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My little brother sprained his foot a view days ago. He couldn't put much weight on it, and where we didn't carry him, he hopped and crawled. Someone gave him a stick to hobble around on, but he didn't like it very much, and it scratched up our nice wood floors, so I modified it a bit.
The stick is just a sawed off broom/rake handle. I took a piece of wood from another project (it's actually a piece of a branch from the woods, peeled, cut and sanded) and nailed it to the top to make a handle he could grasp more easily. Then I cut a rubber bouncy ball in half and attached it with putty to the bottom so he could use it inside on the wood floors.
I gave it to him, and he was delighted! He used it more like a cane or walking stick, but it could also easily work as a crutch, especially if you made a set of them. He used it for about 15 minutes, then left it somewhere and forgot it so had to get up without using it.
Whereupon he discovered he could walk on the foot now! Most excellent news. And now we have a stick for next time one of the little kids hurts themselves...
The stick is just a sawed off broom/rake handle. I took a piece of wood from another project (it's actually a piece of a branch from the woods, peeled, cut and sanded) and nailed it to the top to make a handle he could grasp more easily. Then I cut a rubber bouncy ball in half and attached it with putty to the bottom so he could use it inside on the wood floors.
I gave it to him, and he was delighted! He used it more like a cane or walking stick, but it could also easily work as a crutch, especially if you made a set of them. He used it for about 15 minutes, then left it somewhere and forgot it so had to get up without using it.
Whereupon he discovered he could walk on the foot now! Most excellent news. And now we have a stick for next time one of the little kids hurts themselves...
I must admit to having this terrible, sappy image of Tiny Tim in black and white run through my mind. It must be the season :-)
The AT group is one of the coolest groups I've seen on the site. I just wish there were even more ibles in it. I think my favorite so far is that cable car for Grandma. That one was awesome.
Tiny Tim XD
He did look kind of like that! He was pititful. Fortunately little kids heal fast.
You and several of the others (plus two lurkers I've never heard of :-?). But not Kiteman, sniff, sniff
>> The AT group is one of the coolest groups I've seen on the site. I just wish
>> there were even more ibles in it. I think my favorite so far is that cable car for
>> Grandma. That one was awesome.
Thank you! I created it mainly to have somewhere to put my crib project, and then went through most of the I'bles repository to populate it. Unfortunately, like most groups few people know it's around, so it doesn't get any traffic. There also aren't so many AT-related I'bles around (I do keep my eye out), and it seems that forum topics can't be cross-posted (just redirected by admins).
Heehee, I haz a subscription from Kiteman. :-P Actually, I think he even beats out ewilhelm for subscriptions (he had 44 last I checked). Even some of the staff subscribe to Kiteman. I'm playing catch-up with only 19! :D
It's too bad it hasn't been featured, IMO it deserves to be. That and its brethren, the two prosthetics groups. I've always wanted to design my own arm! I have a rough mental sketch of it, with air muscles, a wifi detector, built in pda and LED fingertips just for fun... :D
Great thinking monk, a job well done!
P.S. Am I the only one that calls you monk? everyone else seems to call you adrian.....
Well, I just used regular putty. Anyone making this would probably want to use glue, but super glue didn't work and Amazing GOOP takes forever to set and I wanted it now. The ball held on pretty good, just as long as the putty doesn't get so hot it melts and you don't pick the putty off it works.
Hmm, KJL a few others users call me monk, but yes, most people just go with Adrian. I'm fine with whatever you want to use. :)
God bless us, everyone!