Monday, May 16, 2016

How Digital Harbor Foundation’s FabSLAM tackled environmental issues

The toxic unfurling of environmental issues around Baltimore was the source material for students competing in the Digital Harbor Foundation’s FabSLAM competition this spring.

Consider the top three prizewinners in the six-week digital fabrication competition:

  • To address the Chesapeake Bay’s dwindling oyster population, Team Digital Oyster Foundation created a wetland using 3D printing.
  • Team Home Grown hatched plans to turn abandoned houses into scenes of new growth for plants, complete with solar panels and irrigation.
  • Storm drains that feed polluted water into the harbor get a filter courtesy of Team Amasek.

Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore

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