Three-year-old Preston Bundy seemed over the moon with his choice of colours for his new left hand.
“I want to be orange,” he said.
Preston was born with a condition called Symbrachydactyly, which is an underdevelopment of the hand.
“The biggest thing in my head was that kids are going to make fun of him,” mom Jamie Bundy told KSNT. “Kids are cruel. Kids are mean.”
WATCH: 2-year-old receives 3D printed prosthetic hand
But innovative minds at a local community college are using 3D printing technology to turn Jamie’s fears into a reason to celebrate her son’s difference.
Students at Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas run the “Fab Lab” where almost any object can be created from inexpensive plastic, including prosthetic hands.
The lab first created a hand last fall for another child, inspiring them to start “Hand Up Weekends.”
The event is for families looking for an alternative to medical prosthetics which can cost up to several thousand dollars. 3D printed hands can be created for less than $40 of material.
“We are amazed at the things he can do with his hand that we didn’t think he would ever be able to do,” said Bundy.
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