Multi-Material Rapid Prototyping of Anatomic Musculoskeletal Hand and Joints
World Maker Faire 2017
MAKER
Julia Haskins
I am an 18-year-old maker who is passionate about 3D printing and biotechnology. During my gap year between high school and college, I am planning to volunteer on a project to make low-cost, 3D printed prostheses in Central America, and other things!
Multi-Material Rapid Prototyping of Anatomic Musculoskeletal Hand and Joints: For my high school senior project, I created a low-cost, 3D-printed anatomical hand model with flexible, material-enabled joints.
What inspired you to make this project?:
I am very interested in the intersection of 3D printing and bio-engineering. I became fascinated with the work of E-NABLE, an organization that provides open source models of 3D printed hands and connects makers with potential recipients, when I exhibited some of the projects that my high school 3D printing club was working on at the NOVA MakerFaire in April 2017. I also found out that there was a Floating Fab Lab that travels down the Amazon. I wanted to learn more about 3D printed prostheses, so I reached out to a mentor at the University of Connecticut, and we experimented with using a more flexible filament for the joints. I am taking a gap year between high school and college, and I hope that I can develop a useful 3D printed prosthetic hand during that time.
