one other thing i've been thinking about...

[rmd]

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.

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[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

There is!

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.)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

cool!

i mean, not cool that they need the prosthetics, but what a great project.