One-of-a-kind green fabricators by industrial design students

http://blog.ponoko.com/2008/06/26/vuw-students-create-3d-printers/

Link: Ponoko Blog.

Last week the 3rd year Industrial Design students at Victoria University presented the prototypes of the 3D printers they had designed. The challenge was to design and make a “green” 3D printer in 4 weeks with a limited budget. The students innovative thinking looked at ways to make use of waste material and repurpose it into new objects.

‘Stack’ used the waste paper from generated by a bank and a ’steampunk’ sewing machine to create layered forms based on an interpretation of the bank's statistical data....

(((Man, those are wack.)))