article_snippet: (CNN)By the time Cynthia Falardeau read about Alex Pring, a little boy who got a battery-powered robotic arm last summer, Cynthia Falardeau had made peace with Cynthia Falardeau son Wyatt's limb difference.
article_snippet: So when a friend shared a story from the "Today Show" with Wyatt in mind, about a team of University of Central Florida (UCF) students and graduates that made an electronic arm for 6-year-old Pring using a three-dimensional printer on campus, Cynthia Falardeau was defensive.
article_snippet: He got involved with E-Nable and met Alex, a local boy teased because of He missing arm, and set about designing a robotic replacement.
article_snippet: Alex, a local boy teased because of his missing arm gave a robotic replacement to Alex for free.
article_snippet: For Christmas, "Blue Man Group upgraded Alex's plain vanilla white arm to a new one resembling Optimus Prime from "Transformers.
article_snippet: Wyatt expects to get fitted with Alex's plain vanilla white arm later this month.