‘Printed Boat’ Places Second in Novelty Race
26th July 2012
A student club from the University of Washington has not only used 3D printing to build a boat – it’s taken the boat to second place in the university’s annual Milk Carton Derby at Seattle’s Green Lake.
Even better than that: the 3D printer had to be set up to use HDPE – milk carton plastic – to print the boat, a material which mechanical engineering professor Mark Ganter says is “horrible … it shrinks, it curls, it doesn’t want to stick to itself”.
We have the technology.
July 26th, 2012 at 10:29
Minor thing: Milk containers are usually low density polyethylene.