one other thing i've been thinking about...
so, microcontrollers are cheap. and there's a growing user-base of easily-accessible microcontroller related stuff, with the arduino etc.
there ae a bunch of people who have prosthetics. and there's a lot of kids coming back from overseas missing limbs. some of these people have to be nerds.
why am i not yet hearing about people doing customized things involving prosthetic limbs and electronics? i mean, outside of the MIT leg lab.
i assume it'll happen eventually. i'm just surprised it hasn't happened already.
there ae a bunch of people who have prosthetics. and there's a lot of kids coming back from overseas missing limbs. some of these people have to be nerds.
why am i not yet hearing about people doing customized things involving prosthetic limbs and electronics? i mean, outside of the MIT leg lab.
i assume it'll happen eventually. i'm just surprised it hasn't happened already.
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The Open Prosthetics Project (http://openprosthetics.org/) aims to harness the power of open-source to prosthetics, which had not advanced appreciably in decades.
(Many of my customers are in need of this work, seeing as they are bomb disposal technicians.)
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i mean, not cool that they need the prosthetics, but what a great project.
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Out of a handful-thousand Marine infantrymen that I have known, I'm the only one. Anecdote != evidence, of course, and my sample is not at all random.
The highest casualty rates for that sort of thing are among Infantry and MP's, wherein there's the lowest incidence of nerds, so... :/
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so your arm can do lighting and strobe effects for a rave?