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3D printer for kids

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According to Mashable, “a Toy Box-3D printer so that kids can create their dream toys with the touch of a single button. It’s designed to be safe, includes non-toxic and biodegradable printer food in a variety of colors, and requires zero adult assistance. It comes as no surprise that Kevin O’Leary threw $150K at this idea on Shark Tank.”

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3-D printing with Cellulose

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According to John Hart and Sebastian Pattinson, a former postdoc in mechanical engineering who is now a lecturer at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., “demonstrated a technique using the world’s most abundant natural polymer-cellulose. at MIT,” says early education on 3-D printing is the key to helping the technology expand as an industry. They are very much enjoyed creating and teaching the course and they are proud of what the students did, and what it means about the future potential of additive manufacturing.
Cellulose offers many advantages over current plastics-based feedstocks: It’s inexpensive, renewable, biodegradable, mechanically robust, and chemically versatile. In addition, it’s widely used in pharmaceuticals, packaging, clothing, and a variety of other products, many of which could be customized using 3-D printing”.

 

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