Prosthesis and the many applications to biohacking
After a work accident threatening the amputation of part (or all of my thumb) I started researching prosthetic options and I found they all either fell short or were far too expensive (or both) ... so I decided to design an open source base for others to build on.
I think prosthetics are a great way to test and implement many of the biohacks I've seen on here without the risk of failed tech inside your own body haha (also after speaking with several amputees I found many are more than willing to test new ideas and give great input on what is lacking)
I think prosthetics are a great way to test and implement many of the biohacks I've seen on here without the risk of failed tech inside your own body haha (also after speaking with several amputees I found many are more than willing to test new ideas and give great input on what is lacking)
I have access to 3D printers and have some metal casting/forming/machining skills as well as intermediate skills with electronics.
looking for discussion (brainstorming) on transdermal metal bone grafts, haptic feedback, electrical feedback, magnetic feedback and any other ideas you have. the sky is the limit.
also secondarily I am looking for someone with 3D design skills/experience to aid in the prototyping phase.
looking for discussion (brainstorming) on transdermal metal bone grafts, haptic feedback, electrical feedback, magnetic feedback and any other ideas you have. the sky is the limit.
also secondarily I am looking for someone with 3D design skills/experience to aid in the prototyping phase.
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in my experience with muscle wire it would be far too slow and would probably require an external battery for it to be of any use (it would take several strands to make enough movement and for it to exert enough force and more strands = more power consumption)
I am thinking more along the lines of a "posable" prosthetic.
3D printed in a sort of lattice to allow the pad of the finger to flex (as much as the pad of your finger flexes) I think that would help when picking smaller objects up. the pad of the finger would also be coated with something like plastidip to give it better grip.
here's where the electronics would come to play. inside the tip of the finger would be a pager motor with a pressure reactive resistor and a battery.
when the pad of the prosthetic flexes it would activate the pager motor giving haptic feedback on how hard you are gripping the object.
I believe that would be fairly easy to implement.
also being hollow the prosthetic would be extremely light and have plenty of room inside for other things such as magnets and RFID chips (you could even place a far more powerful model chip inside since you aren't constrained by implantability)