 Okay, wow. Okay, cool. Thank you so much for getting up in the morning Hello, okay, so I'm John Schull. I have two cool titles. I am research scientist in magic Do this? All right. I have two titles and two voices Research scientist in magic. That's, as you probably know, our IT Center for Media Arts Games Interaction and Creativity And I am founder of Enable. The story I will focus on today Our friends at Red Hat actually did a movie which has ruined my presentation because it does a good job of telling our story So I thought I would pay tribute to them even though it didn't occur to me I should plug in audio but I think it will play alright and it's short so we'll start with that if we can We make children smile. We make parents weep. This is actually a real bet But people do all three all at once which is what usually happens is huge to see what happens And open source turned out to be the easiest one I first walked into this lab and saw a young man named Derrick receiving a diploma With this I'm all seeing a hand and some weird plastic thing. I'm saying two hands He says, so I was born without self-consciousness with a hand like this And my dad and I designed this thing and we used a 3D printer and he goes boom boom It's to their feet like it's to make these designs available to anyone anywhere To provide access not to protect treasure I can't imagine new designs being developed and delivered to the marketplace And doing it equally, being able to share and build on each other's ideas is a whole new work What we're trying to do is we're trying to almost like fast-paced What you would originally do is research and development so you have one idea here And you have another idea here and you have someone who can help you make that idea either happen or even better One of the seven designs all came together with a project we built tomorrow for a child in Mexico Starting from his existing prosthesis that was given to us in September We incorporated all the best things that we've been designing for the past two months And got there just in time And that was all possible because of the technologies and the philosophies that allowed good ideas to go around the world at the speed of light So that's applause for Red Hat that did such a great job on the video I have to say that's the first at this point about four or five videos comparable length They have a longer version of this comparable quality that just tell this story This has become something of an international movement And I want to tell you about some particular aspects of this for two reasons I think it's one of the best stories ever And we need you and I think there are all sorts of interesting opportunities But for education as well as for open source development So one of the things, I'll give you the creation myth because I like to And it's actually my major contribution here was just kicking this thing off And then running as fast as I could to keep up with the snowball Two and a half years ago I saw a YouTube video in which a South African carpenter Reported that after a shop accident where he accidentally cut the fingers off one hand He was shocked to learn that partial hand prostheses are incredibly expensive and hard to come by And he did what you and I would do which is he Googled his way to a Washington state puppet maker Who had made a huge mechanical hand that was controlled by pulling strings connected to the mechanical fingers As a puppet for a B movie And they spent a year collaborating and they came up with a simple mechanical hand And he mentioned in this video that he discovered that this hand would not only be useful for people like him But for children who are born with surprising frequency, one in two thousand kids Born with some kind of an upper limb abnormality, some of them with the equivalent of having no fingers but having a palm And that he was putting the design on the internet And this gave me an idea and I engaged in a quick hack I made a Google map mashup and I put a comment on the YouTube video Now you guys know that YouTube video comments are the most demoralizing literary genre in the history of human literature And yet in this case there were a number that said what this guy the carpenter is doing is great I would do that So I added my own comment that said if you have a 3D printer and you want to help Or if you know someone who needs a hand put yourself on this map And within 60 days there were 70 pins on the map and people started calling me saying ok now what do we do And of course I had no idea So we created a Google plus community and it's been growing and that's sort of how it all happened I'd like to say I was dodging the preparation of a course when I made this mashup and put this thing It's sort of like being pregnant you know 40 minutes of self-indulgence and that's the thing you know you're responsible for all these children And so here we are Now among the interesting features of this story is the explosion of design work that's being done In a truly open source fashion by everyone from 9 year old kids to some of the best engineers in the world And people in between like for example the famous Perrigan Hawthorne who you saw in the video who was visiting because he's going to start college here in the region Any day now And he's wearing actually the talon hand which he has been designing with his dad who you saw in the video And he's one of our leading critics of all of our designs And so it's become a really interesting collaborative community This is the original I'm pointing at my screen but you can't see That picture to the right is the original plus one robo hand snap together design Crude but you can see the basic mechanism is apparent there There are two components one that fits here, one that fits here When you bend the wrist the strings that connect them are pulled And that causes the fingers as my trusty assistant will demonstrate yet again to contract When you bend your wrist you make a fist as I like to say with little kids and grown ups alike Within months a university professor from Nebraska designed the cyborg beast The name for which was proposed by his son and it has become one of our classics You can see it's got better lines but you can also see that it has a fair amount of hardware But in fact a variety of designs proliferated including the talon hand The cyborg beast as I mentioned and in some great digital gene pool they started to produce hybrids Like for example the talon beast which combines some of the features of both So these designs are coming however not just from university professors who do the cyborg beast French teachers who made the talon hand but also this one made by Greg Denison who's an HVAC An air conditioner installer who learned how to do 3D printing and design from another dad Who learned how to do 3D printing and design to make a hand for his son This kid is named Luke Denison and Luke and his dad together realize that in order to hold the things that really matter in life It would be really helpful to have a hand with two thumbs See that? So this is the Luke hand and this kid is now known around the world as cool hand Luke At a conference in September last September at Johns Hopkins Luke was walking around with a napkin and he ran up and he said I've designed a new hand It's called the V2V design and he had some diagram that I'm still not sure I understood I said why are you calling that? He said because it sounds really cool But indeed they did eventually make a clam shaped I guess that's the V A clam shaped hand which has an even better grip And that's sort of one of the examples of recipient based design Here's another one, Tully, his arm ends here and while we were telling him all about how we were building an arm that would work the way our hands do He said wait a minute I'll just put this on my arm which ends here So that was one innovation and indeed that's what he wears And when asked what color he wants his hand he said could it glow in the dark Good idea right? So that's the Tully hand he's a double innovator This is Derek who was mentioned earlier when I was explaining to Derek that we were trying to develop his arm and that we needed a test pilot And that means that nothing would work but we'd need him to tell us about it He picked up two of these prototypes he put them end to end and he said could my arm be this long? So the Derek arm allows him to pick things up off the floor and reach higher shelves than the rest of his classmates and he's the coolest kid in the class We also have three year old marketing geniuses This kid received an orange and red hand for Christmas in Hawaii And while he may have been born without fingers he was born with one of the best smiles in human history And they caught him at a moment when he said look I got an Iron Man hand Within weeks our community was churning out Iron Man hands, Wolverine hands, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle hands And as a matter of fact this poor kid walked out of a movie theater to be greeted by a bunch of Star Wars clone warrior impersonators This is a whole subculture I'm not aware of but they had produced a Star Wars themed arm So this whole thing is sort of getting out of hand But it's not just the community and it's not just the functionality It's really about the way this changes the relationship of the individual recipient to their body And the way it changes the relationship of the individual recipient to their environment This particular kid is holding up his hand and the video is a little long but he does a really great job of saying I'm born with a funny hand I gotta do special things to pull things But then he just articulated something that we've heard a lot but never quite as well as he says it He says you know this is six weeks before he's gotten the device He says I'm counting the days until Christmas when I'm going to get my new hand But you know he says I have bad dreams and in these dreams monsters are coming after me And it's scary but now I say you don't scare me because I have two hands And this is six weeks before he's gotten the device Parents tell us that their kids are more confident, their kids are treated with envy by other kids We had a mother right in saying I was sort of skeptical because as Peregrine will tell you You can do almost everything with missing fingers And kids were born with this, don't even realize there's a problem until they get older and it becomes awkward with their peers It's always a little skeptical about it but Billy wanted this and we were in the park the day after And not for the first time a kid came up and said how come your hand is funny And Billy said I have a special hand and if you want I'll show you my new special robot hand And by the time they were done playing in the park the other kid said you are so lucky So it really just sort of changes the social dynamic in a really interesting way But it's a metasocial dynamic as well because Nathaniel's hand was made by these girls In a Catholic high school who learned about open source technology and learned about 3D printing And if you look at their faces you can see that they haven't just learned about technology They've also learned about what technology is good for and what it is to be involved in this kind of activity Good thinking, well the trick is I will do that but I think it will pop up anyway but we'll find out We shall see So there are about 40 classrooms around the country that have taken this on now And then there are Boy Scout troops that have taken this on and here you see a group in Baltimore Which is meant about I don't know a dozen times now They get together for a weekend hand up loses in which they receive hands that are printed by all of our volunteers And they assemble them in sort of a great big assembly party And in the case of the event where these pictures were taken the hands were then shipped to a hospital in northern Israel Where they were evaluating them for use with Israeli children and with Syrian conflict victims Who were smuggled across the border by the Israeli army because they needed help And about a month ago we actually heard about their first case of a kid who had lost his hand while protecting his mother And they said we gave him an unable arm and within a week he was on his motorbike riding home Now we're not totally sanguine about that all aspects of that story But the point is it's become a multinational multi-religious I said Boy Scouts multi-gender I said Boy Scouts but it included Girl Scouts It included Catholic Boy Scouts, Jewish Boy Scouts, Islamic Boy Scouts And Frontier Scouts which I think is the name for the other Girl Scouting group And the next time we do this kind of thing at the next level we hope to have these kids teamed up with Scouts Who are after all positioned all over the world in order to collaborate and to do this kind of thing together So it's a thing And I'm actually most proud of the fact that I sort of nailed it when I put up that initial Google map I said this is and this was a lie but it was a good minimally viable product right it was a prototype I said it is a global volunteer assistive technology network built on an infrastructure of electronic communications 3D printing and goodwill and if you put those three things together and I think it needs all three At this point I can say we have proven that as you all have known for quite some time That there are thousands probably tens to hundreds of thousands of people who are ready willing and able To donate time and expertise in order to help other people Because it's just the coolest thing ever and because it makes a really big difference So this is that conference at Johns Hopkins where and there you can see Peregrine And his dad as well as Greg Denison and Luke as well as a prosthetics manufacturer And a trauma surgeon who's coming back within weeks from his voluntary tour of duty in Africa He's a trauma surgeon he develops brain controlled super duper prosthetic arms And he's become a big supporter of ours That conference turns out to have been a real turning point in the prosthetics industry We brought together prosthetists as well as printer makers as well as parents as well as children as well as enable volunteers and media And we taught them all how to do and how to download the files that we were making freely available Those constituencies had never been in the same room together and they learned a huge amount from each other And everyone said it was the coolest thing ever and I'm here to tell you that we're doing it again on October 24th in Seattle, Washington Which is also going to include the just announced enable education exchange The 30 some classrooms that have adopted this as a STEM and STEAM learning project Along with another 50 schools classrooms and edutopia type organizations that are interested in this Are now going to begin weekly online hangouts that we're going to organize And start contributing their course material into an online repository And we're going to start trying to make it possible for mere mortal educators Not just the heroes like you who will get up early in the morning and figure out how to do everything Make it easier for classes to adopt what is already becoming one of the go to STEM, STEAM and service learning technology projects around We are looking for sponsorships corporate and academic sponsorships And we're looking for other offers of support and participation Our operators are waiting for your call The point is it's become a pretty complicated ecology here There is now not only a community these numbers are not quite up to date of 5,800 volunteers And three staff and may I say three staff 5,800 volunteers is a problem that won't be solved by having more volunteers So we are seeking to raise money in order to bring a few more staff on hand But it continues if you want to get on the inside and just see this in action join our Google Plus community You can see here that when I made this slide we had 2002 members wasn't that long ago It was less than a year ago now we're up to 5,800 It's a really interesting place You're familiar with this kind of thing but somehow the Google Plus social environment with the pictures and the videos And the stories from all of these diverse contributors to the community Make it just a fascinating and visually interesting online community And it's truly an open source community We are documenting as much as we can but as you know we always need help documenting the designs Creating the designs and trying to understand where we fit within the general open source ecology It seems to me that we sort of won the open trifecta here We're doing open source but we're also open in the sense of transparent Everything that we do is exposed to the world and by the way I'm about to argue that it's a really interesting laboratory For studying the kind of thing that we all in this room are fascinated with Namely an open community But in fact there's some interesting theoretical and legal work still to be done Our members are using open source licenses and Creative Commons licenses But the dirty little not so secret is that hardware is different from software And so licenses created for software and for documents don't probably really protect hardware as one would hope Just to give you one example it's not at all clear that there's any license that's in common use today Which will prevent you from taking a novel design of an object scanning the object not using the design files And then rebuilding those parts from the mesh that the scan produced and that escapes the licenses So we are working with a law firm which in our liaison there is Mark Radcliffe to help write the GPL 3.0 And we're just now initiating a project to try to develop open source hardware licenses that will work for us And perhaps for the hardware community modeled on the Creative Commons framework And we are not experts at this so some of you will understand these issues and be able to help us pull together the right people to figure out whether For example the same set of options that Creative Commons offers are the same set of the right options for us to offer to designers of our concept devices I want to take a few minutes and just say to all of you software types that there are some really interesting opportunities This evolutionary tree here was handcrafted by moi It took a long time and it's frankly terribly up to date If it were to be extended to the out of date is what I meant to say If it were to be extended to the present roughly speaking it would reach to that corner and I'm going to guess the middle of the room The design proliferation has continued and this visual diagram which you're familiar with in the open source software world Turns out to be really useful there are designs knocking about it's not like everyone is using GitHub for this We have Thingiverse, we have Imagine, we have Cubify, etc, etc And it gets very hard for someone who gets a design to know where it stands in the evolutionary tree And whether it's the latest version and for that matter whether it's been superseded by some other interesting version Now if you look at the bottom right you can see that Thingiverse which is the most common of these repositories Has a remixed from tag associated with all of the designs that are available there And you guys will recognize that if I have a node and a graph and I know the parent of that node I can reconstruct the entire graph There is a really cool real-time dynamic visualization and data scraping opportunity For someone who wants to pull that information together and turn this not only into a map but also a user interface For finding your way to the appropriate design and documentation So that before you invest what will be 20 hours of your time print your time and your time in making one of these devices You're sure you're making the one you want to make Or you're sure that there's an opportunity for you to make a new one Which is to say that some of you, how many of you do 3D design? Alright, not so few Okay, well some of those should immediately join the enable community because there's plenty of opportunity So the community there you go has as I have said several times because I can't get over it Just continued to grow like Topsy There are any day now 6,000 members and each of them probably has I'm guessing here I don't know new opportunities to do analytics on our community 30,000 posts Each post with a picture with a comment with a with a description and then with a thread of comments on it And Google Plus gives you no particular way of navigating that it is a haystack of haystacks of needles Here's an idea If you think about it each row in that graph represents one person from the moment they came on board all the way up to the present time If every moment of their activity produced a little pixel under the curve Then this texture here would actually be a guide to activity day by day by day for the entire population Furthermore, if you were to mouse over the relevant pixel You might get a preview of what you could read if you clicked on the pixel and actually drilled down into there If you had some clever color coding you could begin to see that there were groups who were involved in certain conversations And it would become a really interesting forest and a really interesting navigational tool for exploiting What is, frankly, I happen to believe a sort of historic Petri dish of interesting and evolving open source ideas Prosthetic ideas, social ideas, etc Similarly, you could use the same data for social network analysis Which is just the obvious thing to do And yet hasn't been done because Google hasn't exposed the API for private communities Which is a tragedy but true I wrote a splinter script in Python which will go and click on every damn post Read the data off the screen and could in principle capture it all and then do a visualization like this But my days of being able to actually complete a project like that seem to have passed So I'm calling out to you all And I will point out that in addition to the usual rats nest of social network analyses There are some really interesting ideas here This one, there you go This is from 3D.js and that guy whose name I forgot Produced this wonderful visualization This shows, for example, every person and every person And if they're part of the same node, they become a dot And then it automatically and dynamically sorts the rows and columns The columns, the patterns and the clumps jump out at you This would be really useful if, which he didn't do Again, you could click and say, what is this cluster? What are they talking about? Okay, I want to drill down into that Software engineering, social engineering, information engineering Big opportunities, we don't have people flocking Little joke there, flocking to our community in order to solve those kinds of problems But as you can see, those are great problems and they will really enhance the more general effort Here's one more bit of bait I want to dangle in front of this particular community Like everyone and their brother, we too are thinking about badging And how it might end gamification, although I would like to be able to call this recognitions Because it seems to me it's not just about giving somebody a gold star You probably understand this, but we're still thinking it through When you see a military person or a scout with a bunch of badges on his chest You basically see the resume right there You know what particular topics this person would be a good helper and collaborator on In Google plus, which happens to be for the moment where we live We've got, everyone has a round avatar next to them whenever they do anything So we propose that we can imagine that around the edge of the circle The circular avatar would be little clock positions And each position would represent a different part, a different kind of achievement And as you can see, this guy seems to have invested heavily in two particular kinds of activities And he's earned, in this fictional example, he's earned three levels in both of them And our idea is that someone could write a simple program that would download somebody's avatar Add a ring when they acquired a merit badge And invite them or automatically update their avatar to show it There's one other piece of the puzzle which is sort of interesting Because as per the fact that we don't have the staff to manage this kind of thing Or to develop the software in full, we'd like to allow the community to build this thing out And so the half-baked idea that I will share with you Is that in fact the one o'clock position on the clock has to do with introducing yourself to the community The, let's say, minute six on the clock has to do with welcoming a member of the community The second ring of minute five would have to do with updating your avatar Because you've got a medal for introducing yourself to the community Down near the bottom, or in this case I say let's say at minute thirty-five Would be a series of badges for things like proposing a new badge Like getting twenty or more votes, a majority of which are in favor of adopting the badge For actually identifying the validation criteria for the badge And I would like to think that some five or six notions like that would be sufficient To create a machine that would then encourage and allow the community to start inventing And ratifying all of their own merit badges on their own Because in fact one of the biggest challenges we have, and I know you all are quite familiar with this problem Is, you know the expression, herding cats But you think that herding cats is hard, try putting cats in charge of the herd We have a new enabled community foundation whose mission, one of whose missions is carefully described as Helping the community self-organize The volunteerism of what you and we do is really an important part of the miracle of what we're doing So we don't want to suck the life of that out of that However, if I may, there are a thousand people waiting for enabled hands at this time We have fifty-eight hundred volunteers and we haven't made it easy enough, rewarding enough or straightforward enough For enough of them to get organized and begin churning these things out So there's a huge opportunity for software development to facilitate the self-organization of the community And while it is true, I'm happy to say that we just got a six hundred thousand dollar grant from Google.org To develop and improve our processes as well as our devices We haven't found the right people and, you know, that money is not necessarily going to allow us to develop this kind of software So we're still trying to figure that out, work out the governance and the accountability for this But again, we're new to this I mean, I sort of have embraced the open source philosophy But we are doing, we're not only open sourcing software, we're open sourcing hardware And we're open sourcing in a way that I think goes beyond most of the ventures that you're familiar with We're open sourcing the time and the compassion of a global community that is eager to change the world Using this network, this recipe of internet communication technologies, 3D design and goodwill You know, I like to say that the Enable Community Foundation and Enable has got three missions The first of them is to make sure that inexpensive upper limb devices are available to anyone anywhere It seemed audacious, but frankly I think we're on track and that's going to happen Even if we go away and there's no indication that we're going away We've demonstrated that you can use this technology to produce inexpensive devices that are substantially better than nothing Which is what most children in most of the world's population currently uses for upper limb prosthetics And we have already begun to disrupt and influence the prosthetics industry, which is ambivalent about what we're doing But recognizes that we've opened up a market which is probably ten to a hundred times larger than the market They have been serving for the last hundred years Our second mission is to support, and this is going to be a generic, genericized version of the first mission To support a global community of humanitarians using emerging technologies, not just 3D design and software, but emerging technologies To innovate new solutions for underserved populations, not just people born with upper limb differences But all sorts of upper, all sorts of underserved populations It's a noble and audacious goal, and I think part of the reason people are so fascinated by what we do is because we've done the proof of concept We're not done with upper limb prosthetics And for that matter we're already expanding from hands to arms, from arms to orthotics For example people who've got hands but have lost control of their fingers so they can now bend and unbend their arms And that will open and close their fingers We had a new hack come out just yesterday which tickles my fancy A motorized arm for people who don't have enough of a residual limb to move it mechanically The motor is a twenty dollar electric screwdriver Clamped onto the twenty dollar plastic hand when the screwdriver activates It's got a motor, it's got electronics, it's got a battery and it's available at your local hardware store for twenty dollars When it turns the hand opens and closes So we're moving towards motorized limbs and we're moving towards other parts of the body as well But this general motion goes beyond body parts Heads up displays are, we keep being promised, going to be ubiquitous any day now And when they are everyone in this room is going to have the skills that can use those devices Not just for entertainment or surfing the web but for example to produce heads up displays for the blind reading glasses They've got a camera, you put a book in front of it, it reads into your ear so we call them reading glasses Or subtitles, speech to text for the deaf Or facial recognition help for the autistic Or you tell me The point is if in five or ten years the 3D printed prosthetics problem is a done deal Our community will have moved on to the emerging sweet spot for the next time And so the third mission is to figure out what emerging tip of the iceberg, sorry What iceberg we are the emerging tip of Which is a really fuzzy and strange sentence but I think it's accurate But the point is the economics of this and the ethics and the social organization implied by all of this are really not clear And we have an opportunity to lead the way in exploring it Now it could be this whole thing is going to be assimilated and commercialized And I will be quite happy to declare victory If cheap commercial devices end up out in the world But it's also possible that the thing that's most striking about us The fact that it's a volunteer distributed manufacturing process Motivated not by dollars And not merely by the self satisfaction of becoming better at technology But by the human spirit of compassion and collaboration That is people talk about open source and they now talk about the sharing economy Which as you know is actually not so much when they talk about Uber and these other companies Not so much as sharing so much as collaborative consumption But they do talk about let's say collaborative consumption They talk about the sharing economy and my point is right now we seem to be getting a glimpse of a caring economy And like the open source movement of which we are a proud part It's not clear what all of this means in the long run But if you read the right books and I recommend these books to you We're entering an era in which energy is free And robots probably driven by open source software are doing all of the heavy lifting In a world like that what are people for? Well arguably people are for using these incredible technologies To better the lives of other people who are not quite on the other side of that Rubicon That's a possible interpretation over 10 to 30 to 50 years Of what this more general movement is all about And since we have the opportunity of exploring that one too I think we have the responsibility of exploring that one too And so I want to urge you all to figure out how to get on board and help us make it better and work better And how to help us do it smarter building in part on all of the open source and educational savvy That you guys are experts in. Thank you very much So did I go 15 minutes over or do we have time for discussion? Okay cool Thoughts? Recommendations? Questions? Yes sir You talked a little bit about disruption in the existing industry where it has a high cost I heard a story a while ago about someone who made a tablet app for helping children communicate using icons That was then shut down by the FDA I think for making an unlicensed medical device Have you run into trouble like that? You know we everyone hear that? No He says you know there was this company that made augmentative software for on a tablet For people with language disorders they were shut down by the FDA We've been worried about that a lot but in truth I can now report that the FDA has been watching us carefully And I have a video which I carry with me and will be happy to show anyone In which an FDA official in a moment of weakness at a conference says You know everyone is saying that enable is circumventing FDA regulations here But the FDA wants to support worthy efforts And in fact we have regulations which allow us to create discretionary categories In which our regulation need not apply And because they are dealing with upper limb given a way for free therefore not warrantied etc Devices we think what they're doing is just fine they're doing just what we want and no problem So that's given us a reprieve but in truth our strategy continues to be Make sure the horse is way out of the barn before they figure out what the door is and how to close it And meanwhile they also are trying to get their regulations right They notice by the way that we are we're being quite careful and conservative And we're being even more careful about appearing to be careful and conservative So for example there is huge need around the world for these upper limb prosthetics And we get increase on an almost weekly basis from some orphanage or United Nations agency Or someone saying we want to get a 3D printer and we want to solve our problem in the refugee camp With this and we have to tell them a few things which I want to mention here Which is it's early days for 3D printers if you get a 3D printer and you want to do this Be prepared to be tinkering it's a tinkerer's game these days You know I know for many of you that's part of the appeal But for many people who are trying to solve the world's problems especially in difficult environments We have to give them that warning and we also have to say That we are actively looking for partners who can take medical responsibility For not congenital kids in upper middle class families have found us so far But post traumatic kids in unstable war zones And so it's a gradual process But the point is because we're taking it gradual Because we're being you know sooner or later some kid is going to get hit by a car while riding one of our bikes And at that point the FDA is perfectly able to say You know that discretionary category needs to be tuned up So it's a work in progress but I've tried to sort of sketch our stance with regard to it And yet let me say first of all we got a small grant Small of a hundred thousand dollars and we had a team go to Haiti We got back last week they're going to be there all year to try to figure out What would be a good model for that kind of situation Fifty countries around the world Let me put it this way This week the latest of these videos that I'm so proud of came out of Al Jazeera They did a ten minute piece about Enable in Brazil I had nothing to do with anything it just showed up by surprise This is happening all over the world with the same kind of ambiguity Even though there are these regulatory questions So the first thing I wanted to ask was as in sort of educational research Particularly in the area of spectrum So you mentioned that you want to continue this in another area And looking to augment it around you know things that will help So is that something that you can't be doing now Or are you focusing on just 3D putting the view to go there So the community The Enable Google Plus community and its affiliated Facebook and websites and so on Is really focused on 3D printed upper limb assistive devices right now There's a lot to do and it is in a regulatory sweet spot So we may as well work all of this out there The autistic story, the heads up display story For that matter the home genetically engineered Nutri-suitical story which I haven't mentioned but is going to happen next I think Are just things like one can see coming on the horizon And it's quite possible that the aptly named Enable Community Foundation Could become the umbrella for a community of such ventures Some of which would focus on heads up displays and autistic spectrum Some of which would focus on other opportunities as well That has to do with you know goals 2 and 3 And we're learning a lot as we do goal 1 So that's where we're at Yes I had seen your talk at the summit and I had kind of assumed that the community was more around Research and development but you also touched a little bit on It sounds like you're also doing manufacturing and distribution So what tends to be the relationship between you know the maker and the user And how do you do quality and distribution It's a really good question and it's an involving question The standard answer which is probably still the most common case is So here's a case study so a month ago Not a month ago but 6 months ago We got an email from China Actually we got an email from Canada From a Chinese woman whose Chinese sister had heard about us somehow Saying this would be great for our little boy So the Canadian sister writes to us And it goes to an email address called Enable Matcher at gmail.com That's known as Molina Brown in Alabama Or one of her minions Her job is to look at the Is to get information about the patient From the parents and the family Using a questionnaire that we have including some photographs Then to decide which of our existing volunteers Would be a good match for that person Has it happened that same week Probably because the same news report was circulating somewhere in China We had our first Chinese volunteer So she hooked the two of them up And I got to say this doesn't happen very often Within a week that kid had a hand Usually it takes one to six weeks It can even take months So that's sort of the standard process But another process is one where 3dprint.com last night Published an article which caught me by surprise Saying Enable seeks 1,000 hands by mid-September Apparently it's true But it escaped me that we put out this call But several companies are now offering little goodies and rewards For people who will print those hands Those will then be shipped to classrooms And scouting troops And parties, assembly parties Including Autodesk University We're going to be there doing this In December in Las Vegas Where they get assembled And then they get dispatched under that model Ideally to someone who can then Deal with a local population We're also working with groups like 3D hubs 3D hubs and iMaker have something similar Is a network of 17,000 3D printer people Who've affiliated with this Uber for 3D printing And they've just put out a call And we have an initial pilot team Of 30 people who've said Sure, we'll print these for free So that's another way in which it'll happen It is, you know, distributed Not for profit Manufacturing and design Comparable story about matching designers And problems and so on And it's evolving as fast as we can Yes? Let's say I want to help you Because 3D printing lies in Europe Actually there are opportunities to do it either way The assembly is sort of like Like a Star Wars Lego project Not impossible, but it takes 3 or 4 hours But we do have calls out for unassembled hands Because we've got classrooms and scouting troops That do this social thing Where they get into it by doing the assembly So no, you do not have to master the fine art of assembly Although our new designs Are going to make assembly easier and easier And in a few years They're probably going to be print in place suckers Where you don't even have to assemble them They're just, you know, ready to go Maybe minus the strings, maybe not It's an evolving story The simplest way, if you really want to start printing And so on, is to send an email to Let's get started at enablingthefuture.org That's probably the ending commercial, right? Let's get started at enablingthefuture.org Or go to enablingthefuture.org Or the Enable Community Foundation And don't fail to notice That we're looking for volunteers of all stripes Including those who want to help sponsor Our upcoming conference Thank you, I'd love to talk to any of you Who want to continue the conversation For those of you who wondered You don't have these three rooms today One, two, three, and four are what used to be Four, five, and six And one room past them So if you go over there It's an army like a draft Go to those rooms Not those rooms I'd now like you to see when they're respective If you think they're going to be a little bit of help