Joshua Pearce’s Sustainability and Accessibility Lab at Michigan Tech has made even more progress towards democratizing technological access by creating an open-source 3D metal printer. The lab has put out a report titled “Low-Cost Open-Source 3D Metal Printing”, available on Academia.edu, that instructs readers on how to build their own 3D steel printer for just over $1,000. As the report points out, “the applications of commercialized metal 3D printers are limited to only rapid prototyping and expensive finished products.…
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