UNC student creates prosthetic hand for youngster
A 7-year-old from Chapel Hill now has a prosthetic hand that cost just $20 to make on a 3-D printer.
Posted — Updated"It makes it looks like I have two hands, just one is redder than the other – a lot more redder," Holden Mora said recently as he showed off a robotic-looking device that gives his left hand the grip it never had.
"It was born differently than my right hand," he said of his left hand. "The fingers are a little shorter and smaller."
The plastic fingers were made possible by Jeff Powell, a senior biomedical engineering major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who used an online design and a 3-D printer to create a prosthetic hand in about 20 hours.
"It was nice to see the work pay off," Powell said. "Holden seems very excited about it, and I hope I can help him out by doing this."
"Well, he did a nice job," Holden said.
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