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Project Daniel

Project Daniel uses 3D printing to make a prosthetic arm for a boy who lost both arms in a bomb attack. Plus, how to turn a box and loudspeaker into a hackable musical instrument.

Daniel Omar lost both his arms in a brutal bomb attack. He is one of many in South Sudan to suffer a similar fate. But Daniel counts himself lucky because he is also the beneficiary of a project inspired by his story. When he heard about Daniel, the entrepreneur, Mick Ebeling, launched Project Daniel - a project to use affordable 3D printing to print Daniel a prosthetic arm. Click talks to Mick Ebeling about the use of this technology to provide arms for amputees, and about his organisation, Not Impossible Labs.

Ten musicians gathered at the end of last month at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary College in the east end of London, to give a premiere performance on an entirely new digital instrument. But when Roland Pease arrived, expecting the latest in digital sophistication, he found what had been put together was little more than a speaker cube, with a little extra electronics thrown in. Roland Pease reports on an intriguing new take on cubism.

(Photo: Project Daniel - Mohammad and Daniel wearing prosthetic arms. Courtesy of Not Impossible Labs)

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18 minutes

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Wed 5 Feb 2014 09:32GMT

Chapters

  • Project Daniel: Part 1

    Mick Ebeling on using 3D printing for a prosthetic limb for a boy injured in a bomb blast.

    Duration: 06:12

  • Hackable Instruments

    Roland Pease reports on the hackable musical cube.

    Duration: 06:40

  • Project Daniel: Part 2

    Mick Ebeling discusses the tech and philanthropy behind Not Impossible Labs.

    Duration: 03:19

Broadcasts

  • Tue 4 Feb 2014 20:32GMT
  • Wed 5 Feb 2014 02:32GMT
  • Wed 5 Feb 2014 09:32GMT

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