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Sharpen Your 3D Printing, Robotics, and Other Hacking Skills: The 2017 Hackaday Prize Challenge is Underway

We love Hackaday – the site has provided us with tons of cool projects that we’ve had a great time highlighting, from a coffee-maker-turned-3D-printer to a 3D printed pressure regulator for…

Winners of Make to Care Design Challenge Announced at Maker Faire Rome

We cover many design challenges at 3DPrint.com, but my favorites are those that challenge participants to invent devices that improve the day-to-day lives of people with disabilities. Sometimes, those competitions…

Make to Care: Use Your Creative Skills to Ease the Lives of People with Disabilities

Some people become makers out of a love for craft, technology and/or self-sufficiency. Others become makers out of sheer necessity – such as Fabio Gorrasi, a father of three whose…