Maker shows off his newest homemade aluminum prosthetic hand

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Thanks for covering this. I can’t find the way to submit story suggestions any more so I have been posting directly to the forum.

Mechanical Prosthetic Hand Updates

Original BB story from July here. I am in awe of Ian Davis. A couple of weeks ago he provided this detailed update on all the engineering considerations, where he was seeing too much wear and tear, properties of materials used and how to get the best leverage to effectively strengthen the grip. He keeps building new ones from scratch as he considers a ton of improvements each time. [Aluminum Hand Update! Starting all over...] Meanwhile he also developed a prosthetic fit for a Mi…

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Meanwhile he also developed a prosthetic fit for a Milwaukee 1/4" impact driver. Here’s the long version:

Milwaukee 1/4" impact partial hand prosthetic device

And short clip of it in use last week:

Real World use of my Milwaukee Impact Prosthetic Device.

UPDATE! After posting this today, I had to go to The Home Depot. There was a guy in the tool section from Milwaukee Tools, so I struck up a conversation about this and he checked out Andrea’s post and is going to tell the team about it, in case they aren’t already working with him. Ian Davis only posted the Milwaukee thing a month ago so maybe they aren’t.