Designing a Medical 3D Printer For the NASA’s Mars Mission
Not ones to shy away from a mission, the team at NASA have launched another 3D printing challenge, this time one that’s aimed at K-12 students. It’s a bid to attract more interest in the missions to Mars and get the young involved and prepared for what is to come.
Not ones to shy away from a mission, the team at NASA have launched another 3D printing challenge, this time one that’s aimed at K-12 students. It’s a bid to attract more interest in the missions to Mars and get the young involved and prepared for what is to come. The challenge will focus on developing medical technology that can be used during a Mars mission.
This isn’t the first time NASA opened a public competition of this sort (i.e. to generate new technology ideas) and has proved quite successful in past ventures including generating ideas for a 3D printable Mars habitat. But this time is being aimed at the younger, more impressionable folk (K-12). The challenge for the youngsters is to come up with a 3D model of something that could be used by the astronaut to help with their physical well being while on a three-year mission to Mars. The designed device could be to help with diagnosing health problems, preventing them, emergency first-aid, surgical, or dental procedures. Either way, it will ensure that astronauts are protected as much as possible while out exploring the Red Planet.
The challenge went underway on October 26 this year and the closing date for entries to be submitted is January 25, 2017. Once all entrants have been explored, the winner(s) will be announced on March 28, 2017. So, if you have some great ideas burning then why not go ahead, take a look and enter the competition yourself. You never know, you may just win it!
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Owen Castellanos
Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.
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