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1. ‘ A new model for community
business - How 3D printing is
contributing to social innovation’
William Hoyle
techfortrade
2. About techfortrade
• UK registered charity, established in 2011
• Supporting innovation in emerging
communication technologies to facilitate
trade and alleviate poverty for the world’s
poorest communities.
• Other initiatives include
http://mfarm.co.ke
3. “Hi Phil, just been reading about
3D Printing in the Economist –
sounds amazing”
“I was wondering, what do you
think 3D Printing could do for the
developing world?”
September 21st
2011
4. Its all about High Value & Low Volume
Its all about digital data, 3D CAD, CT & MRI
Its all about personalisation and consumer trends
Its all about product efficiency and light weight
Its all about sustainable supply chains
Its all about web integration and co-creation
Its about stockless supply chains and distributed manufacturing
…….. Blah, blah, blah
“…. Let me tell you about AM/3DP”
9. Simple principle
Give people a mechanism
to apply from anywhere
Short list the best 5 or 6
ideas
Raise awareness of 3DP in
developing markets
Assign the best proposals
mentors and $1,500
Bring the finalist together
to hone their skills
Let the finalists pitch to a
panel of experts
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+ $100,000.00
to test the business case!
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11. Facilitated idea generation process
Spare Parts Water / Irrigation Personalisation
Bits & Bobs Power Healthcare
Education / skills
Dr Kamau Gachigi
12. Recycling waste into fair trade feed stock
100 Kg of sorted plastic waste = $1.00
1Kg of ABS filament = $25.00
Up lift ratio = 2,500 : 1
15. Boris Kogan (Israel) – small scale easy to manufacture 3D Printed robotic greenhouse to
increase food production
WOOF (USA) – Enabling waste plastic to be reprocessed and manufactured on large scale
3DP machines into products required in day to day sanitation (3DP toilet )
EN3D Project (Canada) – 3D Printed solar tracker to increase efficiency of sustainable
energy generation
Fripp Design & Research (UK) – 3D Printing of soft tissue prosthesis (noses, ears) for
congenital and trauma patients
Just 3D Print (India) – Recycling of waste materials into economically and sustainable
feedstock for 3D Printing community workers
Roy Ombatti (Kenya) – 3D Printed patient specific footwear for sufferers of Jigger Fly
infestation
Colalight (UK) – Community assembled cola bottle based solar lamp with parts made using
3D Printing
The short list
17. Why did they win?
25/ 02/ 2013 14:593D printing: A third- world dimension | The Economist
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Nov 3rd 2012 | Seattle |From the print edition
3D printing
A third-world dimension
A new manufacturing technique could help poor countries as well as rich ones
“Milk float” gets a
whole, new meaning
EVERY summer, Seattle holds a raft race in Green Lake, a park that is the eponymous home of the water the rafts
must cross. Entries for the Milk Carton Derby have to be made from old plastic milk bottles. The result is a
wonderfully Heath-Robinson collection of improvised craft. But this year one stood out: the entry from the
University of Washington’s engineering department actually looked like a boat. The students who built it, Matthew
Rogge, Bethany Weeks and Brandon Bowman, had shredded and melted their bottles, and then used a 3D printer to
print themselves a plastic vessel.
No doubt the Milk-Carton-Derby rules will be tightened next year—though in the end, the team came only second.
But they did come first in a competition that mattered more. On October 19th they won $100,000 in the 3D4D
Challenge, organised by a charity called techfortrade.
In this section
Reprints
• WOOF’s technology creates new
areas of employment by enabling
waste plastic to be utilized as
material for product creation
• The project team are working
with Water for Humans (WFH)
• Address local issues in water and
sanitation in Oaxaca, Mexico
18.
19. Our other finalists continue to
make progress!
six months later
Just 3D Printing
22. Joshua Pearce, Associate Professor in the Dep’t of Materials Science
& Engineering, and in the Dep’t of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, at Michigan Technological University:
‘One of our other major projects is building an open source
RecycleBot, which can turn waste plastic into 3D filament ink. This
has the potential to make it easier for waste pickers in developing
nations to recycle plastic into high-value items for sale or simply to
provide for their own needs. The use of a sustainable energy source
and recycled filament not only holds the potential to help
impoverished people but also improves the ecological performance
of 3D printing.’
‘Our goal is for people to literally “print themselves out of poverty”
no matter where they live’
The potential for BOP markets…
23. Challenges and opportunities
Building and sharing the product library
Affordability and access to equipment
Filament recycling
Off-grid printing
Sharing business models
working together as a new community!
24. We’re determined to build on our learning
Follow us on Twitter at #3d4dchallenge
Editor's Notes
A need to maintain with limited tools A desire to consume with limited infrastructure A desire to learn with limited resources Developing and hungry for technology & change
Mention, MakerBot, Grabcad & Econolyst
In other words, a community business….
In the middle of Port au Prince, nestled between the UN, the airport, and Cite Soleil–Haiti’s largest slum–groups of international development workers, volunteers, and Haitian community leaders are working on improving life in Haiti through the maker ethic. Founded immediately after the 2010 earthquake, Haiti Communitere has been on the ground for the past three years, serving as a community, networking and shared-overhead space for both international NGOs and Haitian groups. Their current focus is on developing their Resource Center, a community workshop, computer lab, and conference space that also serves as Haiti’s only makerspace. Much of the focus here is on hacking recycled materials to meet the needs of the local population. Haiti Communitere has model homes of strawbale and shipping containers, composting toilets, and extensive gardens. They have three large current projects going right now. First, Makerbot generously donated a 3D printer and local staff is getting trained on it as we speak. The first application will be printing umbilical clamps, as our partners at a local hospital have resorted to using rubber gloves as umbilical clamps. The other two projects focus on upscaling trash. Former gang members from Cite Soleil have been coming to the workshop twice a week to experiment with making benches, chairs, and art out of old tires and other trash to put in schools and public spaces around the slum. Harvey Lacey, an inventor from Texas, designed bricks made out of compressed styrofoam trash, and brought them to Haiti Communitere’s makerspace to experiment. The compressed bricks are lightweight, flexible, and a model house built from the bricks stood up to a simulated 8.2 earthquake. Groups of interested Haitians are collecting the Styrofoam that chokes Haiti’s waterways and turning it into homes and composting toilets. Most importantly, the makerspace serves as one of Port au Prince’s only safe spaces for community members to work, share ideas, and experiment with improving their lives. As community leader Robillard Louino explains: “This workshop was the reason that many young men and women in Cite Soleil woke up every morning. It gave them a purpose, a place to go, an activity that made them feel dignified.” Haiti Communitere is trying a new model of development, one based on collaboration and the maker ethic and we are asking the international maker community to help us reach our goals. The makerspaces’s yearly rent is coming up and organizers are calling for a global konbit–a traditional form of Haitian communal labor–to help keep the workshop space alive. They have launched an indiegogo campaign to raise funds and are asking the international community for support.