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  • Hacklet 41 - DIY Prosthetics Projects

  • Throughout human history, mankind has worked to enable those with disabilities. This applies especially to those who have missing limbs, either from injury or since birth. Every time technology improves, prosthetics improve along with the way. Unfortunately...
  • Angry Prosthetic Starting Out

  • I've been thinking about how I want to create this series of musical prosthetics. I have a concept of a set of three, and ready to start the first one. For my first prosthetic I've decided to start out with the emotion of mad, angry, irritated. I'm envisioning...
  • Angry Prosthetic Making Prisms

  • I bought some copper wire and started experimenting with the shape and form of triangle prisms. I realized pretty quickly that I didn’t know what I was doing. I consulted two jewelers, Val and Cathy, and asked what the best way to approach the situation...
  • Angry Prosthetic Finishing Building

  • Once I had run out of wire and had a box full of prisms, I panicked, because I realized that I had not thought through how I would attach the prisms to each other and to the body. I went back to my same jeweler mentors and talked through my problem....
  • Angry Prosthetic Electronics

  • Once I had the design aspect of this piece done, it was time to start thinking about the musical aspect and creating sound.  After seeing how the chains looked on the body and interacted with the body, I decided the best way to play this instrument...
  • Worry Prosthetic Starting Off

  • Confident that my first prosthetic is in a good place, I’ve started thinking about my second prosthetic. I know I want this prosthetic to represent worry, anxiety, and sadness.  I started thinking about how worry and emotional burden present in...
  • Worry Prosthetic Sewing Leather

  • At this point I felt like I was ready to start experimenting with real leather. I knew that felt and leather wouldn’t act the same, so I could only expect so much of my prototype to work with actual leather materials. Nevertheless, I felt like I was...