Father made a prosthetic arm for his son on a 3D printer
This is not one, but two very similar stories. In fact, there are already many such cases and there are additional links at the end of the article. With the advent of three-dimensional printers on the consumer market, these stories are becoming widespread.
Leon was born without fingers on his left hand, he has been living without a prosthesis for 12 years. Doctors say that the reason for the injury was the limited circulation in this limb when the baby was still in the womb ...
His father, Paul, for a long time tried to find an inexpensive and functional prosthesis, but the standard offers of orthopedic companies are traditionally very expensive - tens of thousands of dollars. Recently, Paul came across a video on the network, where the inventor Ivan Owen from Washington State showed a model of a palm prosthesis that anyone can download and print on a 3D printer. The prosthesis is attached to the forearm by the hand, and the movement of the wrist controls the fingers: they can be squeezed and released (all at the same time).
Paul is incredibly happy: having spent $ 2000 on a printer, he can now print out new dentures every day, experimenting with the design. The cost of plastic for printing a single prosthesis is only about $ 10.
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Richard Carpenter from South Africa lost four fingers on his arm as a result of an accident at work. He searched the Internet and found out that dentures sold online are not very functional and too expensive. Without falling into despair, he began work on the design of a prosthetic hand with functional fingers, calling for help 3D printing technology and a familiar designer from Seattle. According to him, at the cost of consumables, they met the $ 150. From the video frames you can understand why his model turned out to be more expensive - it is a much more complex mechanism than the prosthesis from the first video. A more sophisticated mechanism provides finer functionality.
Thanks to the media, the interested public learned about Richard and it turned out that he can, and most importantly, wants to help many adults and children. Such children, for example, are like little Liam, who on the same video demonstrates how skillfully he manages with his robotic arm.
Another video about Richard, shorter, but with Russian subtitles:
Leon was born without fingers on his left hand, he has been living without a prosthesis for 12 years. Doctors say that the reason for the injury was the limited circulation in this limb when the baby was still in the womb ...
His father, Paul, for a long time tried to find an inexpensive and functional prosthesis, but the standard offers of orthopedic companies are traditionally very expensive - tens of thousands of dollars. Recently, Paul came across a video on the network, where the inventor Ivan Owen from Washington State showed a model of a palm prosthesis that anyone can download and print on a 3D printer. The prosthesis is attached to the forearm by the hand, and the movement of the wrist controls the fingers: they can be squeezed and released (all at the same time).
Paul is incredibly happy: having spent $ 2000 on a printer, he can now print out new dentures every day, experimenting with the design. The cost of plastic for printing a single prosthesis is only about $ 10.
')
Richard Carpenter from South Africa lost four fingers on his arm as a result of an accident at work. He searched the Internet and found out that dentures sold online are not very functional and too expensive. Without falling into despair, he began work on the design of a prosthetic hand with functional fingers, calling for help 3D printing technology and a familiar designer from Seattle. According to him, at the cost of consumables, they met the $ 150. From the video frames you can understand why his model turned out to be more expensive - it is a much more complex mechanism than the prosthesis from the first video. A more sophisticated mechanism provides finer functionality.
Thanks to the media, the interested public learned about Richard and it turned out that he can, and most importantly, wants to help many adults and children. Such children, for example, are like little Liam, who on the same video demonstrates how skillfully he manages with his robotic arm.
Another video about Richard, shorter, but with Russian subtitles:
Related Links
- 3D-Printed Hand For Children's Dreams (Ukraine)
- We want to make a prosthesis with the help of 3D printing (Russia)
- The implant printed on a 3d-printer replaced 75% of the patient's skull surface (in English)
- Now even the ears are printed on the printers.
- 3d-printing gave a man a new face and a new life (in English)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/200808/
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