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Turtle gets a shell wound in 3D (VIDEO)



The possibilities of 3D printing technology are simply amazing. Every so often find news about their overwhelming potential and is the best there is still much ground to explore. In this section we already share with you the emotional moment when a girl tried his arm 3D printed, but today we want to show you that not only people can benefit from this class of devices. animals too; for example, a wound turtle.

Blog Distractify us about the misfortune of Freddy a quelonio who miraculously survived a terrible fire in the Brazilian Amazon. The rescue team found that estimates had to spend about month and a half without food because of the damage suffered. The fire destroyed 85% of its shell and exposed her wounded skin, so scientists decided to name the name of the protagonist of the film series 'Nightmare on Elm Street'.

To meet Freddy, the graphic designer Cicero Moraes and colleagues set out to return a look as close as possible to the original. After painstaking research, analyzing nothing less than 40 samples, this team called 'Animal Avengers managed to draw a sketch of printable 3D shell. Four pieces had to fit between them so that the turtle could return to take her home in tow, like other animals of the same species.


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