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Hands for Ziti: Teacher & Students from International School of Aruba Team Up to 3D Print e-NABLE Prosthetics
While many around the globe dream of visiting Aruba, situated west of the Lesser Antilles in the Southern Caribbean sea, they dream of white sandy beaches, long naps, and fru-fru…
Meet HU-GO, the Open Source DIY Low-Cost Wheelchair with 3D Printed Parts
Most able-bodied people don’t really understand exactly how expensive it is to be disabled in a world built for people who are not. I have heard several people, after reading…
Yu-Lia Gains a 3D Printed Hand Prosthetic; e-NABLE Volunteer Successfully Takes on Challenging Pinching Design
Projects regarding e-NABLE and 3D printed prosthetics are undoubtedly some of our favorites to write about. Using 3D printing to all its benefit, this is an organization that does massive…
Working to Enable the Future through 3D Printing in East Africa
When being bombarded with the latest evidence of humanity’s nasty and brutish side, it can be hard to remember that there are gleaming moments among the trash. The news media…
‘3D Printing Meets Human Needs’: 3D Systems Keynote at Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara Explores Opportunities in “3D Printing-Plus”
While yesterday’s morning keynote at Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara kicked the day off with an out-of-this-world look at technology with Made in Space President Andrew Rush, this morning’s keynote…
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…
Build Your Own–Tools for Sharing: Children to Receive 3D Printed e-NABLE Prosthetics at Norwich Castle
In an incredible juxtaposition of ancient and modern worlds, the Norwich Castle in England is the site of the latest Build Your Own: Tools for Sharing exhibit exhibition, offering many different…
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…
This 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand Has a Video Game Built Into It!
I can not emphasize how much the entire 3D printing space has benefited by the open source nature that it has exhibited. Whether it be the open sourcing of the…
Designer Creates 3D Printed Elbow & Upper Arm Prosthetic With Hand Actuation for Boy Without Elbow
While we’ve reported on e-NABLE countless times, with the latest being their new e-NABLE Community Foundation, as well as ongoing activities like assisting parents in taking on the 3D printing…
This 3D Printed Steampunk-Inspired ‘Iron Man’ Prosthetic Hand Exhibits Function & Beauty
Last September, we reported on a really elaborate 3D printed Ducati 1199 Superbike model, which a man named Jacky Wan (aka Valcrow) had designed. The bike, which at the time…
EnableCon2015 : e-NABLE Celebrates Another Year 3D Printing Affordable Protheses on Oct. 24th
It’s certainly no surprise that e-NABLE has their own annual conference–and this year will mark their second one. Being held on October 24th at the University of Washington Bothell, the…
e-NABLing Kids: Ellen Degeneres & The Gap Talk 3D Printed Hands With Torrae Owen
I can’t tell you how happy it make us that e-NABLE, the volunteer open source 3D printed hand organization, is finally getting the international publicity that it deserves. The amazing…
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…
Grad Student Develops Adaptive 3D Printed Trumpet Device for Ten-Year-Old Boy Missing Fingers
The trumpet can be one of the most difficult instruments to play, even when you’ve started out with something a little more challenging like violin or cello. Many music aficionados,…
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…
e-NABLE Wants Your Help in 3D Printing 1,000 Prosthetic Hands By Mid-September
e-NABLE has been happily providing 3D printable hand prosthetics to children, veterans and the disabled for almost three years now. In that time thousands of volunteers have helped produce over…
e-NABLE Joins Autodesk Foundation as ‘Impact Designer’ for 3D Printed Prosthetic Hands
There’s ongoing talk about industry being transformed by 3D printing. Manufacturing is in the middle of the next revolution. We’re going to build luxurious 3D printed eco-communities on the water,…
You3Dit Crowdsources 3D Design & Printing
The growing industry of 3D printing may seem inaccessible to the layman, but the creators of You3Dit.com are among those aiming to change that. They believe, as their site states, that…
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…
e-NABLE Divulges Plans for $600,000 Google Grant: Aims to Bring 3D Printed Prostheses to 6,000 More People in 2 Years
Late last month, we reported on a $600,000 grant that Google had awarded to e-NABLE, in order to help them more efficiently develop, share, and distribute 3D printed prosthetic hands…
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…
3D Systems Teams with e-NABLE to Create All New 3D Printed K-1 Prosthetic Hand & Bring the Technology to All
When you talk about the largest 3D printing companies in the world, one company which would certainly be at or toward the top of that list is 3D Systems. Founded…
