Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment
By T. Baden, A. M. Chagas, Greg Gage, T. Marzullo, Lucia L. Prieto-Godino, Thomas Euler. PLoS Biology, 2015
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The introduction of affordable, consumer-oriented 3-D printers is a milestone in the current “maker movement,” which has been heralded as the next industrial revolution. Combined with free and open sharing of detailed design blueprints and accessible development tools, rapid prototypes of complex products can now be assembled in one’s own garage—a game-changer reminiscent of the early days of personal computing. At the same time, 3-D printing has also allowed the scientific and engineering community to build the “little things” that help a lab get up and running much faster and easier than ever before.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- Surface Modification of 3D Printed PLA Objects by Fused Deposition Modeling: A Review (2019, background): “Extrusion-based printing techniques where PLA is used as raw material are widely used in teaching aids [109], construction of laboratory equipment [110], agricultural instruments [111] and surgical equipment [112].”
- Conservation technology: The next generation (2018, background): “…design their own technological solutions, such as TReND4 (Teaching and Research in Natural Sciences for Development) and their Open Labware project (Baden et al., 2015); ExCiteS5 (Extreme Citizen Science); and Sapelli6—an opensource project creating a mobile data collection and sharing platform…”
- Invited review article: Where and how 3D printing is used in teaching and education (2019, background): “It is recommended that similar education‐focused 3D print exchanges be created to lower the barriers to integrating 3DP into teaching, avoid the duplication of effort in modelling, and reduce the cost of creating assistive technologies and labware [325,327].”