All Cases

The people
behind the arms.

Each case below is a real person, a child, a teenager, an adult, somewhere in the world who needed a hand. I documented every one from the first message to the final photo.

O.C. in school uniform pointing proudly at her pink prosthetic arm, Abuja Nigeria 010

O.C.

Abuja, Nigeria

A 5-year-old whose case had waited over a year on the e-NABLE hub. Two Kinetic Arms, pink and purple/yellow, shipped to Abuja. She wore one to school the week they arrived.
Noah, 4 years old, beaming with a huge grin and holding a toy car gripped in his dark blue prosthetic hand, at home in Strand, South Africa 009

Noah

Strand, Western Cape  ·  South Africa

4 years old, born with Symbrachydactyly. He asked for blue. Two Thumbless Kinetic Hands were printed and shipped to South Africa. He calls it his robot Chase hand and shows it to everyone.
008 S.P., Fort Lauderdale, Florida

S.P.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida  ·  USA

A 63-year-old guitarist who lost the tip of his index finger. Months of dead ends, and then a message on New Year's Eve. Six weeks later, he strummed a C and G chord.
007 AI portrait of S. wearing a rose and teal prosthetic arm

S.

West Bank, Palestine

A three-year-old girl who received a Kinetic Arm built to match an AI portrait, rose, plum, and teal.
006 Kinetic Arm Left on white background, one of two arms built for the Uganda campaign

E.F. & O.E.

Uganda

Two arms, one campaign. A right and a left Kinetic Arm built for two young men in Kampala, coordinated through the Uganda e-NABLE Coalition in 2025.

2025 Uganda Campaign Kinetic Arm
005 W. smiling with eyes closed, prosthetic hand resting on his cheek

W.

China

4 years old, congenital left hand difference. His father had tried to print a hand himself and couldn't. He found e-NABLE, found Laila, and waited patiently through a long winter. She built him a custom thumbless configuration so he could use his own thumb alongside it.

June 2025 Congenital Age 4
004 Mi. at the tattoo studio with his custom airbrushed Kinetic Arm

Mi.

Nevada, USA

Almost 14, 5'10", born without his right arm. Calls it his "nub." Wants to be a biomedical engineer. His mom's tattoo artist painted the finished arm. He wears it to school every day.

May 2025 Congenital Age 13
003 A. smiling with his gold Kinetic Arm. Romania

A.

Romania

A 7-year-old boy from Bucharest with a congenital left arm difference. The Kinetic Arm at 55%, the smallest I'd built. It took six weeks to arrive. He wore it to school the next morning.

Nov 2024 Congenital Age 7
002 M. walking with friends at school, arm visible

M.

Pakistan

A 10-year-old girl born without a right hand, and a design problem that needed custom files from Free3DHands. The school filmed a documentary.

Nov 2024 Congenital Age 10
001 K. with his gold prosthetic arm

K.

Philippines

My first case. An 11-year-old who lost his right arm to electrocution. I built him two prosthetics and shipped both, he chose the gold one.

Oct 2024 Below elbow Age 11
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