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From Buzzfeed Stephanie McNeal BuzzFeed News Reporter Amos Dudley had a predicament. He hated his crooked teeth and needed braces, but was a “broke” college student. So, he turned to technology and 3D-printed his own braces. CNN Money / Via money.cnn.com amosdudley.com   According to his blog, Dudley is a 24-year-old digital design student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He told CNN Money that he had braces in junior high, but stopped wearing his retainers. His teeth became crooked, and he said he realized last year he had stopped smiling because he was self-conscious about his teeth. “I...

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From 3DPrint.com by Debra Thimmesch | Mar 9, 2016 Danish expat, Washington, D.C.-area resident, and maker Mathias Hansen put his many tech-related skills to work in the interest of making learning the alphabet more fun for young Montessori school students. Montessori schools are all about hands-on learning. Hansen, an accomplished software engineer at VideoBlocks, an online company that provides creative content–graphics, video, and audio–at affordable prices, recently fielded a question about how to revitalize an old hands-on alphabet set. Hansen recalled the initial engagement: “I got an interesting question from a Montessori school recently. They had this material that consisted of...

From the MakerBot Blog.   POSTED BY JESSICA ADAMS ON FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Create your own luck this St. Patrick’s Day with MakerBot! Celebrate by making 3D-printed charms that embody the true spirit of holiday cheer. We’ve compiled a quick list of four St. Patrick’s Day facts to help you decide which prints are most suited for your celebration. Learn more about St. Patrick’s Day and how you can enjoy this exciting time with these holiday-themed 3D prints.   Tradition with a Twist Did you know that St. Patrick wasn’t actually from Ireland? He was originally born in the UK....

From Technical.ly Philly By Juliana Reyes / REPORTER Louise Driggers was not pleased when she found out that an eBay shop was selling, among other things, a 3D-printed dragon based off her design — a design she had posted on Thingiverse, free for anyone to use, so long as they didn’t commercialize it. So Driggers, a Richmond, Texas-based artist who goes by Loubie on Thingiverse, posted a 3D-printed sad face on the platform to express her displeasure, TechCrunch reported. Then, the comments poured in. (Seven hundred and counting.) Blogs and news outlets caught on. MakerBot, which owns Thingiverse, posted a response yesterday. Read the balance...