Top 5 Videos: 3D Printing With Coffee

As the sun sets on another week of September living, we gather together a selection of handpicked videos for your viewing pleasure. Like a digital vineyard, we roam the hills and valleys of the internet to bring you the most fresh and interesting stories that grace the video format. So pull your chair closer, set your wine glass to the side and save your coffee beans as we offer you 3D printed solutions to modify your drinking cups, print Velcro, revitalize an old hobby, and catch up with a buster of myths in this top 5 videos of the week.

Using Coffee Grounds as a Biodegradable 3D Printing Material

In our first video, we join Michael Rivera, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder as he looks for ways to reuse one of the most common waste products in our caffeinated world – coffee grounds. Rather than tossing out the remaining bean grounds after brewing a pot of liquid gold, Rivera and other university researchers have created a novel 3D printing material that is compostable, reusable, and I can only assume, smells pretty good too. Watch the video and listen to Rivera’s own justifications for making a world where we waste less and use more!

Velcro You Can Make at Home

Who doesn’t like Velcro? It holds things together, it’s easy to use and it’s satisfying to pull apart. Now exciting could it be to save yourself a trip and print Velcro at home? Well, now you can! In this video by Teaching Tech, we get to walk through the entire process of the home Velcro production discussion, from looking at the science behind Velcro, choosing the right materials, and even testing its holding strength. To add a cherry on top, you can even find STL files linked in the description so that you can get printing as soon as you’re finished watching.