Update February 1, 2023 (updates from Eric): 

January 24, 2023: Mónica García just finished another one! Ready to deliver now. One more printed and will be built next.

 

January 25, 2023: Another arm done by Mónica García! This one is special. Our recipient has literally been wearing away the palm and fingers! This is the person doing concrete work with it. So the forearm and cuff are carbon fiber PETG and the hand and fingers are carbon fiber polycarbonate. About as wear resistant as we can get!

 

 

January 26, 2023:  First test hand cast a success! This will help immensely with the hands we are having so much trouble fitting.

 

January 28, 2023:

One day shipping and a happy recipient of the new tougher arm. We love our work! Hope it serves him well. 

 

 

 Update January 20, 2023 (update from Eric):

A big day today. One of the people who was a double amputee lost both of his prosthetic arms in an emergency. So we were able to see him equipped once more!

 

 

 

Also had our first visit with a couple. He lost a hand in a robbery to a machete. He has had trouble getting jobs since and has five kids. Hoping a new prosthetic will change that for him. We should have one for him in about a week!      I am always amazed at the difference these can make in a life. Very humbling that we can be used for such a job as this.

 

 

 

 Update January 17, 2023 (update from Eric):  

Learning new skills! Learning to make plaster models for 3D scanning:

 

 

 January 12, 2023 (update from Eric): 

Two carbon microfiber filled PETG arms ready to deliver!...

 

 

 Update January 5, 2023:

Note from the home office:  Eric now has the laptop he needs to work with the new Desktop 3D Scanner, thanks to friends bringing it with them.  It arrived in great condition, thanks to being hand carried!

 

Updates from Eric:

January 5: Progress on arm #1

 

 

 

January 4: One ready to thermoform and build, and the next arm started! Hoping our box shows up from the USA, I need more of this particular filament.

 

 

January 3:  More parts!

 

 

January 2, 2023:   New Year, new arms started!

 

 December 31, 2022:

New years eve project. Need a flexible mixing bowl for the plaster of paris that will hopefully find us next week. So, it's order one in, or print one with flexible TPU filament, which I just so happen to have on hand. Just getting it started.

 

 

 Update December 18, 2022: (updates from Eric):

December 17:  Our ability to help is growing! Waiting for the computer for it to arrive now.   This will make some harder cases easier and allow us to do some we haven't been able to take on with the help of some great people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 December 12:  Just finished this new hand for a person who was difficult to fit with our standard 3D model. Let's pray this works for him! We are working on a possible better solution next year.

 

 

 

 Update December 7, 2022 (updates from Eric):

Mónica García putting together a special custom hand. This one has been a challenge but we are getting close!

 

 

December 1:

This one is being shipped out today!

 

 

 

November 28:

Today's projects. Finished thermoforming and getting an arm ready for Mónica García to finish building tomorrow.   Been using up some ABS filament that was donated but we don't use a great deal of to makes some toys for kids Christmas toys.   Started printing a cuff assembly for a very challenging hand a few minutes ago.  Always something going on!