SolidWorks World General Session day 2: Bionic Builders on Discovery

The General Session on Day 2 of SolidWorks World 2011 profiled a very interesting new show on Discovery Channel called Bionic Builders.  The show centers around Casey Pieretti and Bill Spracher.  Pieretti is a stuntman that has been in films like Spider-Man 2, Starship Troopers and Serenity.  Before his stunt career started, he lost the lower portion of his leg when he was 19.  Since then, he has been looking for ways to allow ambutees to transition from “being disabled to being fully enabled, but different”.  Spracher is the engineer that works with Pieretti to turn his ideas into reality.  As Pierretti said, “I don’t want to be enabled; I want to be super-enabled.”

Bionic Builders is the culmination Pieretti’s and Spracher’s quest to create those super abilities through design of new prosthetic limbs with awesome abilities.  In this show, they allow Pieretti to swim, jump, run better.

I’ll have more information about this topic later on.

Author: fcsuper

As a drafter, mechanical designer and CAD engineer, I've been in the mechanical design field since 1991. For the first 8 years of my career, I was an AutoCAD professional. I utilized AutoLISP and many other AutoCAD customization features to streamline drafting activities for 6+ drafters and designers. I authored several custom functions, one of which was published in the March 1997 issue of Cadalyst Magazine. Since 1998, I've been used SolidWorks non-stop. I've worked to utilize the SolidWorks' user environment to simplify drafting and design activities for 20+ engineers. I've created this website to provide current information about SolidWorks from a variety of contributors. More recently, I am now employed by Dassault Systemes as SOLIDWORKS Sr. Product Definition Manager to improve drawing, annotation and MBD related areas. View all posts by fcsuper