Lyman filament extruder
3-D printers like the RepRap. It is named after its developer Hugh Lyman and was the winner of the Desktop Factory Competition.[1]
The goal in the competition was to build an
CC BY-SA 3.0
) license.
The use of
RecycleBots. Producing plastic filament from recycled plastic has a significant positive environmental impact.[3]
References
- ^ Harry McCracken (March 4, 2013). "How an 83-Year-Old Inventor Beat the High Cost of 3D Printing". Time.
- ^ Christian Baechler, Matthew DeVuono, and Joshua M. Pearce, “Distributed Recycling of Waste Polymer into RepRap Feedstock” Rapid Prototyping Journal, 19(2), pp. 118-125 (2013). open access
- life-cycle analysis