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The aim of this project is to create a rugged, but functional prosthetic hand that could be made using simple hand tools and easy obtainable materials, in areas of the world that aren’t serviced by mainstream medical care.
This prosthetic hand may not look pretty, but it will be more than capable of performing the tasks it was designed for.
A .pdf containing full plans, and instructions will be made available for free download.
The total cost for each hand, including the socket will be no more than $30 (if the materials need to be purchased), or free if materials are available to upcycle.
The hand is a body controlled, brake cable activated grip prehensor and is currently designed in an adult size, but a smaller children’s size version will also be made available.
Millions of people in poverty stricken countries worldwide are affected by upper limb loss and as a result their lives, and those of their family are severely affected.
The aim of this project is to go some way to rectifying this situation.
This limb currently has the ability to tilt at the wrist, I’m currently working on a wrist rotator with would allow the hand to rotate 180 degrees.
This is a great project. One thought. If you wanted help from the folks here on the forum and you were doing the CAD work in Fusion360 or Onshape.com you could share the design and get input and design help from the forum members.
Also if you wanted to go from design to making the hand for third world amputees then there is a ton of folks here that could ban together as a team and make the hands.
Thank you so much for your support!! This project means a lot to me!!
Any help from forum members would be greatly appreciated!!
I’m a Solidworks user, so as far as the CAD side of things goes I’ll have to look into the best export format to enable me to share the CAD files. Failing that…and as I’ve always enjoyed learning new packages:) it might be worth me taking a look at Fusion360!!
Great idea, re: asking for assistance from forum members to help make some hands…it would be so cool to be able to actually send a batch out assembled!!
Fantastic!!! Welcome to the $30 Prosthetic Hand Dev team!!! Thankfully you can import SolidWorks Files (*.prt, *.asm, *.sldprt, *.sldasm files into Fusion360.
I’ll be taking part in the hangout on Saturday…maybe we could all have a chat about the hand then?
