Using the open source RoboHand prosthetic as a basis for design, students will re-envisioned the device to provide functionality beyond the capabilities of a traditional digit-based prosthetic. Students will build on the projects conceived in the DIY Prosthetics studio which worked with the eNable online community which produces low-cost prosthetics to children for whom a standard prosthetic is cost-prohibitive and impractical due to growth. 

This is a prosthetic for kids that is designed to be able to shoot a rubber band with one hand. While the person wearing the prosthetic has their hand clamped around the handel in the front, they pull the handel upwards and that causes joint in the middle on the lever to go down, and the end holding the rubber band to go up, therefore releasing the rubber band. 

The goal of our studio was to make protetic hands that could do a spesific task. My project was to design and create a protetic dog leash hand. It will help people be able to hold and stop a retractable leash. 

My origanal idea was to make the leash like a fishing rod. That didn't work because the person would have to use both hands to real the dog in. My next idea  was to use a retractable dog leash as the hand. When David came he helped me find out that dog leashes and fishing rods have a similar mecinism we found out that the stoping mecanisum wouldn't work because they don't have fingers. So David and I came up with the idea that we should use a pen to click the stopper into place. When I did my frist draft I realized that the leash wouldn't stay. Also I didn't have anything to keep the hand on the arm. We made some modifcations to the hand part and made a new brace and we made. 

This is a ball thrower. Wnen you place a ball in the scooper and flick your wrist down quickly it throws the ball about 5 feet. Abby and I first desinged a device which could slap people but then we decided that we needed to make something that would actually be helpful in the long run. Thus came the idea of the ball thrower using some of the design ideas from the slapper. The Lastest Scoop is for people who don't have a hand but still have the motion of their wrist. All of the parts of this machine, exluidng the ball, screws and string, have been designed on the Rhino software.