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Open Labware: 3-D Printing Your Own Lab Equipment

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See also Open-Source 3D-Printable Optics Equipment published March 2013. The article is available as an open access PDF as well:

    http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059840
    http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0059840&representation=PDF

I've seen that one before. My optics prof was planning on testing it out for the undergrad classes, where the precision was within tolerances. It was gonna free up a few grand worth of optics equipment to go into the grad level labs and the research labs. He seemed pretty pumped about it.

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