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Peregrine Hawthorn and his son Peter Binkley discuss their personal experiences with 3D printing. Learn more about e-NABLE here: http://enablingthefuture.org/
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A
Hi,
my
name
is
Karen
and
I.
Want
you
to
imagine
the
character
and
Chitty
Chitty
Bang
Bang
who's,
the
crazy
inventor
corrected
his
pots
got
it.
I
met
a
real-life
prácticas
a
year
and
a
half
ago
in
Seattle.
His
name
is
Ivan
Owen
and
he
creates
all
kinds
of
crazy
things,
and
he
was
telling
me
a
story
of
when
he
had
made
this
puppet
puppetry
armature,
where
his
fingers.
B
A
Create
movement
in
this
wing
like
armature
and
he
often
videos
his
creations
and
puts
them
online.
So
he
had
this
YouTube
video
online
and
somebody
in
South
Africa,
who
was
looking
for
inspiration
and
ideas
to
help
him
solve
a
problem
with
finding
a
way
to
create
a
finger
for
his
hand
from
an
accident,
saw
that
video
and
got
in
touch
with
Ivan
and
said.
Hey
I
think
that
the
idea
that
you
had
for
that
wing
puppetry
thing
could
help
me.
A
And
the
world
was
taken
by
this
story,
including
John
Shaw,
who
is
here,
and
he
saw
that
video
of
the
story
of
how
these
men
to
on
other
sides
of
the
world
came
together
to
solve
a
problem
and
in
the
YouTube
comments,
people
started
to
say:
hey
I
have
a
3d
printer
I
could
do
that
too,
and
someone
could
I
get
involved
and
John
said:
let's
start
a
map,
let's
start
a
google
map
and
everybody
put
a
pin
in
and
then
the
next
step
was
well.
What
do
we
do?
How
do
we
stay
connected?
A
So
they
started
that
enable
Google+
community
group
and
people
from
all
over
the
world
connected
through
that
group
in
order
to
collaborate,
rainstorm
and
find
people
who
had
needs
so
I
heard
this
whole
story
from
Ivan
and
I
went
home
to
durham
north
carolina,
and
I
logged
on-
and
I
joined
this
enable
group
and
very
shortly
after
that,
somebody
posted
hey.
I
live
in
cary
north
carolina.
Is
there
I
have
a
son
who
has
this
need
from
for
an
arm
and
is
there
somebody
who
lives
close?
A
That
could
help
me
and
I
saw
that
and
I
clicked
in
and
I
said
well.
I
live
in
Durham,
that's
a
little
bit
of
a
modification
that
I'm
not
comfortable
completely
doing
five
minutes
later.
A
guy
Nick
in
California
saw
my
comments:
hey
I'm
working
with
a
girl
who
has
a
similar
problem.
Let's
all
three
of
us
get
together
in
a
google+
hangout
and
see
if
we
can't
work
this
out,
and
that
was
my
connection
with
the
enable
community.
A
This
is
a
group
of
grassroots
do
for
good
volunteers,
who
are
just
networking
in
this
open
community
open
in
the
best
sense
of
the
opportunities
and
challenges
that
sharing
information
and
ideas
can
happen
over
time.
An
able
has
had
to
grow,
grow
an
infrastructure
and
continue
to
refine
that
infrastructure.
In
order
to
facilitate
these
volunteers,
who
are
worldwide
working
together
to
brainstorm
design,
collaborate
match
make
thousands
of
volunteers
now
who
are
working
together
to
help
one
hand
at
a
time.
C
For
one
obvious
reason
is
that
it's
it's
very
low-cost
we're
able
to
produce
a
device
for
an
amputee,
usually
a
congenital
amputee,
for
between
thirty
and
fifty
dollars.
So
we've
all
we've
noticed
that
children
have
this
pesky
habit
of
growing
up
and
and
when
they
do
we're
ready
for
them.
When
they
outgrow
their
device,
we
can
print
a
new
one.
We
can
scale
it
up
about
five
percent
and
print
them
a
new
one
that
will
fit
them
and
their
old
device.
A
C
C
So
you
can
download
and
access
the
files
and
the
and
also
instructions
through
through
our
websites,
and
we
have
so
clients
and
their
families
are
making
their
own
devices
and
and
and
also
one
of
our
goals-
is
that
these
devices
be
beautiful
in
the
eyes
of
the
user,
and
this
is
especially
important
for
children
who
may
be
self-conscious
about
about
a
limb
difference
they
might
when
they
meet
a
new
person.
You
might
see
them
put
their
put
their
head
in
a
pocket
or
under
there
under
their
arm.
D
D
That's
the
remarkable
thing
about
this
community
we've
spent
far
more
hours
on
hangouts
together
and
we'd,
make
the
discovery
that
our
colleagues
have
legs
on
these
rare
occasions
when
we
get
together
and
we
have
a
lot
of
colleagues,
you
know
from
from
the
story
that
Karen
and
Peter
have
told
we
have
we've
gotten
to
the
point
where
today
or
tomorrow,
we're
going
to
cross
the
5,000
member
mark
in
our
Google+
community.
At
this
point,
we've
delivered
about
1500
hands,
mostly
in
North
America
and
the
Western
Hemisphere.
D
There
are
55
classrooms
and
you've
seen
a
few
of
them
showing
up
in
this
in
this
video
around
the
country
in
which
school
children
or
their
teachers
or
both
are
taking
this
on
as
a
service
learning
project,
Boy
Scout
troops
having
hand
the
palooza
'he's,
where
they
put
together,
hands
which
then
get
shipped
to
in
early
programs,
the
Middle
East,
where
they're
being
tested
for
Syrian
war,
victims
and
so
on.
So
it's
become.
D
It's
become
really
interesting
and
it's
become
really
quite
an
interesting
possible
future
to
coin
a
phrase
for
our
organization
called
enabling
the
future,
but
we're
well
aware
that
the
kids,
mostly
kids,
that
we've
helped
so
far
we're
already,
let's
face
it
among
the
luckiest
children
in
the
history
of
humanity
right
wealthy
families
connected
to
the
internet,
stable
families.
They
were
born
this
way
they
can
do
pretty
well
missing
fingers.
They
have
caring
parents
and
they're
connected
to
a
community.
D
D
We
need
your
help
and
your
partnership
to
figure
out
how
to
slide
an
organization,
probably
the
enable
community
foundation
under
this
movement
to
connect
with
organizations
like
yours
that
know
how
to
deliver
and
know
the
contacts
overseas
and
I
just
want
to
point
out
that
we
actually
have.
We
have
a
lot
potentially
to
offer
not
what
what's
interesting
about.
This
is
not
just
the
devices
which
you
know
made.
D
Many
of
us
excited
about
the
possibility,
but
a
process
and
a
community
with
transformative
potential
transformative
potential
for
medicine,
for
thinking
about
crowd,
source,
digital
humanitarianism
or
in
small
words,
helping
hands
in
the
global
village,
and
this
goes
way
beyond
3d
printed
prosthetics.
This
is
a
model
of
of
great
potential
and
for
the
makers,
as
well
as
for
the
resist
recipients,
an
incredibly
meaningful
opportunity
for
personal
transformation,
I'm
Karen
and
Peter
and
I,
and
most
of
our
members.
D
Members
will
vouch
that
the
moment
when
we
give
a
hand
to
a
kid,
is
one
of
the
most
meaningful
and
exciting
moments
in
in
our
entire
lives
and,
of
course,
transformative
potential
for
the
people
who
received
these
things
and
the
parents
of
the
people
who
received
these
things.
All
of
this
could
potentially
scale
globally,
and
we
want
your
help
on
that
and
to
continue
the
discussion
of
this
sort
of
personal
transformative
potential.
We
have
Peregrine
Hawthorne,
who
you
know,
is
both
collaborator
and
recipient
and
son
and
friend,
okay,.
B
Thank
you
John,
so
as
seat
as
John
just
mentioned,
I'm,
not
only
I'm,
not
only
designer,
but
also
a
user
as
congenital
missing.
Five
fingers
on
my
left
hand
and
we've
been
working
on
this
for
I've,
been
using
one
of
these
for
about
two
years
now
and
within
the
first
within
the
first
two
weeks
of
this
I'm
I
started
to
incorporate
this
hand
into
my
own
body.
Map
I
saw
it
as
a
part
of
myself.
I
would
reach
for
I'd
reach
for
things
with
a
hand
that
I
forgot
to
put
on
this
morning.
D
B
So
there's
there's
that
and
there's
also
that
as
a
designer
of
these
hands,
I
look
at
every
single
one
as
the
next
prototype.
The
next
just
simply
the
next
design.
It's
always
a
work
in
progress,
always
something
to
improve,
and
when
those
two
ideas
meet,
you
have
I
find
myself
looking
at
my
hand
looking
down
at
part
of
myself
and
seeing
something
that's
something
to
improve
something.
It's
a
work
in
progress,
something
worthy
of
making
better
and
that's
a
very
it's.
B
A
very
infectious
idea
that
very
quickly
I
began
to
see
myself
as
a
cyborg
and
that
that
idea
spreads
to
the
rest
of
me
and
I
hope
that
spreads
to
the
rest
of
the
rest
of
the
recipients.
Here
that
not
only
other
hands
worthy
of
being
improved,
but
your
entire
body,
your
entire
sense
of
being,
becomes
something
worthy
of
making
better
and
that
right.