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.
- The Michigan Tech Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- The Michigan Tech Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Type A Machines
- MatterHackers
Winners
To be announced and documented Sept 4, 2013
Media Coverage
- An Interview With Dr. Joshua Pearce Of Printers For Peace - TechCrunch
- 3D Printing World Peace - 3D Printing Industry
- 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
- Wired UK
- International Business Times
- Spiegel Online, which is the sibling of Germany's print weekly Der Spiegel