#maketheworld – Make The World: Prosthetics – Friday 10/11/2013 8pm ET on Google+ MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis, Prosthetics for Prosperity, e-NABLE and more!

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Make The World: Prosthetics – Friday 10/11/2013 8pm ET on Google+ MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis, Prosthetics for Prosperity, e-NABLE and more!

Make The World: Prosthetics is a one month program on Google+ aimed at crowdsourcing the manufacturing and delivery of the Robohand prosthetic to people in need. The program will be hosted by Adafruit’s Limor Fried, Matt Griffin and Phillip Torrone. Key partners on the program include Robohand, MakerBot, The Open Hand Project, Anthromod, Prosthetics for Prosperity, e­NABLE, The Lucky Fin Project and Hands for Africa.

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Adafruit’s Makers, Hackers, Artists and Engineers Community under the subsection “Make The World” is hosting this month long effort. Community members will post up with what they can help with, suggest people in need, and post pictures of their accomplishments/builds. In addition Makers will be able to find support for the creation of 3D printed prosthetics in the e­NABLE Community on Google+.

  • October 11th, 8pm ET – Community Check In ­inviting a notable Maker to chat with Makers from the Community to show how far they have come along with their project. MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis, Prosthetics for Prosperity, e-NABLE, Google Science Fair.

  • October 18th, 8pm ET – 30 min Community Check In ­ inviting a notable Maker to chat with Makers from the Community to show how far they have come along with their project. Robohand, Hands for Africa and The Open Hand Project.

  • October 25th, 8pm ET – One hour Recap of the past month.

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