Use touch-screen, PDA, iPhone, Motorola Droid or Motorola Milestone with a prosthetic hand
Posted on January 30, 2010
Using a prosthetic hand or hook, using inductive touch screens can be a big problem. As modern electronics are attractive in many ways and as particularly disabled people often need a better and much more thorough basis for planning and information for a range of individual reasons, modern PDAs, iPhones or other touch screen devices are attractive.
As can be shown such a pen will actually work with a prosthesis - hook or hand.
Here are some links to pens that may do the trick.
Stump socks / protectors for different applications II
Posted on July 11, 2009
The PET bottle trick (step by step instructions here) looked so cool.
I am on my way to working out comfortable and functional interface solution, to get robust and functional arm stump protection. Also I am slowly getting my hand/s dirty in the domain of building some of my own stuff - and if just for testing out some ’spare parts’. Second last but not least I should also create a feel of ‘amateur’ and ‘enthusiastic’ not as to scare off our ‘professionals’. Also, I always believe in full step by step documentation of stuff, and if only for later referral. Even in instances where it seems that I failed. No one can learn if failures are not available for reviewing.
So trying this one out came naturally.
Required material:
- Alginate (cheap, web order)
- Plaster cast (cheap, supermarket or web order)
- PET bottle (try to get something a bit bigger than the correct size)
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Stump socks / protectors for different applications I
Posted on November 15, 2008
I am not always wearing the prosthesis or keeping my stump uncovered to air it out. Often, some protective clothing or stump socks are helpful.
