University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
MakerGirl 3D Printing and Technology Organization On Track to Impact 10,000 Young Girls By 2023
While there are plenty of initiatives around the world aimed at getting girls and young women interested in and comfortable using STEAM technology like 3D printing, coding, and robotics, I think…
Researchers Use 3D Printed End Plates and Paper Origami Mechanisms to Create Flexible, Inching Robots
A team of students and professors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been working on innovative research that illustrates how they used bio-inspired design and origami structures to…
Students Use 3D Printing to Create Biologically-Based Robots from Living Tissue
At the University of California Merced, the students in Professor Kara McCloskey’s class are building robots. That’s pretty neat, you may think, but not at all unusual – even elementary…
MakerGirl: Piquing Rural Girls’ Interest in 3D Printing
While the integration of 3D printing technology has changed the face of ‘shop class’, the sex based disparity in those using the new shop equipment remains the same. As a result there…
3D Printed Gloves for Wheelchair Racing Introduce Student to Making
Arielle Rausin, a junior in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is enrolled in the Digital Making course with Dr. Vishal Sachdev. The assignment for the course was fairly…
3D Printed “Tact” Prosthetic Hand Takes Functionality to a New Level
The 3D printing and maker community has demonstrated over and over again just how capable it is of making the world a better place and improving the quality of life…
