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Grooming Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs
Kids as young as 9 to 12 were enrolled in a unique kids Business skills program in Melbourne recently. The program called "Lemonade Stand" if giving primary school entrepreneurs a head start by learning basic business skills, web design, 3D Printing Prototypes and mobile app development at a course run by innovation consultants Collective Campus. We spoke to Co-Founder Steve Glaveski said his two-day program helped children understand how to take small risks and learn by their failures. "If you think about kids' businesses, it's always about a couple of five or six year olds on the footpath selling homemade lemonade," he...
Preventative Blindness with a 3D printed Eye Examination Kit
A New Zealand doctor, Dr Hong, has developed a low cost eye examination kit using the Ultimaker 3D Printer. Dr Hong believes sight is one of the most important sensory perceptions, as it is one of those senses that once you lose it, its going to affect your independence, you work , your confidence and self esteem. Dr Hong founded oDocs Eye Care, a group that has developed an open source medical equipment that have been printed on an Ultimaker for Eye diagnoses. Using the Ultimaker 2+, Dr Hong created a smart phone retinal imaging adapter and anterior...
3D Printed Violin on an Ultimaker 2
image copyright of hovalin.com Earlier this year we came across an amazing project created by a talented Husband and Wife duo, Kaitlyn and Matt Hov. The two of them started the Hovalin Project, an Open-Source 3D Printed Violin. You can learn more about the project by visiting their website at Hovalin.com The hovalin is a functional acoustic violin that can be produced using most standard consumer 3d printers. The total cost of raw materials for the violin (4/4) is currently about $70. The hovalin was designed with Autodesk Fusion 360. Its shape and dimensions are inspired by the Stradivarius violin...
Siemens and Ultimaker
Siemens has always been synonymous with innovation whose Research & Development is in their life blood. Annually Siemens invest over 6 billion dollars in their Research & Development. Jamie McDyre, Head of Freight and Products – ASEAN Pacific, Mobility says “Siemens is moving away from just looking at the factory floor, into considering the whole value chain now, and what that allows us to do, using 3D printing etc, it allow us to bring that process to our customers, and bring them into our design processes early on.” 3D printing allows Siemens to get their customers involved by bringing...
Sweco Architects shares their Architectural design process
One such inspiring story is that of Henrik Bejmar, an architect working for Sweco, the largest architectural and engineering consultancy firm in Europe. Headquartered in the beautiful city of Stockholm, he’s helping a team of architects create a monumental new development in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The project contains over 280 hectares, which will hold over 60.000 to 90.000 apartments and 200.000 office spaces once finished. To help bring their ideas to life they needed a rapid prototyping tool they could rely on every day to create models with tight deadlines. So they turned to 3D printing and started using the...