prosthetic hand: milwaukee prt.8 (materials and resources)

I've been quiet with my posts about Shea's hand. I'm not sure why as I have been doing a lot to prepare for our next meeting. I've been keeping up with all of the activity and collaboration occurring on the e-NABLE group. I'll have more info. on that soon. I ordered supplies for us to use in the creation of Shea's hands. I sourced most of this from Amazon, but many of the orthoplastic sheets were shipped from Patterson Medical, who apparently has an office just a few miles North of me in Cedarburg. My colleague, Adream called them, and they put us in touch with a regional representative who knows a ton about splinting, so this should create a positive relationship that we can use as a resource. I purchased cabling supplies, Velcro, colored thermoplastics, filaments (in Shea's favorite colors),  and splinting sock liners. Adream and I played with milling and laser cutting the thermoplastic to see if we could cut some patterns into the material. My laser cutter settings were a bit too hot, but I slices like butter; same with the milling machine. It does leave some burrs along the edge similar to when you machine nylon, but nothing that can't be cleaned up.

In the last few weeks I have been preparing links to where I sourced many of the materials for Shea's hands. During this time, Jen Owen was working on a new site for the e-NABLE group and she put out a call for resources for all things pertaining to 3D printed prosthetic design and creation. I put together the following and she now has all of this on the e-NABLE group's new website. You can access the e-NABLE site here.

Here is what I submitted to her:

Names of 3d print design programs that are easy for beginners and programs that you are using yourselves - with links?

3D Modeling Software

Commercial Software

Rhino3D  (http://www.rhino3d.com)

used for creating 3D models and renderings. Works very well with meshes as well as basic 2D and 3D solid model generation.

Mac OSX version is in Beta testing so it is FREE to download at the moment.

PC version $995

Autodesk Inventor (http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-inventor-family/overview)

Autodesk offers student download free 36 month student license: http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software

Autodesk: K-12 Education (http://usa.autodesk.com/education/secondary/)

Solidworks (http://www.solidworks.com)

Open Source Software

OpenSCAD (http://www.openscad.org)

123D Make (http://www.123dapp.com/make)

TinkerCAD (https://tinkercad.com)

FreeCAD (http://www.freecadweb.org) parametric 3D modeling

Blender (http://www.blender.org)

3D Scanning

3D Scanner Hardware

Next Engine Scanner (http://www.nextengine.com)

Makerbot Digitzer (http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer)

3D Systems Sensor handheld Scanner http://cubify.com/sense/

X-Box 360 Kinect (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect) for scanning

3D Scanning Software

Scan Studio used with Next Engine Scanner (http://www.nextengine.com/products/scanstudio-hd/specs/overview)

Rapidworks (http://www.nextengine.com/products/rapidworks/intro)

Makerware for Scanning

Scanect (http://skanect.manctl.com) software used for scanning with the Kinect

ReconstructMe (http://reconstructme.net) software used for scanning with the Kinect

CAM/CNC

CAM Software (for generating gcode for subtractive carving of objects)

RhinoCAM used for creating gcode to mill 2D and 3D milled or routed parts.

http://rhinocam.com/index.shtml

CNC milling, routing, laser cutting, 3d printer control software

Mach 3 used to run cnc machine; gcode is loaded into this program and this program sends signals to cnc machine to be able to cut objects from sheet or block of material.

3D Model Slicing for 3D printing

Open source software:

Makerware (http://www.makerbot.com/blog/category/makerware/)

Slic3r (http://slic3r.org)

Pronterface (http://reprap.org/wiki/Printrun)

Repetier (http://www.repetier.com)

STL Repair and Mesh Manipulation

Open Source Software

netfabb (http://www.netfabb.com)

autodesk3d print (http://apps.123dapp.com/3dprint/install.html)

meshlab (http://meshlab.sourceforge.net)

Meshmixer (http://www.meshmixer.com)

Favorite 3d printers and links where to find them.

3D Printers

RepRap Open Source

RepRap (http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap)

Prusa Mendel (http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Mendel_(iteration_2))

Prusa i3 (http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_i3)

MendelMax (http://reprap.org/wiki/MendelMax)

Rostock (http://reprap.org/wiki/Rostock)

Printrbot (http://reprap.org/wiki/Printrbot)

Commercial Printers

Makerbot (https://www.makerbot.com)

SeeMeCNC (http://seemecnc.com) 

Up! printer (http://www.pp3dp.com)

Cubify (http://cubify.com)

Ultimaker (https://www.ultimaker.com)

names of and links to medical grade hardware/orthoplastic/foam padding

Medical Suppliers

Patterson Medical (http://www.pattersonmedical.com)

  

Splinting Information Resource:

Introduction to Splinting Excerpt

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0lYyB55L5cRMzdUaDhZVjNYbXM/edit?usp=sharing

  

Medical Supplies

Thermoplastics

Sammons Preston Rolyan Aquaplast Sample Pack

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E8D7UTE/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Aquaplast Watercolors Splinting Material Single Sheet, Solid, Electric Blue, 1/8" x 18" x 24" (3.2mm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BV8QKW/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

AliPlast 6A, 1/8 x 24 x 29 inch sheet, White

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H9N4CUK/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

AliMed Multiform, 24 x 36 x 1/8 inch perforated sheet

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H9NG4C4/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Aquaplast Watercolors Ped's Pac "A"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007G4VUVQ/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

  

Velcro:

Genuine Velcro 1806-OW-PB/B-30 One-Wrap Self Gripping Strap, 30' Length x 2" Width, Black

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006AWFGJ2/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Cord, Cabling and Stringing:

Roll of 100 Yards Shade Cord (Or Lift Cord) 0.9 mm

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006DDHVM8/ref=oh_details_o01_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Splint Socks or Arm Protectors

Rolyan(R) Stockinette Splint Liner Splint Liner Small 3" (7.6cm) proximal end, 11¼16" (1.7cm) thumb width

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007GBGDNE/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

  

3D Printing Supplies and Suppliers

FDA Approved 3D Printing Filaments:

Taulman 3D T-Glase Polyester Resin Filament 1.75mm 1lb Spool

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GOKYZ3I/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Suppliers

Inventables: https://www.inventables.com

Lulzbot (http://seemecnc.com)

Ultimachine (https://ultimachine.com)

General Material and Fabrication Suppliers:

McMaster-Carr (http://www.mcmaster.com)

Grainger (http://www.grainger.com)