The average 3D printer has a footprint of about 90 square centimetres. So it’s not too crazy to use the word “huge” when describing the one being built by a team of students at the University of Regina.
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“I’d say it’s one of the largest in western Canada as far as we’re aware,” said U of R engineering student Wil Norton. “The 3D printer that we’re building that has a range of three metres by three metres by one metre in height.”
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It will be a comparatively massive piece of equipment, but then again, going big seems fitting when reaching for the stars . Norton is part of the multi-disciplinary team of students making up Celestial Labs — a campus club with a focus on space design and engineering. It seems the group also has a knack for those disciplines — they created the winning design for the first […]
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