In this blog you will find all of our publications concerning the works done by the team, technical texts or tutos describing our methods, some explanations of our technical solutions and our original designs. The solutions we implement will sometimes need to be commented about specific questions that you are allowed to submit. Feel free to send us a mail or leave comments under the articles. To the extent of our availability we will answer every question.
Our original designs are open-source 
even if the STL files are not (yet) published on Thingiverse.
Some of our posts are still written into french waiting for translation. In the mean time you can browse the french blog to read these posts.
Happy readings.
DUCK : A Device for Upper-limb Cycling Kit
Team Gre-Nable is keen to present a project done by a group of students from INP Grenoble collaborating with members of our team. team Gre-nable has the ability to promote and use the outcomes of the study to answer all needs required by E-Nable members. This...
Ski pole
Manon, hope for the 2030 Olympics ? Our previous design of the ski pole aimed at Pierre-Luc, based on the principle of ball joint that enclosed his palm, does not seem appropriate to us in Manon's case, because her clamp function can be performed by his thumb and his...
Multi Tool Holder with Ball Joint
Pen/Pencil MTH Holder Evolution During the delivery of our first MultiToolHlder [MTH] dedicated to writing, it came to us that our method for positioning the pen was not necessarily that desired by the wearer of the prosthesis. Every person who writes has his...
Electrically Assisted Flexibone Hand
This article presents a novel design for a low-cost, 3D printed, electronically assisted prosthesis for a transmetacarpal amputee. This work is the performed thanks to a collaboration between Team Gre-Nable and a group of students from the University of Bath,...
A knife holder for a child
The context Lina is a 5 years old girl when we meet her for the first time. She was born with a malformed right hand equipped with two fingers. One of these is weak. She cannot flex both of her fingers, but only move them laterally as a kind of needle...
Terminal Socket for Keyboard Typing & Smartphone Use
Open source project: This design, like all those made by Team Gre-Nable, is open source. We explain in these articles why and how they were done, the reasons for our technical choices like the means and tools we used. All 3D models are available under the Onshape...
Orthosis for a Cook
Yann's Life Status : Yann is an adult suffering from a pathology of the nerves (an NMMBC [1] for topic's specialist) which in particular renders ineffective the control of a muscle of his left thumb, the one which brings the thumb into the position of opposition...
Design Of An Assistive Upper Limb
Here is the final report written by 3 graduate students who worked during 4 months full time to build a proof of concept for an assistive system dedicated to ease utilization of e-nable printed apparatus. They together investigated the state of the art in...
Wrist Lock System: Relieving wrist bending
Context: Classically, bending the wrist enables handling objects with an E-nable hand prosthesis (Raptor or Phoenix). But, we identified that this bending movement, necessary to trigger a grip, led to tire the user of the prosthesis with time. After Nathalie has...
Why we are using Onshape for designing our projects ?
Most of us, makers of the e-Nable community are not professionals of mechanical design and we are learning this new activity the more we could. To ease the learning curve, we need to access the most simplest but powerful tools. From the various posts published on...
Matteo’s Release – Technical Aspects
Matteo's arm: Technical Aspects Matteo's arm has been designed mainly based on the Unlimbited Arm , and more precisely the Alfie Edition. This page will document why and how we proposed some modifications of the UnLimbited Arm. The main set of...