Within the framework of the European Solidarity Corps / Solidarity Project “3D Vision”, the youth team led by E-Nable Greece, designed, built and
delivered the first board game “Griniari” to the trainers of the Center of Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind in Kallithea. In addition, as it was Christmas time, we offered 3D printed Christmas ornaments to all CERT students. From the Solidarity project team, the design and construction of the board game and the ornaments were undertaken by: Stavros Kolios, Xenia Sarantaena, Konstantinos Papadopoulos and Sevi Stavrianakou!
The project aimed at the development of a methodology for transforming 2D digital images (from school books, fairytales or other leaflets) into 3D printed tactile images for Visual impaired students. Moreover the images of two visualized fairytales designed by Amimoni, during the project “Fairytale without limits”, were transformed into tactile images, “Gata Koumpara” & “Koukouska“. This action is implemented in the frame of the programme Points of Support and is being funded by the following charity organizations: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, TIMA Charitable Foundation, Hellenic Hope charity organisation, Captain Vassilis & Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation, A. G. Leventis Foundation, A.C.
Laskaridis Charitable Foundation, Costas M. Lemos Foundation and Bodossaki Foundation. In the frame of the project, a guidebook and an online video were designed for guiding any stakeholder who wishes to transform any digital image into a .stl file and final, via 3D printing, into a tactile image.
Below you can download the .stl files (in order to 3D print them by yourselves or ask a 3D printing expert to do it for you) for two fairytales:
Here you will find the audio and visualized form of the fairy tale and here the .stl files for 3D printing the images and transforming them into tactile images.
Here you will find the audio and visualized form of the fairy tale and here the .stl files for 3D printing the images and transforming them into tactile images.
Mahdi is a 14 year old refugee from Syria that we have met in Elaionas camp in Athens, Greece. He was born without his 4 fingers of his left hand keeping and with his thumb fully grown. So we created for him a thumbless Phoenix Hand using his favorite colors. The device’s maker is Thanasis Mitzifiris and he delivered the device to the recipient on Saturday 01/12/2018. We wish this device can make a difference in Mahdis’ life . It certainly changed ours.
Fadi was injured during the war in Syria and lost his right arm cause of a bomb attack. Fadi’s case was a difficult one since there was not enough arm part and bone left to create a fully functional hand for him. We reached out to the community and the news was not as encouraging as we hoped for. We communicated with Fadi and informed him about the situation and the possibility of a failure. He insisted on trying so we did deliver to him a kwawu Socket Hand in skin tone. The hand cannot fully function since Fadi does not have enough arm to support the device but it offers some kind of functionality and serves to aesthetic reasons. Our next goal is to incorporate muscle sensors and turn this hand into an electronic one. The device’s maker is Julie Tsoni and she delivered the device to the recipient on Friday 07/12/2018.