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My name is David Aguilar, I'm 22 and I hold
the record for being the first to build a
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fully functioning prosthetic Lego arm. I was born with Poland Syndrome,
it's a genetic disease that affects only one person out of 20,000
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At first it might feel like it's not useful
but I use it every day on different things
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like working, doing stuff at the gym, building Lego. And when I was
young I suffered from bullying from some of my classmates and yeah I can
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say it was pretty hard being the different one. Four years ago I
was laying in my bed and I was kind of bored so I took a look at my
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room and I saw this Lego helicopter that was
sitting on my desk and I decided to dismantle it
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This single brick was used to make my
first prosthetic out of Lego Technic
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It's very simple actually, once I pull my
elbow up the fingers close because there are
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some airline headphones that I wanted to reuse
and give them another purpose and the mechanism
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is as simple as this. I don't need something very fancy
working like mechanically, just to move the simpler
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part of the prosthetic which is the front
and then right here as I told before there's
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this like mountain that fits into my hand
valley and when I close this little screw
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you can see the whole section fits to my arm
as tight as possible and once I start hearing
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like a click, okay that means that there's
no more room inside and the prosthetic can
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be steeled and I can move it on my own. The only limitation that
I had with my first prosthetic was that I only used one Lego set
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and this is why I don't have this challenge
anymore because on my computer I designed
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my prosthetics in a digital software called
Studio and after that I can order the bricks
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and I can build something that I
had on my computer a few weeks ago
