A Graphic User Interface (GUI) to build a 3D printed personalized Prosthetic Hand

Abstract

This project aims to create a tool that allows medical staff to use an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) based application to generate STL models of a customizable prosthetic hand, that can be 3d printed to fit a specific patients hand size. Since the whole process of adjust and adapt the prosthetics devices could consume most of the resources of small medical attention centers. And the necessity to adapt the prosthetic devices is highly relevant when these are intended to be used by the pediatric population. This software creates a customizable parametric 3d model for a trans-radial prosthetic hand and all its necessary components for 3d print and assemble it. The software is intended to be operated by non-trained staff, reducing the costs of remodeling or adapting the original model to fit the necessity of a patient, allowing to produce personalized prosthetic devices in a cost-effective manner with an effortless customization approach. This will allow that medical practitioners with a lack of technical background to get involved in spreading 3D-prosthetics. Also, using open-source parametric 3D-models could lead to existing 3D-prosthetic projects that will adopt this method of customization, allowing the expansion of 3D-printed prosthetics at developing-countries reaching all needing patients. Ultimately, this tool will allow the medical staff to focus on adjusting or replacing the prosthetic devices more often than previously, due to be considered too expensive..