[MUSIC] So in this video, you will hear from the founder of the Enable the Future project, the global volunteer led effort to create low-cost prosthetics. There is no central facility or location that is making these low-cost prosthetics. They have a few designs that have been refined over time. The organization finds a child or adults as well in some cases, who need a particular kind of prosthetic, mostly on the hands and then they match them up with volunteers with 3D printers or hacker spaces who are willing to fabricate, so print and fabricate at a very low cost. And we have done that too at the Maker Lab in some of the courses we teach. We spent about $25 on printing the hand and then we shipped it off to the person who needed it and that was something amazing for our students to be able to do. So we had the opportunity to chat with the founder of the project at a recent conference. So have a look at that and perhaps you can participate in this project too. >> I'm the founder of Enable and President of the Enable Community Foundation. We are a global network of volunteers using 3D printers to make assisted devices like prosthetic hands and arms for people who can't otherwise get them. And we do it all open-source, and we do the fabrication through our volunteers and we give it away for free. [SOUND] Well we have an online community, and a Google+ community. You can find your way there through our website at enablecommunityfoundation.org. The basic notion is that it turns out there is a global network of potential makers, designers, and mass customizers who are there to compliment what turns out to be of course, a global population of people who need solutions that governmental and commercial organizations have not met. Open source creates the opportunity to bring together all of these volunteers who find this a hugely inspiring opportunity to work together without worrying about IP and frankly, to produce things that are valuable, even if they're not profitable products. The community itself is a pushing 8,000 right now, it grows by 50 to 100 members every single week. We've done several thousand devices at this point. We're confident, but there's great burgeoning of enabled dark matter all over the world. Organizations in parts of the world that are doing things using our name, using our designs, using many of our processes and we're still trying to figure out how do we cast light on what they're doing and how do we help pull them together. But we're also part of an emerging movement with other organizations like makers who are also supported by Google.Org, which might be called digital humanitarians or humanitarian makers or something like that. And I think in the long run, that may be the even larger significance of what we're doing is that we're all together trying to figure out how to harness what are probably hundreds of thousands of high-tech but high-touch, compassionate humanitarians and saying you don't need an organization, you don't need a business, you just need a network and tools that can help us do things that otherwise don't get done. 3D printers are ever more accessible. They probably have the access to a public library. But even if they don't, there are third parties like Shapeways with whom we're developing a relationship which will do the printing as a cloud base service and it's not all about 3D printing. It's about designing for 3D printing. It's about testing the 3D prints. It's about assembling the pieces that someone else has 3D printed. And so there's a whole ecosystem and plenty of things for people to do, even if they don't have access to the 3D printer. They can still be very much a part of the 3D printed prosthetics ecology. [SOUND] Well they can get access to Fusion, probably by virtue of their participation in your course and certainly, I can say, if they join the Enable community, we can get them free copies of Fusion. Fusion now includes the Enable devices as one of the exemplary file sets in their on line folder and that will be a good way to get started. [SOUND] Well of course, that is the real mission of the Enable community foundation, is to figure out how to take this movement and turn it into something sustainable and world changing. I can predict that there will be far more of us, that there will more designs and more devices, there will be developed infrastructures and developed alliances. And there will be more structures including Coursera courses that will help us tie together the learning materials as well as the infrastructure for coordinating all of this. It is interesting to me that your own program is in a school of business and those issues of financial sustainability are ones that some of your students and some of your faculty may be able to help us with also. My pleasure, I hope that we will be able to contribute to it and I hope that you'll be able to contribute to us and keep us in the loop. That goes for everyone watching the video, not just of those making the video. [MUSIC] [SOUND]
