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My supervisors and I have been batting correspondence with the local children's hospitals with methods that 3D printers can be utilized in the field beyond making hobby gadgets and DIY dildos are prosthetics. For the most part, there are a few of the doctors talking about going abroad and making these for kids who lost their limbs due to being a casualty of war, disease, and other inhumane acts. Since we have 2 active printers available to the public, my coworkers and I have been tasked to creating a prototype using the Standard PLA until we can perhaps try again with ABS for a more solid version. The brilliance is that it is also available to the public who cannot afford a prosthetic. Since we charge about a dollar per meter of filament, the actual cost to print it here (as long as the files are resized accordingly) is about 15-30 dollars. The patron can also select different colors. Want a hot pink hand? What about glow-in-the-dark? Or a rainbow mess of colors? We can do it! What makes me very happy is that we get a lot of questions about this from the general public as well with children who need one, and I am excited to show them the end product.