I finally ordered first articles of the winder assembly from PCBway, also I'll be attending Open Sauce this weekend in San Francisco. come and see me at the PCBway booth!
So many people I didn’t expect to show at open sauce, William is really doing something big. Bringing all these like minds together my feed is blown up with engineering RU-vidrs talking about it!!
I think this is the coolest prosthesis that seem to bring sci fi cyberpunk to life. I hope the very best for you and would love to see a documentary of you, your invention and how it comes together as a household name. Good luck and thank you for sharing.
I continue to be thrilled with how much time and effort you have spent on this project. While I still have full use of both of my hands ( I nearly lost partial use of my dominant hand to a crushing accident in my 20's) I know many people who will benefit from your work once the kit is available. I'm so amazed at how far you have taken purely mechanical prosthetics from the hooks that were used by my elders in the 1970's.
Dude, you need to show a video of you meeting Cody'slab. He is gonna freak out over your hand, he's a start to finish make it from scratch guy. And I'd freak out seeing you two together
This messes with my brain. I can see it's clearly a prosthetic hand, but the movements flow so well with the rest of his body language, my mind is saying "this guy clearly has 2 hands, why are you freaking out". Its a masterpiece.
over half a million yt subs should be well more than enough to make a good living, please make a few calls to some social media management companies and one of them will get you hooked up. you should be clearing $80k without issue at this point.
Social Media Management company: Okay, want to pay the bills? Start pumping out funny meme videos for a zoomer-oriented audience! Also, children lullabies with disturbing images, and soap-cutting compilation videos with disturbing AI-generated stories about families getting murdered in the background! But if you want to earn the big big bucks, it's time to learn how to draw pregnant Frozen characters, Elsagate is back in style baby! Remember, preying on kids is THE number one way to earn money! Just don't let RU-vid slap the "kid-friendly" tag on the video, that will zap your AdSense money away, and you want the kids to watch ALL the ads because they're too stupid to skip them or install ad blocking software! Easy money! Okay, that's it for social media managing, that will be $50k, cash only to avoid taxes.
Obviously I'm not Ian, but he did discuss this in a previous video. He said that they tend to already know who he is and have seen his channel, and the only thing they weren't sure about was the wristwatch he had installed on one of his devices LOL! I do hope Mr. Ian gets a chance to respond to your question directly to properly elaborate.
I haven't had any issues getting through tsa either domestically or international. I don't take it off, I just go through the body scanner, they swab my hand for explosive residue, and send me on my way. The last couple of times, one or both of the agents have seen my videos and pull me aside just so they can get a better look at it and talk to me. When I was in Frankfurt, flying home from Maker Central, I was selected for extra screening. The guy running it had seen my videos and knew exactly who I was. He ended up giving my spiel to the other agents. It was pretty cool.
Have you ever watched the show violet evergarden? I've seen your progress in bit and pieces on the internet and every time I see it I think about her arms. I'm sure having a whole arm be mechanical is a bit of tv magic but I just find them so amazing especially when they show her doing maintenance on them or breaking them.
The Afl4 (the one with the cartoid latch) actually weighs 500g less than the Aft3 (the one with the watch). The Afl4 weights just under 2#. It's because I'm using mag aluminum for everything.
Because of the very high drive ratio between the link sections, any bearing play is magnified terribly. .002 turns into .010 pretty fast, then you go to the end of the fingers and it turns into actual measurements. It's not a "got to have" change, more of it bugs me on principle, "I'd like it better if it was like this" change. After all, I'm trying to produce something that is super durable, reliable, and relatively maintenance free.
Should I be embarrassed to not know what bearing play or drive ratio is? I get so intimidated by mechanical terminology. But I'll tell you this: it sounds like you're into quality of life, efficiency, cost and reliability issues. I'm glad form and function seems to be almost done!
I've never had a problem going through the airport wearing it. Both domestic and international. Last time I flew through Germany I get pulled into secondary security because the guy running it recognized me and wanted to meet me. It was pretty cool. When I flew back to the US one of the people running intake was a fan and had been watching my posts, and was like "I was wondering if I was going to see you today."
Would you ever consider working on advanced prosthesis projects on college research facilities as an in house assistant/researcher? If anyone could help develop the mechanics of bionic hands its you, someone whos done it from the ground up. Which reminds me, do you have a mechanical engineering job unrelated to youtube?
