{"id":7222,"date":"2015-06-08T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2015-06-08T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:40:50","slug":"date-night-with-an-e-nable-3d-printed-hand-prosthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2015\/06\/date-night-with-an-e-nable-3d-printed-hand-prosthetic.html","title":{"rendered":"Date night with an e-NABLE 3D Printed Hand Prosthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Confirming<\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday night, my husband David, proposed a great date. \u00a0He asked, “how would you like to stay\u00a0home tonight and\u00a0assemble the e-NABLE hand.” \u00a0\u00a0This was a great idea for two engineers!<\/p>\n

My work with Fab Labs, Sarah Boisvert’s Lend a Hand to Make a Hand <\/a>project, and schools using SOLIDWORKS and 3D Printers to create prosthetics, made me realize that I have seen many hands being printed, but I never assembled one. \u00a0Tonight would be different.<\/p>\n

The e-NABLE Hand project was started by Jon Schull, a research scientist in RIT’s Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC). In 2013, Jon created a community to advance the development of affordable prosthetic devices. \u00a0The EnablingtheFuture<\/a> community now has 1000’s of volunteers and has created hands for hundreds of people.<\/p>\n

\"e_NABLE<\/p>\n

My first lesson was that 3D printed community hands have names. \u00a0We would be working on “Rapture” hand. \u00a0The components were printed on a Makerbot that resides \u00a0on my kitchen table for this summer project. The 3D printed components need to be assembled. \u00a0You could go to an arts and craft store like Michaels.com to purchase these items.<\/p>\n

But to save time, David purchased a 3D Universe Rapture hand kit. \u00a0Jeremy Simon and Aleksander Jones started 3DUniverse<\/a>\u00a0and put together a kit of parts required to assemble the e-NABLE Rapture hand. \u00a0The kit contains wire, screws, Velcro, foam padding, elastic cord, and\u00a0Lee Tippi Micro Gel Fingertip Grips. \u00a0We followed their video <\/a>to show how to assemble the hand.<\/p>\n

\"Assembling<\/a><\/p>\n

The next step was to determine the order of the fingers. \u00a0The fingers are slightly different in size.<\/p>\n

\"Confirming<\/p>\n

Since there are many parts that were nested together in a single 3D print, we \u00a0verify each part.<\/p>\n

\"Hand<\/p>\n

Physical assembly was straight forward – just the removal of a few burrs.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/p>\n

Cable and wire assembly was more challenging, twisting and pushing wire through holes. \u00a0So we tried\u00a0different options. \u00a0How about a twisty tie? \u00a0 First, the twisty tie around the cable didn’t work. The twisty tie did clear a path through the slots that showed promise.<\/p>\n

.\"Curving<\/p>\n

With, the twisty tie I thought of sewing. \u00a0 Remove the paper from the twisty tie – or use thin wire. \u00a0Wrap the twisty tie around the cable and twist. \u00a0\"Threading<\/p>\n

Curve the twisty tie to form a curved “needle: \u00a0Now you can pull the cable or wire through the more challenging holes.<\/p>\n

\"Tension<\/a><\/p>\n

You need to set the fingers up at an angle, having an object to elevate the hand\u00a0and set the angle works well in keeping tension on each finger.<\/p>\n

\"Bracking<\/a><\/p>\n

There are more SOLIDWORKS models and 3D printed hands\u00a0we\u00a0plan\u00a0to investigate over the summer. \u00a0 I have another date next Saturday night. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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