Former gunsmith with a bit of machining experience who's been 3D printing for almost 2 years now. I absolutely love your videos and the concepts you delve into when it comes to designing around 3D printing. Keep up the great work
Im a veteran who is getting my first printer here in a few weeks. Ive wanted to utilize 3d printing to give back to fellow veterans like 3d print MRI/CT scans of injuries as I am in the process of doing it for myself. The last few days i was thinking about the space of prosethetics being a good use for 3d printing and then today your video came out! Perfect timing. I think youve convinced me to carry on with my idea. Thanks for your vids and hopefully can get some more information about prosthetics from people commenting.
You can try small 3d scanners like Creality Ferret - they can be picked up for as cheap as 220 bucks and are enough to model for an end of a limb that was removed.
I use prosthetics legs. Both of them. I was born without them. And like you, i think Hugh Herr is AWESOME! I´m from Argentina, and recently had some big problems with my medical health care, so i started to seek for 3d printed alternatives... The problems are now fixed, and im using a new set of prosthetic legs, but i would feel a lot safer if i can get some alternatives if problems occur again... About that foot, can you share more information about it? What filament did you used? Is durable? What about the clamping part? Will be standard?
I have been a practing ptosthetist for the last decade. 3d printing is coming along. There are several 3D printed prosthetic and orthotic devices being sold. M fingers are 3d printed. The fingers on the psyonic ability hand are partially 3d printed. Several cranial remolding orthoses are 3d printed. I also use 3d printed test sockets to help refine the fit of the devices.
Ian Davis ran across the problem of getting certs and regs required for anyone to be interested in his work. He's currently using a Prusa XL to do some mixed TPU finger tips, although his prosthesis is metal and purely mechanical. He's got a youtube channel that documents his journey. But ya, it's just not profitable to make cheap prosthetics, ironically.
My 12yo daughter is an lbk amputee and a nationally recognized athlete in track and field, as well as an axcomolished snowboarder. I've been eyeing this for a while because we're intimately familiar with the issues you mentioned. Would love a deeper video on this topic. I'm going to spend more time on this as well.
Printables /other stl file sites need to have reoccuring annual competions for designing prosthetics. These really need to be available to the masses that need it.
If you look up the Battle Angel movie making-of stuff, the design of her initial prosthetic body was very artistic. I feel that touches like that need to be more normal.
Hi , I really appreciate your position on printing 3D prosthetics. I see too a lot of potentiality....and there are also some hurdles. Let me explain : 1) moving from a medical type of equipment to a "consumer " equipment requires some change in mind / 2) the time spent on desiging the file plus print is greater than the revenu you can draw for it. I term of business model , the real added value here is the design, not anymore the 3D manufacturing. and when you move to design , then the "customers" are more demanding, and then you spend more time on the desing ;-). The 3) is the material. You have to be really carefull about what you sell as you might get sued for any injuries that my result of using your Prosthetic. I have been designing some prosthetic covers for some times ..... the funny thing is that here in France , all the comanies that have attempted on this market crashed after 2years. Not to mention the lobbying from medical companies..... I have a lot of hope for this in the future...! Minds need to evolve still a bit 🙂
While I was RIT I workeded with the eNABLE group who started the 3D printed hands. Your "lore filler" about how 3D printed prosthetics can benefit kids was almost word-for-word how they described the need for the hands. I also managed to sneak into Herr's lab at MIT during a spring break trip once, and I unfortunately didn't manage to find him there at that time.
Since you have some of the knowledge required to design prosthetics and have all kinds of Design for 3D Printing knowledge, you folks should budget in some time for this and share it with your audience so they can run with it. For example, you could devote Friday afternoons to it.
do you have any specific pointers for getting into the 3d prosthetics? its one of the use cases that really inspired me to do more prototype making, but now that I have a printer I'm not sure quite where to start. I have engineering background and tech background, so just looking for where to start.
The problem is everyones amputation is different. So each prosthetic needs tailored specifically to each person its for so the money saved 3d printing is minimal. At that point its better to just go with a proven material. Personally i wouldnt trust a 3d printed prosthetic.
Former gunsmith with a bit of machining experience who's been 3D printing for almost 2 years now. I absolutely love your videos and the concepts you delve into when it comes to designing around 3D printing. Keep up the great work
Thank you so much
I'm actually working on some 3D printed prosthetics for my senior design project for college !!!
Fantastic!
Im a veteran who is getting my first printer here in a few weeks. Ive wanted to utilize 3d printing to give back to fellow veterans like 3d print MRI/CT scans of injuries as I am in the process of doing it for myself. The last few days i was thinking about the space of prosethetics being a good use for 3d printing and then today your video came out! Perfect timing. I think youve convinced me to carry on with my idea. Thanks for your vids and hopefully can get some more information about prosthetics from people commenting.
Great to hear
You can try small 3d scanners like Creality Ferret - they can be picked up for as cheap as 220 bucks and are enough to model for an end of a limb that was removed.
I use prosthetics legs. Both of them. I was born without them. And like you, i think Hugh Herr is AWESOME!
I´m from Argentina, and recently had some big problems with my medical health care, so i started to seek for 3d printed alternatives... The problems are now fixed, and im using a new set of prosthetic legs, but i would feel a lot safer if i can get some alternatives if problems occur again...
About that foot, can you share more information about it? What filament did you used? Is durable? What about the clamping part? Will be standard?
I have been a practing ptosthetist for the last decade. 3d printing is coming along. There are several 3D printed prosthetic and orthotic devices being sold. M fingers are 3d printed. The fingers on the psyonic ability hand are partially 3d printed. Several cranial remolding orthoses are 3d printed.
I also use 3d printed test sockets to help refine the fit of the devices.
Ian Davis ran across the problem of getting certs and regs required for anyone to be interested in his work. He's currently using a Prusa XL to do some mixed TPU finger tips, although his prosthesis is metal and purely mechanical. He's got a youtube channel that documents his journey. But ya, it's just not profitable to make cheap prosthetics, ironically.
My 12yo daughter is an lbk amputee and a nationally recognized athlete in track and field, as well as an axcomolished snowboarder. I've been eyeing this for a while because we're intimately familiar with the issues you mentioned.
Would love a deeper video on this topic. I'm going to spend more time on this as well.
We need a handfinity system!
"limbfinity"?
Printables /other stl file sites need to have reoccuring annual competions for designing prosthetics. These really need to be available to the masses that need it.
If you look up the Battle Angel movie making-of stuff, the design of her initial prosthetic body was very artistic.
I feel that touches like that need to be more normal.
SpaceX is also 3d printing most of their engines too. Yep, awesome stuff.
Hi , I really appreciate your position on printing 3D prosthetics. I see too a lot of potentiality....and there are also some hurdles. Let me explain : 1) moving from a medical type of equipment to a "consumer " equipment requires some change in mind / 2) the time spent on desiging the file plus print is greater than the revenu you can draw for it. I term of business model , the real added value here is the design, not anymore the 3D manufacturing. and when you move to design , then the "customers" are more demanding, and then you spend more time on the desing ;-). The 3) is the material. You have to be really carefull about what you sell as you might get sued for any injuries that my result of using your Prosthetic. I have been designing some prosthetic covers for some times ..... the funny thing is that here in France , all the comanies that have attempted on this market crashed after 2years. Not to mention the lobbying from medical companies..... I have a lot of hope for this in the future...! Minds need to evolve still a bit 🙂
While I was RIT I workeded with the eNABLE group who started the 3D printed hands. Your "lore filler" about how 3D printed prosthetics can benefit kids was almost word-for-word how they described the need for the hands.
I also managed to sneak into Herr's lab at MIT during a spring break trip once, and I unfortunately didn't manage to find him there at that time.
Since you have some of the knowledge required to design prosthetics and have all kinds of Design for 3D Printing knowledge, you folks should budget in some time for this and share it with your audience so they can run with it. For example, you could devote Friday afternoons to it.
do you have any specific pointers for getting into the 3d prosthetics? its one of the use cases that really inspired me to do more prototype making, but now that I have a printer I'm not sure quite where to start. I have engineering background and tech background, so just looking for where to start.
What's up with your filament line?
I pretty sure it is not Etsy, it is based on new government regulations on dropshipping.
I can't get my lamps to sell like I'd hoped.
I wonder if Etsy saw a big spike in AI-generated pictures being sold on POD shirts, etc, and threw the baby out with the bathwater trying to stop it.
Is Etsy cleaning up “loose ends” in preparation for some M&A activity?
That yellow hook looks way too much like a Lego Minifigure hand.
That's the charm!
The problem is everyones amputation is different. So each prosthetic needs tailored specifically to each person its for so the money saved 3d printing is minimal. At that point its better to just go with a proven material.
Personally i wouldnt trust a 3d printed prosthetic.
You sure about that title? Lol
Nice mastach. Grow it like your business