3D Printed Prosthetics for my son and other kids for free

This is the middle of Jamie's journey, some of you will have seen over the last few years and him being able to use his "Left hand" for the first time ever, and we've helped many others along the way!

Before Christmas 2017 we had approached Team Unlimbited for a 3D printed UnLimbited Arm, but being as busy as they were we were then informed there's an 18 month waiting list. That's when our journey together started, looking into 3D printers etc and which one to buy to be able to "print our own", we watched YouTube video's on how these printers worked and took the plunge before Christmas and bought an Anet A8 which we constructed ourselves, a few weeks later our first 3d arm was produced and for the first time Jamie managed to hold my hand, hold a torch and even play catch with a ball, priceless really. Those videos are on our YouTube channel.

After sharing on a few Facebook forums as a way to thank people for their support and to show his achievement, his videos were shared worldwide, he appeared in The Mirror, in The New York Post, front page of the Gazette and the ITV news, all within a week, crazy really.

A fully developed arm currently costs around £10,000 + and even Jamie himself thinks this is too much. With current technology etc, buying our own sensors, electrics and motors we feel these can be developed on a budget, and to try an utilise current options within the market place. I've opened this GoFundMe page to assist our journey.

This isn't going to be an overnight thing, and we're aware it will take time. but feel current technology today is at a level for the home user to be able to do this, and at a reduced cost to current options.

Any money raised will be used for printer upgrades, other equipment and scanners, electronics and sensors and consumables, and we also wish to build arms/limbs for other children in a similar situation to Jamie while we're developing this and new designs, these arms for others are supplied free of charge so funds raised would also help towards rolls of filament which is the main consumable we use.

I'm thankful to anyone who has donate or wants to donate each and every penny goes straight back into helping Jamie and others.