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Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos

posted by martyb on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the Mechano-was-better-dept dept.

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After losing his arm to a rare generic condition Adrian Aguilar made a replacement limb out of lego. His first attempt at making an artificial arm was at nine years old, making a number of limbs Iron Man style over the years. His goal is to help others make prosthetic limbs cheaply.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:34AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday February 10 2019, @05:34AM (#799028) Homepage

    Hell yeah, and the best example of this is Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi. He cut 2 fingertips off the fingers on his right hand cutting sheet metal on his last fucking day of work. So what does the motherfucker do? Improvises prosthetic fingertips and then learns how to play guitar left-handed, and becomes the godfather of metal guitarists in the process.

    A fad nowadays is to use 3-D printing to generate prosthetics. You can have a Red and yellow colored Robocop hand with strings as tendons to tighten the grip.