{"id":219,"date":"2015-02-28T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T18:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/?p=219"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:26:17","slug":"e-nable-prosthetic-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/projects\/e-nable-prosthetic-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"e-NABLE Prosthetic Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Williams college Makerspace is working with the organization&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/enablingthefuture.org\/\">e-NABLE<\/a>&nbsp;to print and assemble simple prosthetic hands for children with manual disabilities! Project Updates will be posted here.<\/p>\n<h2>Prototype 1: Printing the First Hand (2\/28\/2015)<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_220\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-image-220 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"e-NABLE prototype hand\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/files\/2022\/07\/2015-03-03_09-05-01_684-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">e-NABLE prototype hand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few days ago, we set out on our first prototype of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:476403\/#instructions\">Raptor Hand<\/a>. Today, after much printing and assembly, we have a working final product!<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Observations: The phalanges are a little too large for the joints, and stick badly, reducing grip strength. Next time around, we\u2019ll print larger and in ABS to see how using different plastics affects the final project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Williams college Makerspace is working with the organization&nbsp;e-NABLE&nbsp;to print and assemble simple prosthetic hands for children with manual disabilities! Project Updates will be posted here. Prototype 1: Printing the First Hand (2\/28\/2015) A few days ago, we set out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/projects\/e-nable-prosthetic-hands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15,69],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-3d-print","tag-makerspace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/makerspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}