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Design and Produce 3D Printed, Custom Breast Prosthetics
As the market for 3D printers has moved from sophisticated, experienced designers into the mass consumer market, individuals are saving substantial money with pre-designed, DIY products made on 3D printers. These opportunities are poised to increase due to the Free Open Source 3D Customizer, a libre, 3D model customizer that anyone can use to create their own 3D printed designs. To demonstrate how the software works and the possibilities that it creates, I'll show how breast cancer survivors and others can use the Free Open Source 3D Customizer to design and produce 3D-printable external breast prosthetics.
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FarmBot: An Open Source 3D Farming Printer That Aims To Create Food For Everyone
...Perhaps the printers which have the most intriguing uses are those which can print food. These printers, which are still only in the early stages of development, allow those with minimal food preparation experience to print out meals using specially designed software...
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Harvard’s 3D-Printing Archaeologists Fix Ancient Artifacts
Indiana Jones practiced archaeology with a bull whip and fedora. Joseph Greene and Adam Aja are using another unlikely tool — a 3-D printer. Read More »
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How 3D Printing Will Rebuild Reality
When Star Trek debuted in the mid-60s, everybody geeked out about the food synthesizers. [...] Years later, I wasn’t the only one craving the replicators of Star Trek:The Next Generation for my home workshop... Read More »
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How A $100 3D-Printed Arm Is Saving The Children Of Sudan
A company called Not Impossible Labs has come up with one of the best uses for 3D printer technology we've ever heard of: printing low-cost prosthetic arms for people, mainly children, who have lost limbs in the war-torn country of Sudan. Read More »
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How A 3D printer Gave A Teenage Bomb Victim A New Arm – And A Reason To Live
When Mick Ebeling read about a boy in South Sudan who had lost his arms, he set off with a 3D printer to make him a prosthetic limb. Now the project is bringing hope to the country's other 50,000-plus amputees Read More »
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How a TIME Article Led To The Invention Of A $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb
That’s the bleak conclusion to a bleak TIME story by Alex Perry from April 2012. It concerns Daniel Omar, a Sudanese 14-year-old who had his hands blown off by a bomb dropped by the Sudanese government in an attack on rebel forces. [...] Remarkably, though, the story went on to become much, much happier — and yes, it’s one that makes sense to be told here in TIME.com’s tech section. Read More »
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Industrial Revolution Unravels, Collaborative Economy Rises Says Jeremiah Owyang
Just about anyone who works at analyzing social media knows the name Jeremiah Owyang. He was, after all, one of the first to accurately predict social media would take the world by storm--a contrarian view back in the day when nearly everyone was convinced social media was only a fad. Now he's predicting that the industrial revolution is about to completely unravel and be replaced by a new collaborative economy... Read More »
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Initial CES 2015 Observations
Yesterday was the start of the International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2015 conference in Las Vegas...
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Intel Says Open Source 3D Printed Robots Are Coming
SAN FRANCISCO: 3D PRINTED, OPEN SOURCE ROBOTS that are going to bridge the gap between technology and humanity are on their way, according to Intel, which talked about its Twenty-first Century Robot initiative that will "bring science fact to science fiction". Read More »
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Join EFF’s Efforts To Keep 3D Printing Open
Thanks to the open hardware community, you can now have a 3D printer in your home for just a few hundred dollars [...]. This incredible innovation is possible because the core patents covering 3D printing technologies started expiring several years ago, allowing projects such as RepRap to prove what we already knew—that openness often outperforms the patent system at spurring innovation. Read More »
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Kickstarting An Open Source Hardware "Machine Shop In A Box" - 3D Printer/Etcher/Mill
"How do you improve upon 3D printers with multiple color heads? Members of the makerspace Artisan's Asylum have built what they're calling a 'microfactory' - a self-contained machine that etches circuitry, mills, and 3d-prints multi-color objects. Their kickstarter is only a week in, but they're going to need a lot of help if they're going to reach their very ambitious goal." Read More »
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Lebanon Should Not Miss Out On The Next Big Technological Advance: Mechatronics
...Currently, the field of automation and robotics is experiencing rapid developments due to the accelerated progress of artificial intelligence, computer vision, micromanufacturing and rapid prototyping. This means that complex and intelligent machines will start replacing some jobs, while also providing convenience and personal assistance...
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Maker Machine Sends Open Source Robots To School
Maker Machine is a mobile makerspace that brings 3D printers, DIY robotics, and interactive art to primary schools, libraries, museums and youth clubs. The project is currently fundraising for a tour of Australia to bring our workshop to schools around the country. Read More »
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Making It Real With 3D Printing
With a 3D printer that costs less than $3,000, you can start your own mini manufacturing operation -- and use open source software to create surprisingly complex designs Read More »
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