01Childhood — 2020
I wanted to build something
I grew up watching DIY videos. Many were in English, which I didn’t understand yet. I wanted to understand how individual parts fitted together to make something that worked.
In my final years of primary school, I built Pomocna Dłoń, a humanoid hand using the open-source InMoov project and a Youbionic model. I printed the parts in 3D, assembled the mechanism and wrote the software myself. In 2020, it won Nowa Era’s Projektanci Edukacji competition. That project came out of many hours at the 3D printer and computer.

The people developing SuperHand at Bioengineering.pl, an R&D centre in Wrocław, found my project and got in touch. The founder, Wojciech Jopek, invited me over and showed me what he was working on. He shared his knowledge and helped me with parts. It was my first visit of that kind, and my first chance to see engineers at work up close.































