José, a three-year-old boy from Colombia who was born missing his right hand, has received a 3D printed prosthetic arm created by e-NABLE community member Christian Silva.
Christian, a mechatronics engineer from Bogota, has personally built and fit e-NABLE hands to over 20 individuals over the past two and a half years.
Inspired by the stories coming from Open Bionics and Limbitless Solutions, who had created various superhero arms for children, Christian has now released the files for the Superhero e-NABLE arm. It is based on the existing designs of the Flexy arm by Christian himself, the Flexy hand 2 and the RT arm, and was developed in collaboration with Wilmer Garcia, Tarragona, Recreatech, M3D Foundation and the e-NABLE Colombia team.
It took them over a year to complete José’s arm due to the lack of funding and additional work they were engaged in to provide other children in the area with their own 3D printed arms.
Christian shares, “Now, José is very happy with his new “Iron Man” themed hand. He is 3 years old and has not rejected it and considers it like his favorite toy as well as his hand!”
Check out the video below to see José getting adjusted to his new “arm”:
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