Edmonton teens use 3D printer to build toys with recycled materials

A brace of Edmonton precocious schoolhouse students are making toys utilizing a 3D printer.

Saras Agrawal and Rateb Ajamieh founded Prints4Play, which provides 3D printed toys to organizations crossed the metropolis for free.

“The extremity was to really link the thought of 3D printing with the quality to donate toys, but determination was this spread of sustainability,” Agrawal said.

The teens recycle each of the University of Alberta’s 3D printed discarded into usable 3D filament.

“We built our ain instrumentality fundamentally implicit a mates of months that melts that worldly down past re-extrudes it — makes it into a bully bladed enactment of worldly that tin beryllium fed backmost into a printer,” Agrawal explained.

The students person made astir 1,000 toys truthful acold and volition apt treble that by the extremity of the year. They person adjacent had planetary orders.

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“We privation to truly beryllium beacons of innovation. We privation to amusement others this is thing we tin bash arsenic students,” Ajamieh said.

They anticipation to support expanding Prints4Play’s reach.

“Wanting to assistance the assemblage successful a clump of antithetic ways, not conscionable socially, but besides environmentally arsenic well,” Agrawal said.

Watch the video astatine the apical of this communicative to spot a artifact being printed.