{"id":2241,"date":"2011-01-26T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2011-02-01T21:56:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:56:37","slug":"solidworks-world-general-session-day-2-bionic-builders-on-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks World General Session day 2: Bionic Builders on Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Session on Day 2 of SolidWorks World 2011 profiled a very interesting new show on Discovery Channel called <a title=\"Bionic Builders\" href=\"http:\/\/bionicbuilders.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Bionic Builders<\/a>.\u00a0 The show centers around Casey Pieretti and Bill Spracher.\u00a0 Pieretti is a stuntman that has been in films like <a title=\"Spider-Man 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/homevideo\/spider-man2\/\" target=\"_self\">Spider-Man 2<\/a>, <a title=\"Starship Troopers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120201\/\" target=\"_self\">Starship Troopers <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflymovie.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Serenity<\/a>.\u00a0 Before his stunt\u00a0career started, he lost the lower portion of his leg when he was 19.\u00a0 Since then, he has been looking for ways to allow ambutees to transition from &#8220;being disabled to being fully enabled, but different&#8221;.\u00a0 Spracher is the engineer that works with\u00a0Pieretti to turn his ideas into reality.\u00a0 As Pierretti said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be enabled; 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