e-NABLE is an online global community of “Digital Humanitarian” volunteers from all over the world who are using their 3D printers to make free and low-cost prosthetic upper limb devices for children and adults in need. The open-source designs created by e-NABLE Volunteers help those who were born missing their fingers and hands or who have lost them due to war, natural disaster, illness or accidents.
Today e-NABLE has grown to more than 40,000 volunteers but back when I found the group online. We were just a handful of individuals brought together by a passion to help people. I helped contribute to some of the initial CAD designs, one of which Won a CES innovation award and helped present the concept at the White House Maker Fair in 2016. Many of the designs have been printed tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of times as this point.