e-NABLE project vote

Skellington finger

I suppose I don't need to explain in detail why we would need a default set of modification for all the major provided devices, including missing each finger and each combination of 2 fingers.

And finally the print in place design. This is NOT an accurate rendition, as this is taken from a different project. Idea being that you can print and replace your modular fingers in one go. May be actuated with wires or solid levers

I am not going to draw the exoskeleton idea, simply because I can't. However I do think it should be one of the primary ideas. Similarly with the rest of the ideas, they are either not drawable or I can't draw them.

Perhaps a quantitative analysis of the cases/conditions on web central that see the most difficulty with solving using current designs would dictate what design would be the most useful to pursue. My anecdotal observation is that eNABLE designs struggle to accomodate those with remaining partial fingers and don't work well for those with large remaining palms. Those cases require 3D scanning which still doesn't often result in a satifsfactory device. Workflows for using 3d scanning and printing together could be helpful. I also think the mimimal design concept could be a plausible solution for these cases, but a formal analysis would be needed.

I agree completely with Eric's anecdotal observations about the difficult cases on EWC.....residual full, or partial fingers and large, perhaps asymmetrical palms. I will add to this the need for an exoskeleton device which would activate fingers for someone who has full anatomy, but full or partial paralysis.