Posted on 03/19/2018 7:41:18 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
If you're looking for some motivation today to get you through a task you're struggling with, take some time to learn about David Aguilar. David, who was born with an under-developed arm, successfully created himself a prosthetic arm made entirely out of Lego. Not only that, it only took him five days to complete the first model. Since then David has perfected his design and created another arm with a motor that gives him more functionality than ever.
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I’ll Be Back!
Must be if he can figure out how to assemble lego blocks together using just one hand.
Needs a chainsaw and optional boomstick.
Fantastic. Where is Andorra?
This boy should receive a scholarship to a school like MIT.
It’s a small country in the Pyrenees between Spain and France.
“Groovy.”
Re: This boy should receive a scholarship to a school like MIT.
If only he had been Muslim and had built a clock out of existing clock pieces and shoved it into a brief case and scared the people around him.
It always is about the presentation...
Thats what i don’t get, you never hear of amputees building their own prosthetics.
Near the Basque region perhaps. That area is going through some serious nationalistic clashes now. One side says they are allied with Spain, the other side allied with Catalonia.
Very few Americans give that struggle any thought.
I am absolutely blown the f*** away! WOW :O
Amazing!
Scholarship offers like that onlt go to clock boys.
Amazing.
Now i can just see this scenario, orders start coming in for those realistic sex dolls, the ones with near perfect looking synthetic skin and the the needed limbs are removed and hacked with off the shelf robotic linear actuators.
Or....you can buy a 3D printer with the silicone material and print your part at home, customized to your needs.
The medical community would riot!
Amazing. What an inspiration.
Just when people were thinking that LEGO blocks are obsolete . . .
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