New TrussFab software uses 3D printing to make boats, furniture & buildings out of plastic bottles

“Researchers at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany have created TrussFab, a new piece of software that turns digital 3D models into structures made from ordinary plastic bottles and 3D printed trusses. Plastic bottles are everywhere. You’ll find them in the supermarket, in your fridge, and probably in your own hands at some point this week. But bottles can also be found in places where they really don’t belong: in landfills, in the gutters of dirty streets, and even in the ocean…”

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http://www.3ders.org/articles/20170425-new-trussfab-software-uses-3d-printing-to-make-boats-furniture-and-buildings-out-of-plastic-bottles.html