The “3d Mechanical Hand – Maker Movement” was inspired by two strangers (a movie prop and puppet maker from the US and a carpenter from South Africa who has lost several fingers in an accident). They found each other via the internet and came together from 10,000 miles apart – to create a prosthetic hand device for a small child in South Africa …and then gave the plans away – for free…so that those in need of the device could make them for themselves or have someone make it for them.