WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: 3D printers for braille and maps

for

From: Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7500)
Date: Feb 28, 2013 9:08AM

Here at NASA, rapid prototyping was used a few years back to create a tactile representation of some of the Martian surface, which I thought was very well done.

A couple weekends back, I got to meet someone who has a 3D printer. He did a digital scan of me, and in about 2 hours the printer had finished creating a great 3D image of me. It's the first time in 30 years that I was able to reall know what I "look" like. That took two hours. I'm not sure how long it would take to make a map though. The possibilities are endless though.

Courtney