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