30/03/2022
Space Pirate Prosthetic 🦾
This is a throwback to a uni project I worked on last year.
The brief was ‘space pirate’, which gave me some fun ideas 🏴☠️ 🪐
I had a failed print in the process 🙄
I decided to turn that in to an aged, battle-worn piece, which then got used within the ‘story’ as the ‘authentic article’ of our character, with the intact arm shown as a reproduction.
This design is used as a genuine prosthetic for people who don’t have fingers but retain their palm, and allows the fingers to flex when the wrist is bent.
The full arm is functional, albeit a little stiff in use, due to the use of EL wire instead of elastic, but the way it lights up is so mesmerising! 🤩
I wish I knew how many times I shocked myself when doing the wiring for those lights, I’m fairly sure my hair will never lay flat again 🤣
Check out my stories to follow the process! 🤓
What are your thoughts? 😊