Dean Kamen to Talk at World Maker Faire
The 5th annual World Maker Faire NY opens soon! Kicking off the weekend will be a talk titled “Investing in Today for a Secure Tomorrow” by legendary inventor and maker Dean Kamen.
prosthetics
Gorgeous 3D Printed Prosthetic Born of Boredom
Evan Kuester, like many students, found his course work to be less than inspiring. However, he did have access to some really cool tools, such as a large 3D printer that started his mind wandering. Evan had noticed a fellow student on campus a few times. The thing that he noticed was that she had […]
Make the World: Prosthetics Build Party
Adafruit Industries just hosted the final session of their Make The World: Prosthetics Program. To help out, Matt Stultz of 3D Printing Providence put together a build party at AS220 Labs with 19 local 3D printers to make prosthetic hands for those in need.
Help a MAKE Fan by Giving him the Finger
Design the coolest or craziest prosthetic finger for a MAKE reader.
Project Open Hand: Building a Low Cost Robotic Prosthetic Hand
One of the most exciting developments to emerge out of the maker community is the growth of robotic prosthetics. Robots that play games, throw balls, and follow lines around a room are neat, but it’s great to see the development of robots that do something useful, like improving the lives of people who’ve lost their hands.
Building a Better You: Makers Hack the Human Body
Aided by affordable materials, 3D printers, and open source technology, the merging of human and machine is a thriving subset of the maker community. Next week’s World Maker Faire New York will showcase a number of these projects and the makers who made them. These projects are also a testament to the best impulses of human nature: once we possess new skills and technology we look for ways to use them as a force for good and to share them with others.
