This morning I was surfing the web for LEGO Arm designs to try to come up with ideas for stabilizing the pretty mediocre arm I built last night for our upcoming demonstration at MAXENT 2007. I came across a blog called the Open Prosthetics Project featuring a piece titled “Articulated Hand: Low Cost Prototyping with LEGO“. where they described the work of John Bergmann who has prototyped a prosthetic hand using LEGO technic parts. They even posted building instructions.
The subtitle of the blog is “Prosthetics Shoudn’t Cost an Arm and a Leg”. I agree, and neither should robotics. The fact is that LEGO’s prefabricated plastic parts are ideal building blocks. Why spend $100s of thousands of dollars and several months to develop laboratory prototypes when you can do it for hundreds of dollars and several days.
Its amazing, but real people are doing real things with LEGOs.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Posted under Entrepreneurship, Inventions, Lego, Neuroscience, Research, Robotics, Solutions
This post was written by drknuth on June 17, 2007
Great Idea i love legos and this is a great idea