3D printing

Here's a "quick'n'dirty" prosthetic hand my engineering team at school slapped together for the term project last week.

It's ABS plastic and was designed in Solidworks. The device is meant for victims of political turmoil in least developed countries that may have lost digits in explosions or shootings.

There were a lot constraints involved for the assignment; we had way better ideas and designs than this, but we were limited to a 36-hour print-time and all thirteen individual pieces had to fit within an 8" x 8" plate.

We ended up winning the competition against 4 other teams.

When I started school, I thought the 3D Printer was the refrigerator for the engineering design lab.