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Introduction, any ideas?
Hey guys,
I am new to these forums, have been looking around, and figured I'd introduce myself, as well as try to get some ideas.
This may seem off topic, but my interests are in ocular prosthetic augmentation.
During high school, I lost my eye, and ever since then, I've hoped to make my own prosthetic.
A current prosthetic will cost you $2800, and is only meant to look like an eye.
If you've heard of the borg eye project, it is a clear example of an augmented prosthetic.
My current position gives me access to basically every machinery possible, as well as the means to acquire the materials needed for the creation.
I hope to start my project soon, and was hoping for ideas on augmenting the eye.
Current material costs should be $500, which gives me enough material to make dozens of eyes.
My first goal is to reverse engineer the eye (ocularists have made it a trade secret).
Possible ideas that I've come up with are LED's, for night walking; RFID chip; and embedded magnetic macrobeads.
I am new to these forums, have been looking around, and figured I'd introduce myself, as well as try to get some ideas.
This may seem off topic, but my interests are in ocular prosthetic augmentation.
During high school, I lost my eye, and ever since then, I've hoped to make my own prosthetic.
A current prosthetic will cost you $2800, and is only meant to look like an eye.
If you've heard of the borg eye project, it is a clear example of an augmented prosthetic.
My current position gives me access to basically every machinery possible, as well as the means to acquire the materials needed for the creation.
I hope to start my project soon, and was hoping for ideas on augmenting the eye.
Current material costs should be $500, which gives me enough material to make dozens of eyes.
My first goal is to reverse engineer the eye (ocularists have made it a trade secret).
Possible ideas that I've come up with are LED's, for night walking; RFID chip; and embedded magnetic macrobeads.
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Which part is a trade secret? if you're talking about a standard glass eye there was an episode on how it's made how to do it. It's less that it's a trade secret and more you need to be an artist to make it look right.That said the idea of making an ocular prosthetic is fun. you'll have to be careful with all the moulding that'll need to be done since i can't imagine that cavity is particularly tough. Ya know, your brain being right there and all. that's probably where the trade secrets come in. What gels and stuff to use for the moulds and how to get it in there without hurting the patient.
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The materials were actually the easiest to find, since one of my ocularists let slip about how they get all the materials from a single vendor. So it was easy to find out that it is made with Methyl Methacrylate monomer & azobis catalyst. As for taking a mold, it is an alginate mold, also information from the vendor.
I am just having issues on finding the process for adding a second layer.
Usually, they make a mold from your eye, use it to make a hardened white PMMA back, where they attach the iris to, then cover it with a clear PMMA layer.
No doubt, finding the right process will be lots of fun,
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Why not go all the way and put a CCD in there and a wireless link?Shameless plug - if you do it right, it could be CyborgNet (see my "standardised inter-cyborg protocol" thread) compatible and send visual data as a stream and later add a visual cortex implant when that becomes possible (using it for other cool stuff in the meantime).
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Do you already have an integrated ball/orbital implant? It would be cool, but difficult, if you could create your own orbital implant that has its own encapsulated power supply. Then you could use the smaller prosthetics as a functional subunit with LEDs, camera, RFID chip or whatever you want that just plugs into the power supply behind it. You could have a host of smaller prosthetics and swap them out as you needed.
Anyways sounds like a cool project which Ill definitely being following.Edit: Another prosthetic idea is a northpaw component seeing that there has been lots of talk about that recently. Not sure how you would sense the direction tho. -
While I'd like to make a camera prosthetic, the borg eye is the only one that has achieved it, and honestly, it looks too obvious.
As for the northpaw idea, I'm hoping the magnetic microbeads may be able to reproduce the effects.
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@Ocu i think the camera eye would be pretty awesome.and i don't think it needs to be seethrough all the way around. you could just leave the camera lens to be visible, that could be pretty cool... especially if you use a small camera that they already have in pens and such. just speculating.
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