E-nable is a non profit organisation that
gathers a group of people who have come together from all over the world to
help create and design 3D Printed assistive hand devices for those in need. They
create open source designs for mechanical hand assistive devices that can be
downloaded and 3D printed for a very affordable price as for instance 50$. Their
designs are open source, this means that anyone and anywhere can download and
create them.
The E-Nable team use now a new online
customization tool, the “Hand-O-Matic”, which generates a 3D printable hand
based on the measurements of a given individual. The tool works as follows, you
first enter the width across your knuckles and the length of the palm and then
you have the “Raptor hand”. Then you can add several options and finally once the model is completed the
site emails the .stl to the customer for 3D printing anywhere. Thanks to
E-nable, the practice of 3D printing low-cost prosthetics is growing very fast.
This was also put in place through the distributed manufacturing technology and
through the Internet that allows which facilitates the sharing of information.
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