Get Ready, Maker Faire – Glitter is Coming

After getting back in town from Walt Disney World Resort, there was no time to waste! Jordan met up with her design partner, Sam Hobish, to talk about how their project is going.

Where is it going?

Well… It’s going back to San Francisco where this project started in the first place!

Jordan and I have the chance to return for a quick weekend so she can work with Sam along with the other Superhero Cyborg KIDmob kids and present the latest iteration of Project Unicorn to Maker Faire Bay Area! It’s going to be an intense and exhausting weekend, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity for Jordan to work with Sam in person.

At the same time, I shipped off Jordan’s traditional prosthetic arms and one of the previous iterations of Project Unicorn to our prosthetist in Chicago, David Rotter. We’ve pulled him into our maker experience and have asked Dave to offer insight and share some of his ideas. It’s the ultimate Maker Health project: We’ve got the “patient” (Jordan), the “expert” (Dave) and a “maker” (Sam) working together on a project. It really makes everyone involved a maker… but I’m just so proud to see the kind of collaboration we have on this project. It’s something I only imagined a few years ago when I initially learned about how 3D printers were helping change the world of prosthetics.

I’m really excited to see what Jordan and Sam make happen with a new prototype and I’m excited Dave is offering insight at the same time. Thanks again to Autodesk and KIDmob for making an experience that I thought was only for five days change Jordan’s perspective forever.