3-D printer built by UNC students gives 13-year-old girl fingers on right hand
Posted Jan 13, 2016
Jeff Powell was a junior in biomedical engineering at UNC when a professor approached him in 2014 about a boy named Holden who was missing his fingers. Could Powell make something for the child? “I said ‘Yes, of course.'" Holden’s 3-D hand for the boy made national headlines, and he and other student volunteers formed the Helping Hand Project.
(Columbus Dispatch)
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