't give prosthetics to people who are just trying to replace parts with them". Like, if I went up right now and was like "GIVE ME ROBO ARMS", don't actually give me robo arms.
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;43249144]Maybe he means something like "Don't give prosthetics to people who are just trying to replace parts with them". Like, if I went up right now and was like "GIVE ME ROBO ARMS", don't actually give me robo arms.[/QUOTE] Understandable; however prosthetics are too "primitive" to be objectively superior to normal limbs, and by the time we have the perfect affordable prosthetics, we'll probably have the tech to tinker with our own genes and take on the Aspect of the Salamander, enabling us to regrow our limbs as easy as hair or nails. Thing is you could definitely do things with biomechanical augmentation that you couldn't do with genetic augmentation, but when it comes to altering oneself, I'd imagine altering one's genetic code would be smoother and more reliable than sticking a chip into your skull or wiring a robot hand into whatever stumps you have. Wouldn't require as many mineral resources either, so even if cyberpunks are able to be totally pimping with gold-plated prosthetics and diamond skull-studs, biopunks would only need to jab themselves with a programmed retroviral hypo and go into hibernation until they wake up with extra arms or a change of hair colour.
Man, I wish I was a high schooler again Imagine all the cool shit I'd build
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;43242674]Why? People have prosthetics now that ([URL="http://www.mdguidelines.com/complications-of-devices-implants-and-grafts"]Mostly[/URL]) don't require immunosuppressing medication, only antiseptics when they are implanted. [/QUOTE] IIRC HR's prosthetic problem wasn't about simple rejection of foreigh bodies, but more like the organism trying to repair its supposedly damaged nerves, when they're actually connected to the prosthetic limb, thus creating something like nerve "oxidation". :v:
[QUOTE=Fetret;43248786]Why?[/QUOTE]Why would you cut off your perfectly functional arm for a mechanical one that does the same thing? [editline]aaaa[/editline] [QUOTE=damnatus;43255146]IIRC HR's prosthetic problem wasn't about simple rejection of foreigh bodies, but more like the organism trying to repair its supposedly damaged nerves, when they're actually connected to the prosthetic limb, thus creating something like nerve "oxidation". :v:[/QUOTE]iirc it was the formation of scar tissue that would interfere with the implants. Which oddly enough, is quite a real possibility.
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