It is hard to list all the inspiration for this design. The first Kwawu arm was done as improvements to Christina Silva’s design. I just wanted to make the design a little easer to print and more functional. I referred to it as the Kwawu arm, because I was doing the changes to meet the
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Through Enable Web Central we found Zadie in Kansas City. Zadie’s mom was very helpful in providing sizing information, Zadie was excited to pick colors and design ideas. We contacted Kansas City Science City so they could scan Zadie’s residual arm for our test-fitting. Together with Bruce Kronberg and John Skogen we made an arm
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This version is the terminal only version for people with a standard forearm socket already. There are two other versions on thingiverse. The source Fusion 360 files can be found on Fusion360. http://a360.co/2h6U9rv I have redesigned the Kwawu arm to be more natural looking and more functional. The terminal device has a much higher grip
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This version is similar to the original thermoform Kwawu arm. It is suitable for a recipient with a long residual forearm. This printable files can be found here on thingiverse. The source Fusion 360 files can be found on Fusion360. http://a360.co/2xLfxO8 I have redesigned the Kwawu arm to be more natural looking and more functional.
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This version is the socket version intended for people with short forearm residual limbs. The printable files can be downloaded here on thingiverse. The source Fusion 360 files can be found on Fusion360. http://a360.co/2iuxd69 I have redesigned the Kwawu arm to be more natural looking and more functional. The terminal device has a much higher
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This design can be downloaded from Thingiverse here. This arm was designed for Kwawu John Mensah through e-NABLE Ghana. This is a remix of Christian Silva’s Flexi Arm 2. This is Christian’s wrist and arm design, with Steve Wood’s Flexi Hand fingers. I have gone back to the fingers of FlexyHand 2. I think
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I designed this arm for Lionel with Jeff Erenstone. Jeff schooled me in much of the basics of prosthetic design. Here is a PDF of the Assembly Instructions Recent Update: I never posted these files publicly. I feel like all the Kwawu 2.0 socket version has all the good ideas of this arm and is
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This is a low profile gauntlet for the Phoenix hand. You can download it here on thingiverse. This is a remix of the Team UnLimbited Gauntlet V4. My goal was to integrate the gripper box into the gauntlet itself so it can be very low profile on the wrist of the user. This release contains
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These are some of the first few hands I made. They are all phoenix design.