3D printers for peace contest: Difference between revisions

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What is the Printers for Peace Contest?

We are challenging the 3D printing community to design things that advance the cause of peace. This is an open-ended contest, but if you’d like some ideas, ask yourself what Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, or Gandhi would make if they’d had access to 3D printing.

low-cost medical devices
tools to help pull people out of poverty
designs that can reduce racial conflict
objects to improve energy efficiency or renewable energy sources to reduce wars over oil
tools that would reduce military conflict and spending while making us all safer and more secure
things that boost sustainable economic development (e.g. designs for appropriate technology in the developing world to reduce scarcity)

See:full contest details - Deadline Sept 1

For examples on Appropedia see Open source 3-D printing of OSAT

Sponsors

Michigan Tech has already saved tens of thousands of dollars using 3D printable scientific and engineering equipment. Our labs have developed 3D printable tools to test water quality, recycle waste plastic and found that 3D printing consumer goods is better for the environment than shipping them from China. The technological evolution of 3D printers, widespread Internet access, and inexpensive computing offer new opportunities for open design to enable peaceful and accelerate wealth creation for everyone.

Our goal is to facilitate an open exchange of 3-D designs of technologies that benefit humanity.

Winners

To be announced and documented Sept 4, 2013

Media Coverage

Pre-Award

An Interview With Dr. Joshua Pearce Of Printers For Peace - TechCrunch
3D Printing World Peace - 3D Printing Industry
3D Printers for Peace competition seeks ideas that 'benefit humanity'Wired UK
Inventors Challenged in 3D Printers for Peace Contest - International Business Times
Forschungswettbewerb: Drucken für den Frieden -

Spiegel Online, which is the sibling of Germany's print weekly Der Spiegel

Contest: design peaceful uses for 3D printers - Boing-Boing
Michigan Tech Sponsors A 3D Printers For Peace Contest - TechCrunch
3D Printers for Peace - CBS Detroit
Michigan Tech Launches 3D Printers for Peace Contest - MTU News, 3Ders, 3D Printer World
Rapid Ready Roundup: State Department, Printers for Peace, Food and Star Trek - Rapid Ready Tech
What would Jesus print? 3D Printers for Peace design contest responds to 3D printer gun - AL
First 3D Printers for Peace Contest - Textually

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 ==Media Coverage==
+===Pre-Award===
 * An Interview With Dr. Joshua Pearce Of Printers For Peace - [http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/19/an-interview-with-dr-joshua-pearce-of-printers-for-peace/ TechCrunch]
 * 3D Printing World Peace - [http://3dprintingindustry.com/2013/05/17/3d-printing-world-peace/ 3D Printing Industry]
+* 3D Printers for Peace competition seeks ideas that 'benefit humanity'[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/23/3d-printers-for-peace Wired UK]
+* Inventors Challenged in 3D Printers for Peace Contest - [http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/470944/20130524/3d-printers-printing-peace-university-michigan.htm International Business Times ]
+* Forschungswettbewerb: Drucken für den Frieden -
+[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/3-d-druck-fuer-den-frieden-university-of-michigan-startet-wettbewerb-a-901675.html Spiegel Online], which is the sibling of Germany's print weekly Der Spiegel
 * Contest: design peaceful uses for 3D printers - [http://boingboing.net/2013/05/22/guncontent-design-peaceful-use.html Boing-Boing]
 * Michigan Tech Sponsors A 3D Printers For Peace Contest - [http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/michigan-tech-sponsors-a-3d-printers-for-peace-contest/ TechCrunch]
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 * Michigan Tech Launches 3D Printers for Peace Contest - [http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2013/may/story89329.html MTU News], [http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130510-michigan-tech-launches-3d-printers-for-peace-contest.html 3Ders], [http://www.3dprinter-world.com/article/michigan-technological-university-announces-3d-printers-peace-contest 3D Printer World]
 * Rapid Ready Roundup: State Department, Printers for Peace, Food and Star Trek - [http://www.rapidreadytech.com/2013/05/rapid-ready-roundup-state-department-printers-for-peace-food-and-star-trek/ Rapid Ready Tech]
-* [http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/23/3d-printers-for-peace Wired UK]
-* [http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/470944/20130524/3d-printers-printing-peace-university-michigan.htm International Business Times ]
-*[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/3-d-druck-fuer-den-frieden-university-of-michigan-startet-wettbewerb-a-901675.html Spiegel Online], which is the sibling of Germany's print weekly Der Spiegel
 * What would Jesus print? 3D Printers for Peace design contest responds to 3D printer gun - [http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/05/what_would_jesus_print_3d_prin.html AL]
 * First 3D Printers for Peace Contest - [http://www.textually.org/3DPrinting/2013/05/031954.htm Textually]