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title: Cheaper, Faster, Better: The Plan to Build an Open Source Prosthetic Hand — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/cheaper-faster-better-the-plan-to-build-an-open-source-prosthetic-hand/
date: 2015-08-25
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# Cheaper, Faster, Better: The Plan to Build an Open Source Prosthetic Hand

The Open Hand Project began when a engineer named Joel Gibbard quit his robotics job and moved in with his parents to focus on developing a cheap, fast robotic hand. Gibbard has spent almost five years on his prototype, called Dextrus, which can be built for under $1500 (compared to tens of thousands of dollars for custom hands) and which is different from conventional prosthetics in a few ways.