RecycleBot Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:43:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Using Recycled Milk Jugs for Filament Lowers the Cost of 3D Printers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycled-milk-jugs-lower-the-cost-of-3d-printers-20130306/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycled-milk-jugs-lower-the-cost-of-3d-printers-20130306/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:43:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=34491 Joshua Pearce, a Michigan Technological University professor, is working on a way to recycle items and use the raw materials to create anything – golf tees, a garlic press, even children’s’ toys. Pearce’s tool of choice is an open-source 3D printer. He uses free software downloaded from Thingiverse, which currently holds 54,000 open-source designs. 3D […]

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