Rayden Kahae aka “Bubba” is a 3-years-old who lives
in Maui with his family. He's just like every other kid
— he spends his time playing with his siblings and
loves superheroes. The only thing that sets Bubba
apart is that he was born without fingers on his right
hand.
“Bubba was born with ABS which is Amniotic Band
Syndrome,” his grandmother, Rulan Waikiki, told
Hawaii’s KHON2. “It’s where the baby’s hands end up
without some fingers, some with none, couple little
stumps instead of fingers.

But Bubba knew he was different from the other kids.
Rulan says he would look at his sister’s hands and say
that he wanted his like her. Recently, that changed:
“He wanted an Iron Man hand.”
Rulan thought the family would never be able to afford
a $40,000 prosthetic hand, until a few weeks ago when
she heard about a company that uses 3-D printing to
make mechanical body-powered hands for $50.
That company is E-NABLE, which started as two guys
who teamed up to create an affordable prosthetic for
a child in South Africa and has turned into a
movement of some 1,500 people working to create
“hand devices for those in need.”
Not only did they make Bubba his Iron Man hand, but
they did it for free.
According the The Daily News, the hand “relies on
wrist movement — if [Bubba] moved his wrist down
towards his forearm, the hand closes. If he raises his
wrist, the hand opens.”
“He would never want to show it to people,” Bubba’s
mom, Rayven Kahae, explains. “Now, he shows it to
everybody. He’s so proud...Instead of being teased at
school for not having fingers, he is stared at for his
cool hand.”
Bubba’s dad filmed the moment his son put on his
new hand for the first time.
“As soon as he put it on and was able to close the
hand, his face just lit up,” grandma recalls. “I’m not
sure if in the video, you can hear it on there, but he
does say, ‘I can hold my own hand.’”
“He literally thinks he’s Iron Man,” Bubba’s mom says.
“It’s amazing.”