Hi Zoubir, you have a great cause and looking for a solution makes you a really great uncle. You’re in the right place to get help, and thank you for letting us know enable queue is backlogged, they should see an influx of people with printers signing up having read this.
You mentioned costs - nobody seems to have really covered that.
The hubs have various reasons for being here, Profit isnt always one of them, and whilst everyone has costs to cover, I would like to think nobody here would charge you anything for a project like this. To give you an idea of raw material cost, Plastic is usually priced per Kilogram, and the cheapest materials are PLA and ABS, and good quality PLA sells around €20-€50 per kg. Its also rather unlikely your nephew would require a 1kg hand. The only variables are the printers time and energy costs. I’d like to think these would all be waived to help your nephew.
Something else nobody mentioned yet - as your nephew grows the arm will need to grow too, requiring parts to be periodically replaced with bigger ones. I don’t know how frequently this qould happen, it mainly depends on your nephew!
Are you clear on your next steps, and do you have someone identified to help you print this?
Good luck to you and your nephew and please keep us posted.
Thank you so much for taking time to answer me. I really appreciate.
All the aspects you’ve pointed out are right and the developpment of my nephew hand is one of them. I expect to ask for new printed hand till he stops growing. Then, I will look for a permanent chirurgical solution option.
But meanwhile, I really need to achieve the 3D part. My request is still in the Enable queue and I have no idea when or where the project will start, there is no visibility about the request and I understand this, since it is a volunteer organization.
So, regarding your last question, I unfortunatly have no one identified to help. I also contacted some “private” organization but none is answering. I would really be happy to help about the total cost required to realize it, but first I need someone to help.
I also got in touch with a guy from Handesign, he was ready to do it, but then realized that he can only make a Raptor design not a Phoenix one.
I also contacted “Open Bionics” via their contact form, but they don’t answer.
I’ve been looking over the e-nable site over the last few days, and have decided I would like to help you with this especially since you’re having so much difficulty finding someone locally to do it for/with you. I’ll preface this by saying my team and I have never done a prosthetic in the past, but I am a mechanical engineer and have very strong modeling/design skills. We do a fair number of complex mechanical models both for our day jobs and at home, so as long as you’re a bit patient while we learn the ins and outs of these designs, we can definitely help you out.
Shoot me an email at hubs@enza3d.com and we’ll talk more about getting this done and what we need to get started!
please drop us an email to info@futurefabbers.com. We will be happy to give you some additional information which need to be considered. 3DHubs is a
commercial platform. They get for a provision for any part having ordered via 3DHubs. Something else and very important which I would like to point out:
A 3D printed hand is a medical device. In Europe these devices may only be produced by following given laws and regulations. Most importantly is that medical devices may only be distributed by medical experts. However there are possibilities to provide you that hand. Therefore please drop us an direct email.
So you think the government would prevent the sale of the print due to it being medical in nature? The purpose of a print is not technically defined by 3DHubs so surely they’d be exempt from any liability or bureaucracy?
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