October 18, 2013 AT 8:30 am
#maketheworld – Announcing Make The World: Prosthetics – Friday 10/18/2013 8pm ET on Google+ Joel Gibbard from the Open Hand Project and Alton Harding from Hands for Africa
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.
THIS WEEK Joel Gibbard from the Open Hand Project and Alton Harding from Hands for Africa.
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 Robohands in the eNABLE Community on Google+.
- October 18th, 8pm ET – 30 min Community Check In – Hands for Africa and The Open Hand Project.
- October 25th, 8pm ET – One hour Recap of the past month. Robohand, Anthromod, Robohand and more.
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