Bionic

That’s a great idea. I know some arms with limited interior room(long residual limbs), use lithium batteries that can be rolled up, and wrapped around internals. i will keep that idea in my head, I like that. that top pic of 4 pics, that black box on the right is the battery lol, thing is enormous

Here are more pics of this arm. As you see the arm it is setup for someone with shoulder disarticulation. This has a powered shoulder, powered elbow, powered wrist, and hand. The wrist is very unique, while the wrist rotating is not unique, it does have powered flexion, and extention, which is very useful. This arm is controlled by sensors that recognizes the angles/movement of the sensors, sort of like a mercury switch for those familiar. If you tip your foot forward, a part of the arm will move, if you tip your foot inwards, some other part will move. All of the movements are customizable to the user to what he/she prefers. You can customize the length of the arm too. I do not like the external battery though. For a setup that I would need, i would need a batter clipped to my belt. I am not into that. This arm is simply a power hungry beast. I think this arm would be the most realistic with pattern recognition software. That means up to 16 muscle sensors(electrodes), can be programmed for specific hand gestures(grip patterns), or say to bend the elbow, or even pinch an object. I will be getting into pattern recognition very soon, so this coukd be interesting. I do not know if I will persue this type hand/wrist from this arm pictured. Hope you guys enjoy this.

Its actually not healthy ti leave it on constantly for days at a time. The skin needs to breath, and the liner i wear I have to boil it to kill bacteria.

Haha, meh showers are overrated. i put the arm on at 6am yesterday to go to work, stayed at work until noon today, did shower quick, so 10-15 mins it was offfff

Yes, absolutely! I woukd be thrilled to help you out in anyway I can. May I ask what exactly you need? Had you asked me about shoes by chance? If so, I totally forgot until NOW.

As you see pictured it sits at 10 lbs which apparently is comparable to the human arm. The battery life is feasible though, because something of this caliber, users are not wearing all day. A lot of myoelectric users only wear devices 3-4 hrs a day. I am much different in that aspect, I have been wearing mine for almost 37 straight hours....

I’m sorry? Mad sim? Typo?

There is a ton of electronics, and motions that this full arm system can do, keep that in mind. The battery life is not good, 6-7 hrs on one external battery, and 1 hour for an internal battery. That a long with its price tag, are its MAJOR catastrophic downfalls to me. It is a start though! It was wild. I will post post in a bit.

It was amazing, i did get to operate it after all, videos will be on Instagram.

Ok, I just don’t want to have any negatives between us. Try and have a good day storm.

Would I be one of “those guys” ? i am not being nasty, or aggressive with you, or even arguing....I am expressing my thoughts on the situation because it didn’t sit well on my mind what I read. I even expressed to you that I do not think you are a bad guy, this is only a conversation with you, in my mind. If you are that aggravated with me over what I said, then I don’t know what to tell you.

I truly do not think you are a bad guy, and I honestly mean that. His name calling, and your instigating with food were two separate threads, so its sort of irrelevant to one another. PM if you feel the need to keep this going.

I apologize to all the other members in this thread, I just couldn’t let some of this go without expressing my thoughts. Hate to clutter up a positive event like you guys/gals are working hard to create.

What is there to disagree with? You constantly claim to be a victim around here of being ganged up on. Yet in the post I was referring to you took a stab @Four Season Whitetail's When I don’t think he even posted in this thread. So naturally people are going to say something in response to being called out, or referred to like you JUST did to FSW....then after these occurrences you claim to be a victim. Its OLD.

No one is ganging up on anyone here, and if any one, your buddy is just as guilty as anyone else than. You are instigating, and realistically you are just as guilty of what you accuse others of in this situation.

Where did Chef freak out over stew? I think anyone would have asked you what your problem was just like he did, seeing as how you said his food looked like dog sh**, and you did not stop with the obnoxious comments until you got a reaction....Chef let it slide 3 times before asking you....I think he handled it lightly.

Hoping for the best

Thanks Dom, it seems like most of our storms this year have turned to ice, huh?

Should be much much better in the morning. We are on hold here until some of this rain actually stops, want us to keep some of the snow/slush on the road so people can get some kind of traction.

Congrats, enjoy, and good luck with it.

In the truck plowing through the night again, so Italian combo sammich again

WTF

Noooo its not like THAT.

Lol, at least I looked into it, and really considered it, I avoid that entire area all together, unless its a wake/funeral. That should mean a lot to you.