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¡Sí se puede! | Leonardo Viscarra | TEDxUMSA


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[Applause]

thank you but first I love you

ask some is I could give a hand

you can give him a hand to see a knife

but since I see that they can not give me a

hand I will literally have to put

mine and can not continue with the

talk grabbing confidence and that all

We owe it to each other as if right now

were my family and talk

much better and my name so I

they have seen is leonardo

Since my five years it has been my

I always asked him for a prosthesis

every Christmas

Dad was a noel a prosthesis

prosthesis because I was already aware of the

absence of my hand

My parents explained to me the absence of

They were explaining hand told me I look

Leo had an appointment like that and although you’re either

you are not physically the same as the

other children but you can express yourself

as they do not

then that motivated me a lot that

do that my parents to teach me to

always be strong never to be left behind

never because he suffered from a disability

can not do what most people

he does it but for me that was not a

obstacle for me that was rather

an inspiration since with that I

could I could feel better with

with me and I saw that I could do

better things although I suffered from bullying

at eight years old I had cars to

remote control had helicopter to

remote control and that I loved my

Dad bought me

we were always going to buy even one

to handle them and that I liked

a lot

so in that I had a car

remote control that reigns no longer

it was already piles and it did not work

what I did was with fennel with a

ball of cannon without metal latina and it

broke and I see inside that I had the

plate but inside they had the

engines and that interested me a lot

that me that time and running the pope and

I say what is this for?

what is this for, my dad

I will apply it tells me look son is the engine

but for such is the plate and serves to

so and potatoes and your time to explain to me

I told him I want to do things with

this teach me and he taught me and he

I had an old soldering iron

I do not know if some know he’s a soldering iron

know if they give me a soldering iron

had

and at eight years old and I learned to weld

18 years I already knew how to weld that to me

It still inspired me because I saw that my dad

I had confidence in me and my dad

I had confidence in the things I did

and I liked that a lot

then since my dad trusted a lot

in me it starts to give me more things

chester starts to give more later

tools always when we arrived in

the street in the with the car and we saw no

I know an old computer joel violence

that you have to pick it up in famaillá and

we fill it with the car of pure

computers and and jowls and everything full of

computers did not look more like a

walking trash can

but for me that ‘s a rubbish for me

it was something something that interested me

disarm and see everything inside that

had then my dad saw that I

I had that I loved robotics

I loved electronics

so what my dad did was come

to cochabamba because we always come from

vacations and we go to cochabamba always

and in that he saw on the street a poster that

they said robotic classes my dad

He said obviously that he will love it

leo

then I bit it does is go to

that place and I signed up without telling me

nothing I came to Cochabamba and in that my

dad tells me I read mine tomorrow and I want

a place and I’m coming to the place entered

he devised robots and things that he had never

seen since I learned everything in

Internet

I never passed classes of 2008 to my twelve

years I never passed classes

rather I did was put

micondominio posters I did it myself

and it was said the poster is repaired

electric toys or remote control

and that and with that I earn some little stones

for my recreation and that for me I liked

a lot

then my dad since he saw all that is

interest that he had enrolled the

classes in the classes

I learned and programmed in ordino me in

those classes I learned more electronics

in those classes I learned things that never

I had seen things that in a day

I could honestly do a robot though

I did not know anything

I was from the morning until the afternoon

as type 9 from the morning to nine of the

night been all day in the

robotic institute all learning

and in a day or I did not know anything can

make a robot with sensors

ultrasound 20 engines one plate

Arduino

then I liked that since it was

an obstacle obstacle robot that should

take some object and then go by

another part looks for a way and in that I

are teaching my teachers to do

that for me that was an experience

unforgettable

then the rotary club santa cruz

could give a prosthesis

he gave me a prosthesis that will have

seen some images ay not that

that prosthesis

it was like to grab just silverware and

the brush and I had already given

ways to eat without the prosthesis

this is manual I have to be with

the plot is not like that but this helped me

a lot and with this my self-esteem improved

since I had I could win an object with

the prosthesis that I had never felt

that experience

Then I saw in France that a child

could be the first to receive a

mechanical prosthesis and mine is already

this

and that child who received that prosthesis

mechanics

I saw it match the company in 3d

I said what is that that is printer

3d

I did not know I just knew they were cars

to remote control

then in what he avoided the company

3d investigate

I realized that I and I have uncles in

united states and in that one of my aunts

could figure out why the foundation

who did that prosthesis call live that

that foundation

what it does is to make prostheses at a

worldwide to people with some

disability similar to mine

then imitate me to talk to them already

they sent us to take us

measures no or I had to send them

photos of thousands of lives

So they have already taken the measurements

They already brought it to me but they send them

socks are correct because it is a hand

the size of my career and it ‘s very big

in a get out with this kids up

there and but I still liked it a lot

because I already had one more way

aesthetics that that but the two

Obviously improve self-esteem

I always made jokes

ignoring the children asked me

what’s wrong with your hand

I told them look at chávez I went

Africa and a mena crocodile ate and the

children children stay seriously

and so far I meet her

children

the children tell me is true the

stories and I was not kidding I know that

are true my and and that I laugh every

They tell me all that

well then as a key and there was

in the 3d printer that could be made

prosthesis

I noticed that the institute had the

companies had the 3d printers and I

without hesitation I’m going to ask you why

we do not make a prosthesis for me if I

they can help in this and they obviously

They said clearly that we can help

from there began today a very project

great for me they taught me already

designs was was 12 years old and had

than to learn designs in programs in

sun and not be serious was a thing much

for me that what you had has given no

I understood also but it still reaches

understand in that we search I looked

designs and with my teachers what

we modified and in that we could already finish

to print my prosthesis and that time I’m going

running when we finished doing

I’m running to a market still

to buy the scratch to buy the

bolts to regulate the closing of the

prostheses and nylon threads and the

watch as it says is for ping it looks better

there is something holding it does not have

what happened , nothing falls and I always

as a child when we made the prosthesis was

my first word was that it’s not going to

benefit only me I think that the

otherwise identical thousand people are

It benefited because it would not be good for the

solution to my problem and no longer no longer

I want others to have the same

that I have

but not there we started another project

with those of the robotic institute

I told them why we do not

prosthesis for other children and

people and it’s clear that we started

make that project to make prosthesis

now we have done four prostheses

It’s not much but that’s how they start but

Now what I need is yes or yes

a 3d printer of your own because if you already

would have a 3d printer own idea

could be my prostheses the prosthesis

for the other children completely

free at no cost for those

people who have not had that idea is a

that helps those people who always

they said it was not a prosthesis

commercial costs $ 500,000

Dollars

hamas no but apparently that prosthesis

and cost up to 400 bolivianos little not

so that has inspired me a lot and

I want to tell you a motto that I always say

why do we want all this you

those in your head that is something very

important that yes you can

everything in this life can be done with effort

dedication and if you are students

of the university and they like something not what

I left because that is what you

life will change and that will make

you go ahead so I turn them

to repeat if you can and we can all and

nothing is impossible in this life

Thank you

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