Markforged is one company making huge strides in the additive manufacturing field, with Metal Fused Filament Fabrication and Continuous Fiber Fabrication. In today's episode I talked with Nicki Chamberlain-Simon, Certified Prosthetist Orthotist and a good friend who has worked with me on a project that involved the Markforged Mark Two 3D Printer. What started as a chance encounter at Northwestern's Master's in Prosthetics and Orthotics program, Nicki and I learned that we had been simultaneously working on trying to use the Mark Two to create lower extremity prosthetic componentry. Although I was doing so in the US, and she was in Costa Rica, we were unknowingly working together to make strides towards a patient end-use device which was 3D printed through Continuous Fiber Fabrication. Through our ongoing work, a patent was filed and the mechanical testing has begun!Nicki Chamberlain-Simon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ni....colette-chamberlain- more about what we do at Ascent Fabrication by checking us out online!Website: www.ascentfab.comEmail: joe@ascentfab.comInstagram: @ascentfabLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkfairley3rd/