Unplugged: 3D Printing Goes Solar
Michigan Tech researchers create two mobile open-source solar-powered 3D Printers for distributed manufacturing in off-grid communities
3D printing guru Joshua Pearce wants nothing more than to provide the means of production to everyone, especially people in developing regions who must get by on very little. But there has been a drawback. 3D printers make all manner of fun and useful things, but they do require electricity. And the grid is notoriously unreliable in many parts of the world. “What do you do if the power goes out while you are right in the middle of printing something?” says Pearce, an associate professor at Michigan Technological University.
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