OPP In the News · 14 July 06 by Chuck Messer
The Open Prosthetics Project has been flooded with visitors today thanks to robots.net and makezine.com. Robots.net has blogged about Tackle Design before when we did our DIY bomb disposal robot. We appreciate the links and welcome all of the new visitors.
The Open Prosthetics Project is moving along but since it is currently a project of passion and not pay, we are keeping the lights on with other projects and working on OPP as we have available time. Of course, you can always help us dedicate more of our time to the project by donating. We are working on getting non-profit status thanks to some pro bono help from Wyrick & Robbins, but for now, any donations you make are not tax deductible. Of course, we are as open with the finances of this project as we are with the designs and will publish all of the donations as well as what we do with the money.
At the moment we’re also working with Instructables to launch a community group to support easier documentation of Open Prosthetics innovations. Along with prosthetics technologies keep an eye out for innovations from Engineering World Health, a group dedicated to developing accessible medical technology for developing countries (see the related post for information another EWH/Tackle Design collaboration for Jaundice treatment). Thanks to the Instructables team for posting two existing EWH innovations. Similar to the Open Prosthetics group, Instructables will be hosting EWH’s documentation. We encourage other like-minded groups to consider using the Instructables platform and community to share their work. Thanks to the folks at Instructables and SQUID-Labs for all their support!
