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• $150 3D-printed prosthetic hand changes one young boy’s life

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  By Stephan Lourens
  02.06.13 | No Comments
  Rich Van As, a South African carpenter had a horrific accident, chopping off four fingers in a workshop related incident. On the other end of the scale was a South African boy named Liam, who was born without fingers on his right hand. Throw in Ian Owen, a mechanical special effects artist from Bellingham, Washington, and you get a 3D printed mechanical hand for about US$150 that has changed the boy’s life. After Van As decided to find a way to ...

  Topics: 3d printing, robotics, robots

• Brother MFC review: an innovative A3 printer

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  By Ian Osborne
  12.04.12 | 1 Comment
  This new multifunction printer has a twist. Specifically, it has a 90-degree twist. Instead of feeding the paper through the printer in portrait mode, with the short edge emerging first, the Brother MFC-J4510DW turns it sideways so it prints in landscape orientation. This offers several advantages over the more traditional setup. It can print on A3-sized (11 x 17-inch) paper by taking the page through the printer short end first. A3 pages have to be hand-fed, one at a time through ...

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