15 students from the Rome-based Massimiliano Massimo Institute have teamed up with 20 volunteers and 69 additional students from the local “Making 3D Printers” class to launch a crowdfunding campaign to provide 3D printing technology to two hospitals in Africa. Together, the 15 students and their collaborators have launched the Crowd4Africa campaign on the Italian…
One of the noblest uses of knowledge and especially the open source one is the willingness to apply it for a distributed social benefit, like in this case: Most able-bodied people don’t really understand exactly how expensive it is to be disabled in a world built for people who are not. I have heard several…
Although we’ve seen how much of an impact 3D printed prosthetic devices can have from both a design customization standpoint as well as cost, we’re still yet to see just how much of an impact a 3D printed ‘smart’ prosthetic may have as we move into a new generation of connected devices. While we’ve previously…
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