BURNABY, September 16, 2026 – Neil Squire’s Makers Making Change program is partnering with Bambu Lab and six 3D printing focused accessibility organizations to launch Make for Good, a global accessibility design challenge on MakerWorld, the world’s largest platform for sharing, downloading, and printing 3D models.

This fall, designers and 3D-printer users worldwide will be invited to create assistive devices that address a real-world need for persons with disabilities.

Makers Making Change — along with partners PrintLab, Ayúdame3D, Emerging Tech Lab at Rancho Los Amigos, e-NABLE France, MakeGood, and Rightfooted Foundation International — will be sharing design briefs based on the real needs of persons with disabilities we’ve worked with. Makers will be tasked with taking one of these briefs to design a working 3D printed device that addresses the need, and that can be printed and replicated by other makers.

In total, there are 24 design briefs that makers can choose from. Prompts we’ve submitted include a knitting-needle support for people who have had a stroke, a guitar pick that stays in place with limited grip, and a marker-cap aid a teacher who has limited grip strength can use without another person’s help. In all, there’s briefs covering a wide variety of disabilities, ranging from helping with essential tasks like brushing your teeth and putting on socks to recreational activities that improve quality of life like playing pickleball.

Bambu Lab will host the challenge on MakerWorld, its vibrant community of makers and free library of 3D models. MakerWorld has become the largest community of 3D makers. This is the first time MakerWorld is mobilizing its community of designers to work with people with disabilities on specific, everyday needs.

Makers will have two months to submit their designs. We, along with our accessibility organization partners, will then spend one month printing shortlisted models and testing them. Feedback from that testing will inform the final results. The grand prize winner in each design category will receive a Bambu Lab A1 3D Printer.

Winning files will be added to open libraries and distributed through volunteer networks that already deliver devices in more than 70 countries.

Each organization is responsible for a different part of the process:

• Ayúdame3D, headquartered in Spain, will promote the challenge in Spain and send winning devices to communities around the world including Africa. It has distributed more than 1000 free “trésdesis” arms in 70 countries since 2017.
• Emerging Tech Lab at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, based in the U.S., helps ensure designs reflect the lived experiences, interests, goals, and everyday environments of the people they are intended to support.
• e-NABLE France will take the challenge to French-speaking makers. Its 450-plus volunteers have already fitted more than 200 3D-printed hands.
• MakeGood, based in the U.S., advises on briefs rooted in real user research. Since 2021 it has made free, custom assistive devices, including the Toddler Mobility Trainer, a fully 3D-printed wheelchair for children.
• Makers Making Change, a Neil Squire Society program based in Canada, will promote the contest in Canada. Winning designs will be considered for our open-source assistive technology library for our network of volunteer makers to build for people with disabilities.
• PrintLab, based in the U.K., brings a human-centered design toolkit used in its assistive-technology challenge since 2020.
• Rightfooted Foundation International, based in the U.S., is bringing briefs from the limb-difference community, including work done with Jessica Cox and will help get finished models to the people who need them

Makers Making Change will also be providing OpenAT Resources and Templates to help makers as they design and document their devices for other makers to replicate.

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About Neil Squire
“We use Technology, Knowledge, and Passion to Empower Canadians with Disabilities.” Neil Squire, the Canadian leader in assistive technology, has been revolutionizing the lives of Canadians with disabilities since 1984. Their work, which is focused on Innovation, Digital Literacy, Employment, and Assistive Technology, enables people with disabilities to achieve their goals, reach their full potential and continue living life to the fullest.

About Makers Making Change
Makers Making Change, an initiative launched by Neil Squire in 2016, leverages the capacity of community based Makers, Occupational Therapists, and Volunteers to develop and deliver affordable Open Source Assistive Technologies.