Cheaper, Faster, Better: The Plan to Build an Open Source Prosthetic Hand
Over the past five years, 3D printers have gotten cheaper, hardware has gotten smaller, and tinkerer communities have boomed. All of that has spurred a renaissance of prosthetic design, bolstered by an open source ethos and crowdfunded budgets. Robotic prosthetics, as you might expect, are still expensive, complicated, and time-consuming to build. But a growing…