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When it comes to 3D printing, the headlines we most often see relate to groundbreaking discoveries or larger-than-life projects led by industry heavyweights. However, what’s going on at ground level with desktop 3D printers is just as, if not more important in terms of how this open-source, community-driven ...

While regular people can already let their imaginations run wild through the power of 3D printing technology, surely the people who can most strongly benefit it must be the blind and the visually impaired. As group of people who can only read books with their hands, it’s no wonder that several people have already started 3D printing educational objects for blind children so they can learn everything their classmates can. Remember this concerned father and his blind daughter?

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Among all of the recent developments in 3D printing, few are perhaps as exciting as the developments that have been made to allow astronauts the ability to manufacture their own parts, tools and other physical objects while on space missions.
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