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3D Printed e-NABLE Hands Inspire Po Paraguay
In the States, the e-NABLE model is pretty straightforward: people who need hand prostheses ask for help, and e-NABLE asks their network of volunteer 3D printers to deliver them their…
Engineer in Brazil 3D Prints & Personally Delivers e-NABLE Hand Prosthetics to Children
When we talk about helping, making a difference, or donating money or things–most promises and efforts seem to pale in comparison with the assistance e-NABLE programs provide–and the impacts they are…
Even e-NABLE Needs a Helping Hand Once in Awhile–Including in Malaysia
When Ew Chee Guan entered a 3D design and printing contest being thrown by office product reseller Ricoh Malaysia he was hoping to just win enough money to continue to…
Open Bionics Wins the UK James Dyson Award for 3D Printed Myoelectric Hand
Back at CES 2015, a young man by the named of Joel Gibbard made headlines with his company Open Bionics and a 3D printed prosthetic hand that he had created. Unlike…
Five Year Old With 3D Printed Hand Throws Out First Pitch for the Baltimore Orioles
While watching five-year-old Hailey Dawson stride out to the Baltimore Orioles pitcher’s mound you can’t help but notice how nonchalant she is about the whole experience. After effortly tossing out the…
Parents 3D Print Five Prosthetic Hands from e-NABLE for 8-Year-Old with Symbrachydactyly
There’s nothing more inspirational than seeing parents go all out to try to make something right for their child, to improve their quality of life–and to see them succeed. While…
Take a Trip Down Elm Street for Halloween & 3D Print This Freddy Krueger Glove
3D printing and Halloween are an undeniably winning combination. Previously All Hallow’s Eve was not my favorite holiday, as I’m usually trying to avoid eating handfuls of chocolate, and sewing…
8th Grade Class 3D Prints an Amazing Prosthetic ‘Spider-Man’ Hand for 5-Year-Old Dante
The greatest deterrent preventing most schools around the world from introducing 3D printing into their classrooms is the simple fact that teachers and school administrators, as well as other decision makers…
Biohand: An Inexpensive 3D Printed Open Source Prosthetic
Martin Vincent Bloedorn is a Brazilian CAD enthusiast who says he enjoys learning languages from C++ to Japanese, “fiddling on my 3D printer,” and playing the drums. This project from…
South Africa’s 3D Printed Mechanical ‘Tenim Hand’ Allows for Individual Finger Control
Let’s be real: I love 3D printed fun things as much as the next person–I have two 3D printed dragons on my desk as I write–but the best part of…
Massachusetts Librarian Lends Guatemalan Burn Victim a 3D Printed Helping Hand
Welmer Cordova was horribly burned in a gas explosion in Guatemala. The explosion killed two of Cordova’s sisters, and now at 20 years old, he was preparing to deal with…
Nu Hand – A 3D Printed Anatomically Correct Prosthetic Hand Hits Kickstarter
One of the most interesting uses for 3D printing technology over the past couple of years has been that of creating prosthetic hands. There are literally hundreds or perhaps even…
Disaster Relief: ‘Field Ready’ & ‘Bold Machines’ Create 100% 3D Printed Prosthetic Hands & More
When disaster strikes, humanitarian aid is a high priority. This was especially true recently in Nepal, and several years ago in Haiti. These poverty stricken nations simply don’t have the…
SLS Nylon 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand Seeks Funding on GoFundMe
Hollie was born with Amniotic Band Syndrome (ABS), a condition that occurs when a fetus becomes entangled in the fibrous amniotic hands in the womb, thereby restricting blood flow and…
exiii Releases Design Files for Amazing 3D Printed HACKberry Bionic Hand
Back in March, we did a story on a Japanese company called exiii, which had come up with quite the amazing new 3D printed myoelectric bionic hand that was controlled…
Google Awards e-NABLE With a $600,000 Grant to 3D Print Prosthetic Hands
If there is one sub-category within the 3D printing space that we have covered the most over the past year and a half, it would probably be the 3D printing…
Michael Repajic Looks to 3D Print Prosthetic Hands for Los Angeles’ Homeless
As you probably already know, 3D printing can be used for a lot of different things. However, if there was one cause for which I have seen the greatest support…
Australian Man 3D Prints Incredible Exoskeleton Hand
One of the things that makes the world of 3D printing so wild and wonderful is that it isn’t a closed group of people whose job it is to run…
Survey Says? Less Than One in Four People Would Knowingly Eat 3D Printed Food Products
According to a survey from the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, the odds are that if you knew a piece of food on your plate was 3D printed, you wouldn’t…
Corban University’s Baseball Team, e-NABLE & 3D Printing Make Oregon Boy’s Dreams Come True
If there’s anything Dawson Riverman has learned, it’s that community makes us all better, stronger, and more capable of realizing our dreams. The Oregon teenager was born without fingers on…
15-year-old Star Wars Fan Receives Darth Vader-esque 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand
Over the past year or so, we have covered dozens of stories of 3D printed prosthetic hands, most of which have been created by a group of volunteers from e-NABLE….
DIYer Designs and 3D Prints Low-Cost Prosthetic “Galileo Hand”
On Instructables a man named Ali Lemus applied his DIY and 3D printing know-how to creating an affordable prosthetic hand and then shared his process and downloadable .stl files at no cost,…
Open Bionics’ 3D Printed Robotic Hand is “World’s Most Advanced” and Ready to High-Five
“Shaking Daniel’s hand was incredible. It didn’t even feel like a robot hand, the way it gripped me, it felt just like Dan was shaking my hand,” said Jonny Melville after…
One-Handed Boy Plays One Heck of a Guitar Thanks to Custom 3D Printed Prosthesis
If we were to go back in time just 10 years, most of us would probably not have ever envisioned a person with only one hand playing a guitar — at…