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The Best of 2016 PINSHAPE Awards just announced.https://pinshape.com/blog/pinshape-awards-winners-announced/ Can't say that we agree with the Best Printer award - getting involved with the resin/laser systems can be EXTREMELY expensive and the potential mess involved is not something we are fans of [especially in a school environment] but that's just like, our opinion, man. Looks quite interesting for an entry-level SLA system though. And that satellite antenna is an amazing project! Anyone out there build something this ambitious? Care to share your project with us? We'd LOVE to see it.

One of our younger 3D printer users has accomplished the printing of a complete working violin, and it sounds REALLY good! Some trial, some error, and lots of learning involved, but it was all worthwhile! Congratulations Dane!http://www.tctimes.com/living/year-old-builds-working-violin-from--d-printer/article_f60aaa92-97b0-11e6-af9a-63bf2d828b0d.html

Taken from Space By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor Do you have a creative idea for a tool that astronauts could use aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? A new competition, called the ISS Design Challenge, is asking college students for creative designs for tools that space station astronauts could use in their everyday lives aboard the orbiting lab. The winning tool design will be 3D printed aboard the space station using a Made In Space printer. The competition, which is sponsored by Mouser Electronics, will be judged by former ISS Cmdr. Chris Hadfield and former "MythBusters" co-host Grant Imahara. Daily...

Taken from 3Ders By Alec All of us have struggled in one or more classes in high school, but studying the human brain is a different matter entirely. In a typical neuroanatomy class, students are overwhelmed by huge numbers of terms, definitions, brain structures (all with different sizes, shapes, and locations). It will take a long time to get to terms with all the functional and behavioral associations of the brain, and students typically forget a large amount of knowledge right after exams are passed through short-term intensive work. Surely there has to be a more efficient way to embed...

Taken from 3DPrint by Clare Scott The other day, I was talking to a friend about the arts and crafts projects we were assigned back in elementary school. It seems that some types of projects are universal – no matter where you went to school, if you’re of a certain age you probably were assigned the same kind of art projects that other kids everywhere were working on. One thing we both remember creating in grade school was “3D art” – which, in those days, involved carefully gluing crumpled bits of tissue paper onto a drawing to give it texture...