A teen who built a prosthetic arm for his dad
After building my own printer from parts and realizing how hard it is to make something that can follow gcode accurately, repeatedly and quickly I’m still left wondering “How good is this hand?”<p>Most of the stuff I’ve printed or built has ended up being “ok”. A lot of that is that I’m not a meatspace engineer, or a pixie engineer, I’m a software engineer. So I’m very much on the learning curve of robotics... but there is a lot to learn. AvE talks a lot about industrial lego, and its true you can just bolt and solder stuff together and get a prototype, or a proof of concept, but getting that to a product is really hard.<p>So when we say that a kid has built an arm for his Dad, is that a cute story or a sign that the bar for this kind of technology has dropped to the point that a high school kid can build a useful product?<p>I suspect in this instance its a cute story. That or I really need to up my game.