quite often I find myself on stages like
this talking about 3d printing and
sometimes I feel like a fraud because
what I’m talking about essentially is
like into someone who printed a
Microsoft Word document using a print on
paper that’s nothing really why we’re
here is because in 9 years ago we
started a foundation where a group of
young professionals fresh out of school
and we wanted to make an impact wanted
to touch our communities like many young
NGOs are doing today the way to do it
differently we wanted to impact people
with less resources because hey we don’t
have money we still don’t have money but
then again you know we’re looking at
small problems that we could solve in
our various communities and from Narnia
from 9 years ago till now with
metamorphosed and we’ve joined hands
with other NGOs like the Wesley that’s
the water for English water for
sustainable living initiative where we
provide potable water for underserved
communities foundations like skills
Arthur School Foundation where we mentor
kids on the verge of crossing over
between secondary school and university
being that we were actually
professionals in the field actually
so every year we try to do something
impart people till in 2015 we stumbled
on something extremely amazing we
stumbled on 3d printing now 3d printing
was just a means to an end as part of
the bring back our girls group we went
to an IDP camp in Apache so there are
lots of people run away from the
Northeast and we’re group of NGOs that
went there
and our plan for cyber logic foundation
was to capture the bio-data of students
so that we could take them on on our
scholarship program we were able to
capture 50 students and amongst them one
of them a nine-year-old boy called Moosa
had his hand amputated from the wrist
due to a fire incident at his
grandmother’s house there was a fire he
happened to be there it was an accident
you know his hands with his hands were
badly burnt to the point that gangrene
selected to grow on them and they had to
be chopped off so here we are trying to
you know provide scholarships to kids
and just keep them in school because the
purpose of having them in ID becomes
because we hope that they will go back
home someday so how do we keep them in
class for those one to two years that
they’re in abuja as refugees we went
home and we kept thinking how do we help
this little boy you know who and 2015
there has to be an innovative
cost-effective way to give him back his
motor skills that he so desires speaking
with Musa a very vibrant nine-year-old
boy with you know with with the hope you
know for the future and we sort of asked
him so what our experience is you know
being having facing this this accident
and living with it and mostly it is like
in class his sort of the center of
potential for the wrong reason because
he’s sort of incomplete right
so we went online how do we give this
boy prosthetic limbs the cost-effective
and after a lot of research we found we
found 3d printing and a group called
enabling the future now these are 3d
printers 3d printing has been here since
the 1980s and there are mainstream in
really big industries like the
Aeronautics and the autumn about mobile
industries a lot of cars we drive today
have 3d printed parts a lot of planes we
fly today have 3d printed parts so but
3d printer 3d printing caught wildfire
when they started making desk desktop
size 3d printers just like the HP
printers we have at home today that
campaigns can photocopy at the same time
and that cheap and they can give you
what you’re looking for even though we
have the bigger printers therefore mass
production of of stuff so these are a
couple of 3d printers and the material
will use the 3d printers called filament
mostly there are temp thermoplastics but
the 3d printed materials you can 3d
print in different materials like wood
ceramic different alloys of metal and so
on so we want to learn we’re looking for
a solution to this unique problem our
goal is we need to give Musa prosthetic
limbs that are cost-effective and they
are functional so that he can go back to
class you know and maybe even be cool so
we found a group of we found a community
of engineers doctors 3d printing
enthusiasts and also disabled people in
need of protected prosthetic devices
they came together collectively and
individually design 3d models of
prosthetic limbs and put them online for
free provided you do not use them for
commercial gain which is that’s exactly
what we’re looking for you know so it
was like the universe was actually in
our prayers so enabling the future have
two designs they have wrist powered
prosthetic limbs and elbow pads
prosthetic limbs so people whose
amputation is from the wrist up off of
the elbow down right we have so enabled
my future has 3d printed models online
for free for them so just like just like
downloading attempt
it’s a CV template from online and
editing it becomes your CV but all you
have to do is download this download
these files and and manipulate them and
size them to be intended recipient so
we’re very excited we went on Amazon
after much much reviews after much
research on reading reviews we found we
settled on a MakerBot fifth edition 3d
printer we ordered it and in three weeks
it was here in that time we had sucked
up everything about enabling enable
prosthetic limbs how they work how to
assemble them how to 3d print them and
how to fit them to the intended
recipient we are also taking mooses
measurements so that we can actually
make his own restaurant accounts so this
is the first picture on the right is his
Musa Moses hands right the right hand is
the one that is a picture 10 and we’re
using basic skills what I’m trying to
tell you people is that 3d printing is
not rocket science you know it’s we were
doing these things from from no
experience at all – the fact that I’m
from an IT background and a lot of us
are engineers that we watch YouTube
videos and it was basically
do-it-yourself so we’re using rulers
we’re using scissors and were using
sellotape just crude materials that we
have in our homes the second object the
second picture on the right is the 3d
model from enabling the future which we
just downloaded and put it on the file
so on the software resize it and we send
it to the printer glass it the picture
the first picture on the bottom left is
printing the palm and the bottom right
is printing the fingers so totally it
takes about 20 hours to print a
prosthetic on giving that were an idea
and tech light you know you have to have
a system with generate or you clears and
may take light the gizmo has to be
running to turn it on because if
anything happens to if the 3d printer
loses power our printing you have to
change in X
and there’s no technical support you
can’t send the printer to America and
get it back you know you have to spend
money like I said money we don’t have
all right so after 30 hours of printing
many mistakes made and lessons learned
so this was at night X I think two years
ago so this is Moosa with his hand you
can see the smile on his face so I think
afterwards the video again we can see
the smile on his face he didn’t believe
what just happened he just clenched his
so we’ve we’ve gone on next slide so
we’ve gone on to make prosthetic limbs
for other people in Legos this is a four
year old girl her name is success she
wasn’t amputate that this is how she was
born so I mean the things she can do
with her hands as they are they’re
amazing you know but still you know
she’s incomplete you know she looks well
and she wants to be normal like everyone
else
so we got her three prosthetic hands one
in pink one in gray on one in blue and
successes in Lagos and she’s a very
bright kid with a very bright future I
see her I see her in the arts in the
arts arts land we’ve also gone on to so
this is also sure that you know it’s
also applicable to adults so this is
plan cut his his a pharmacist very
amazing fellow he was once the student
president or pharmacist in Nigeria right
and this is him
you know actually interacting with his
3d printed prosthetic eye and the beauty
of it is that is functional they have a
grip and it uses no electricity
it’s to strength technology you have a
flexible string and having non flexible
string these are all designs we have new
designs so these are the new designs
were working on right as you can see
there they’re more natural-looking right
the less you know the less conspicuous
and they’re they don’t use any screws
yeah pretty much
everything is 3d printed and it’s
amazing because in two short years you
know the kind of leap in terms of
so what next
we’ve gone round with collected data of
disabled people across ninety about 200
of them what we’ve noticed is about 80
percent of them and I need leg for
species or wheelchairs and we know that
with the 3d printing technology we can
manufacture these things easily we’re
also designing for the African
environment you know using natural
African natural African colors and also
looking at using African raw materials
so the material for 3d printing is
coffee element usually thermoplastics we
can actually recycle these things
plastic cups non-user parties and
plastic players can be shredded and put
in a funnel into an extruder and it
comes out as filament this is tested so
we can actually use we can actually
recycle our plastic may and actually
we have also gotten requests from
hospitals in Abuja to fabricate tubes
that are hard to find if I forget choose
for the equipment that I had to find you
know this goes to show us you know that
so many little things there’s so many
applications that 3d printing could
solve easily all thanks to Musa you know
and by the way Musa has gone back to
Verona on his back in school the next
project was super excited about super
super super excited about more than the
prosthetic limbs is the Braille and
that’s because of the amount of people
we can impact ever put so these are
these are Braille educational materials
the were using to teach kids to teach
kids mathematics and Sciences using 3d
printed products like multiplication
tables and periodic tables so you put
one piece in a class of 20 you can
impact so many people and it’s less
stressful to make the prosthetic limb so
this is really amazing we’re super
excited about this the opportunities and
and the amount and impact we can make
we’re really excited let me just say
that in five years
3d printing is going to be five times
cheaper and four hundred times faster
took us 20 hours to print a normal press
that they can write cos øz about five
thousand dollars to borrow MakerBot is
going to be five times cheaper and four
hundred times faster their applications
apart from the social good industry
we’ve seen in manufacturing is also in
housing I hope to one day stand on a
stage like this and tell you that we
build low-cost housing using banqueting
my prayer to all of us is that I want
you to look into 3d printing for your
different for different sectors and
different industries where were they an
agriculture and education look into 3d
printing there are applications of 3d
printing that can definitely cut your
cost double your impact and reduce your
time to market thank you very much [Applause]
this talking about 3d printing and
sometimes I feel like a fraud because
what I’m talking about essentially is
like into someone who printed a
Microsoft Word document using a print on
paper that’s nothing really why we’re
here is because in 9 years ago we
started a foundation where a group of
young professionals fresh out of school
and we wanted to make an impact wanted
to touch our communities like many young
NGOs are doing today the way to do it
differently we wanted to impact people
with less resources because hey we don’t
have money we still don’t have money but
then again you know we’re looking at
small problems that we could solve in
our various communities and from Narnia
from 9 years ago till now with
metamorphosed and we’ve joined hands
with other NGOs like the Wesley that’s
the water for English water for
sustainable living initiative where we
provide potable water for underserved
communities foundations like skills
Arthur School Foundation where we mentor
kids on the verge of crossing over
between secondary school and university
being that we were actually
professionals in the field actually
so every year we try to do something
impart people till in 2015 we stumbled
on something extremely amazing we
stumbled on 3d printing now 3d printing
was just a means to an end as part of
the bring back our girls group we went
to an IDP camp in Apache so there are
lots of people run away from the
Northeast and we’re group of NGOs that
went there
and our plan for cyber logic foundation
was to capture the bio-data of students
so that we could take them on on our
scholarship program we were able to
capture 50 students and amongst them one
of them a nine-year-old boy called Moosa
had his hand amputated from the wrist
due to a fire incident at his
grandmother’s house there was a fire he
happened to be there it was an accident
you know his hands with his hands were
badly burnt to the point that gangrene
selected to grow on them and they had to
be chopped off so here we are trying to
you know provide scholarships to kids
and just keep them in school because the
purpose of having them in ID becomes
because we hope that they will go back
home someday so how do we keep them in
class for those one to two years that
they’re in abuja as refugees we went
home and we kept thinking how do we help
this little boy you know who and 2015
there has to be an innovative
cost-effective way to give him back his
motor skills that he so desires speaking
with Musa a very vibrant nine-year-old
boy with you know with with the hope you
know for the future and we sort of asked
him so what our experience is you know
being having facing this this accident
and living with it and mostly it is like
in class his sort of the center of
potential for the wrong reason because
he’s sort of incomplete right
so we went online how do we give this
boy prosthetic limbs the cost-effective
and after a lot of research we found we
found 3d printing and a group called
enabling the future now these are 3d
printers 3d printing has been here since
the 1980s and there are mainstream in
really big industries like the
Aeronautics and the autumn about mobile
industries a lot of cars we drive today
have 3d printed parts a lot of planes we
fly today have 3d printed parts so but
3d printer 3d printing caught wildfire
when they started making desk desktop
size 3d printers just like the HP
printers we have at home today that
campaigns can photocopy at the same time
and that cheap and they can give you
what you’re looking for even though we
have the bigger printers therefore mass
production of of stuff so these are a
couple of 3d printers and the material
will use the 3d printers called filament
mostly there are temp thermoplastics but
the 3d printed materials you can 3d
print in different materials like wood
ceramic different alloys of metal and so
on so we want to learn we’re looking for
a solution to this unique problem our
goal is we need to give Musa prosthetic
limbs that are cost-effective and they
are functional so that he can go back to
class you know and maybe even be cool so
we found a group of we found a community
of engineers doctors 3d printing
enthusiasts and also disabled people in
need of protected prosthetic devices
they came together collectively and
individually design 3d models of
prosthetic limbs and put them online for
free provided you do not use them for
commercial gain which is that’s exactly
what we’re looking for you know so it
was like the universe was actually in
our prayers so enabling the future have
two designs they have wrist powered
prosthetic limbs and elbow pads
prosthetic limbs so people whose
amputation is from the wrist up off of
the elbow down right we have so enabled
my future has 3d printed models online
for free for them so just like just like
downloading attempt
it’s a CV template from online and
editing it becomes your CV but all you
have to do is download this download
these files and and manipulate them and
size them to be intended recipient so
we’re very excited we went on Amazon
after much much reviews after much
research on reading reviews we found we
settled on a MakerBot fifth edition 3d
printer we ordered it and in three weeks
it was here in that time we had sucked
up everything about enabling enable
prosthetic limbs how they work how to
assemble them how to 3d print them and
how to fit them to the intended
recipient we are also taking mooses
measurements so that we can actually
make his own restaurant accounts so this
is the first picture on the right is his
Musa Moses hands right the right hand is
the one that is a picture 10 and we’re
using basic skills what I’m trying to
tell you people is that 3d printing is
not rocket science you know it’s we were
doing these things from from no
experience at all – the fact that I’m
from an IT background and a lot of us
are engineers that we watch YouTube
videos and it was basically
do-it-yourself so we’re using rulers
we’re using scissors and were using
sellotape just crude materials that we
have in our homes the second object the
second picture on the right is the 3d
model from enabling the future which we
just downloaded and put it on the file
so on the software resize it and we send
it to the printer glass it the picture
the first picture on the bottom left is
printing the palm and the bottom right
is printing the fingers so totally it
takes about 20 hours to print a
prosthetic on giving that were an idea
and tech light you know you have to have
a system with generate or you clears and
may take light the gizmo has to be
running to turn it on because if
anything happens to if the 3d printer
loses power our printing you have to
change in X
and there’s no technical support you
can’t send the printer to America and
get it back you know you have to spend
money like I said money we don’t have
all right so after 30 hours of printing
many mistakes made and lessons learned
so this was at night X I think two years
ago so this is Moosa with his hand you
can see the smile on his face so I think
afterwards the video again we can see
the smile on his face he didn’t believe
what just happened he just clenched his
so we’ve we’ve gone on next slide so
we’ve gone on to make prosthetic limbs
for other people in Legos this is a four
year old girl her name is success she
wasn’t amputate that this is how she was
born so I mean the things she can do
with her hands as they are they’re
amazing you know but still you know
she’s incomplete you know she looks well
and she wants to be normal like everyone
else
so we got her three prosthetic hands one
in pink one in gray on one in blue and
successes in Lagos and she’s a very
bright kid with a very bright future I
see her I see her in the arts in the
arts arts land we’ve also gone on to so
this is also sure that you know it’s
also applicable to adults so this is
plan cut his his a pharmacist very
amazing fellow he was once the student
president or pharmacist in Nigeria right
and this is him
you know actually interacting with his
3d printed prosthetic eye and the beauty
of it is that is functional they have a
grip and it uses no electricity
it’s to strength technology you have a
flexible string and having non flexible
string these are all designs we have new
designs so these are the new designs
were working on right as you can see
there they’re more natural-looking right
the less you know the less conspicuous
and they’re they don’t use any screws
yeah pretty much
everything is 3d printed and it’s
amazing because in two short years you
know the kind of leap in terms of
so what next
we’ve gone round with collected data of
disabled people across ninety about 200
of them what we’ve noticed is about 80
percent of them and I need leg for
species or wheelchairs and we know that
with the 3d printing technology we can
manufacture these things easily we’re
also designing for the African
environment you know using natural
African natural African colors and also
looking at using African raw materials
so the material for 3d printing is
coffee element usually thermoplastics we
can actually recycle these things
plastic cups non-user parties and
plastic players can be shredded and put
in a funnel into an extruder and it
comes out as filament this is tested so
we can actually use we can actually
recycle our plastic may and actually
we have also gotten requests from
hospitals in Abuja to fabricate tubes
that are hard to find if I forget choose
for the equipment that I had to find you
know this goes to show us you know that
so many little things there’s so many
applications that 3d printing could
solve easily all thanks to Musa you know
and by the way Musa has gone back to
Verona on his back in school the next
project was super excited about super
super super excited about more than the
prosthetic limbs is the Braille and
that’s because of the amount of people
we can impact ever put so these are
these are Braille educational materials
the were using to teach kids to teach
kids mathematics and Sciences using 3d
printed products like multiplication
tables and periodic tables so you put
one piece in a class of 20 you can
impact so many people and it’s less
stressful to make the prosthetic limb so
this is really amazing we’re super
excited about this the opportunities and
and the amount and impact we can make
we’re really excited let me just say
that in five years
3d printing is going to be five times
cheaper and four hundred times faster
took us 20 hours to print a normal press
that they can write cos øz about five
thousand dollars to borrow MakerBot is
going to be five times cheaper and four
hundred times faster their applications
apart from the social good industry
we’ve seen in manufacturing is also in
housing I hope to one day stand on a
stage like this and tell you that we
build low-cost housing using banqueting
my prayer to all of us is that I want
you to look into 3d printing for your
different for different sectors and
different industries where were they an
agriculture and education look into 3d
printing there are applications of 3d
printing that can definitely cut your
cost double your impact and reduce your
time to market thank you very much [Applause]
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