Smart, crowdfunded 3D printing projects

by Charlie Osborne  |  November 22, 2012  |  Image 6 of 7

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MakerBot – 3D Printing in a Baltimore HS Engineering Class

It isn't just commercial industries that have an interest in 3D printing -- as a school in Baltimore wants to fund a 3D printer for a high school classroom.

High school engineering teacher Weston Schreiber began the crowdfunding campaign, in the hopes of securing enough funding to buy a 3D printer in order to "inspire" students at the Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences to pursue a technology or engineering career.

The project's Kickstarter campaign managed to secure $3,146 based on a $2,000 goal.

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3-D printing is in its infancy, but it is growing and gathering interest. I don't think that it will ever be possible to use a 3-D printer to print something complicated like a transister radio; I would be happy to be wrong. 3-D printing is good for prototyping and making hard to find parts. The 7 examples in the article show that there is an interest in building inexpensive and more capable 3-d printers.
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