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University of Montana Media Arts program experiments with cutting-edge 3-D printer

When a student in the University of Montana’s Media Arts program needed a replacement button for his car’s emergency brake earlier this semester, he did what anyone from the early age of automobiles probably would have done: He fashioned a new one.

But instead of whittling it out of wood or hammering it from tin, the student turned to a distinctly modern technology. He created a three-dimensional model of the button on his computer, and then printed it – not just a picture, mind you, but the part itself – in ABS plastic.

It is a trick so new that even many of the students in UM’s cutting-edge, technology-meets-art program had never heard of it before late last semester, when UM purchased its first-ever 3-D printer, a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic.

By JOE NICKELL of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/local/um-media-arts-program-experiments-with-cutting-edge–d/article_1c5be79e-591b-11e1-a4b5-0019bb2963f4.html

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Adorable Tiny Plotter Draws Adorably Tiny Pics

Instead of being limited to only creating images on paper pulled through a sheet feeder, plotters can work on much larger canvases. And instead of costing thousands of dollars, the tiny Piccolo CNC-Bot can be yours for just $70.

Full Story: http://gizmodo.com/5885784/adorable-tiny-plotter-draws-adorably-tiny-pics?tag=diy

(Many thanks to Geoff Badenoch for passing this article along.)

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This Week in Maker Business — Obama and Young Makers http://matr.net/article-48691.html

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