Using 3D Printers to Create Prosthetic Limbs for Ugandans
From: Medical Design Technology - 01/13/2014
By: Patchen Barass

A University of Toronto lab is partnering with an international NGO and a
Ugandan hospital to use 3D scanning and printing to speed the process of
creating and fitting sockets for artificial limbs.

Today a 3D scan of a Ugandan's residual limb can be sent within seconds to
another part of the world where a prosthetist can digitally design a
replacement, sending that file back to Africa to be printed.

The implications of such a system are many, but one is the capacity to make a
prosthesis in less than 24 hours. For many Ugandans, speed is more than a
matter of convenience; it’s the difference between getting a prosthetic limb
or not.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/01/using-3d-printers-create-prosthetic-limbs-ugandans

Links:
Critical Making Lab
http://criticalmaking.com/

Matt Ratto
http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/matt-ratto