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This Teen Built A Prosthetic Arm Using Lego
GeekTyrant ^ | March 16, 2018 | Mick Joest

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at geektyrant.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: andorra; innovation; lego; prosthesis; spain
Video at the link. Pretty clever kid.


1 posted on 03/19/2018 7:41:18 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I’ll Be Back!


2 posted on 03/19/2018 7:44:49 PM PDT by partyrepub
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Pretty clever kid.

Must be if he can figure out how to assemble lego blocks together using just one hand.

3 posted on 03/19/2018 7:52:18 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Needs a chainsaw and optional boomstick.

4 posted on 03/19/2018 7:56:18 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Fantastic. Where is Andorra?
This boy should receive a scholarship to a school like MIT.


5 posted on 03/19/2018 7:56:44 PM PDT by lee martell
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It’s a small country in the Pyrenees between Spain and France.


6 posted on 03/19/2018 8:00:50 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

“Groovy.”


7 posted on 03/19/2018 8:05:55 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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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.


8 posted on 03/19/2018 8:06:06 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

It always is about the presentation...


9 posted on 03/19/2018 8:11:53 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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Thats what i don’t get, you never hear of amputees building their own prosthetics.


10 posted on 03/19/2018 8:14:57 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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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.


11 posted on 03/19/2018 8:23:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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I am absolutely blown the f*** away! WOW :O


12 posted on 03/19/2018 8:42:01 PM PDT by chris37 (Laws donÂ’t prevent criminals from committing crimes. Guns prevent criminals from committing crimes.)
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Amazing!


13 posted on 03/19/2018 9:06:53 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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Scholarship offers like that onlt go to clock boys.


14 posted on 03/19/2018 9:14:10 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Amazing.


15 posted on 03/19/2018 10:17:48 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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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!


16 posted on 03/20/2018 12:53:41 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Amazing. What an inspiration.


17 posted on 03/20/2018 2:16:09 AM PDT by FES0844 (Gould the allow it.)
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Just when people were thinking that LEGO blocks are obsolete . . .

18 posted on 03/20/2018 8:50:17 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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