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...
IntroductionWe present the development of a breakout board for controlling our prosthetic hand. It is a PCB (printed circuit board) with pin headers to accomodate two different servo motors (standard servo and herkulex). It can have both analog inputs...
IntroductionAs we have already mentioned here, we are in the process of migrating our designs to FreeCAD in order to be freely accessible to all and because we believe in fully open source solutions! The new designs can be found here.Up to now we have...
The IdeaAn old and reliable method of controlling prosthetic devices is by using a harness-socket actuation system in a body powered manner [1]. In order to further reduce the cost of our prosthetic hands omitting any kind of electronics and servos,...
To put the OpenBionics project into perspective, we present the current status of the Prosthetics Market and compare indicative commercially available solutions with the OpenBionics prosthetic hands in terms of cost. The current status of the Prosthetic...
DescriptionWe present a technical report, intended to serve as a step by step tutorial for the replication of the prosthetic hands. The guide contains illustrated instructions, carrying the user over all assembly steps and providing practical advice...
Update: August 29thWe have some great progress that has been made by a global group of amazing people. Actuonix Motion Devices Inc. (Canada) sponsored some actuators, James, Audrey (New York), Jose (Mexico) and Willie (South Africa) have all been helping...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...