This 19-Year-Old Iron Man Fan Built A Fully Functional Prosthetic Arms From Lego Bricks

YouTube is full of budding inventors, tinkers, and more, all modding everyday stuff into something cool.

Not many of them do their modding with Legos though, and even fewer are working on their own bodies. At that confluence sits David Aguilar.

The 19-year-old, who goes by the name HandSolo online runs a YouTube channel where he first began posting drum pad covers of his favourite songs. Over the past year though, he's taken to building prosthetic replacements for his missing left completely out of Lego bricks, and he's doing a phenomenal job.

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The bioengineering student told Reuters he's been building prosthetic models since he was nine years old, and is currently on his third edition of the prototype he recently built. He calls it the HandSolo Mk III, an homage to both Han Solo and Tony Stark.

"As a child I was very nervous to be in front of other guys, because I was different, but that didn't stop me believing in my dreams," he told the news agency. "I wanted to ... see myself in the mirror like I see other guys, with two hands."

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It's not just for fun though, the end goal is to apply everything he's learned to give back to the disabled community. Right now, movable prosthetic limbs can cost anywhere between $5,000 (Rs 3.53 lakh) to $50,000 (Rs 35.3 lakh). And that's not even considering maintenance costs. For a disabled person hard up on finances, that's unaffordable.

"I would try to give them a prosthetic," Aguilar told Reuters, "even if it's for free, to make them feel like a normal person, because what is normal, right?"