With 3D Printing, Blind Mom-to-be ‘sees’ baby’s ultrasound for the first time

30-year-old mom Tatiana Guerra, who has been blind since 17, has always depended with others’ vision to describe her unborn baby’s appearance. Thanks to the 3D printing technology, she can now touch her baby’s face based from the ultrasound results.

Tatiana’s doctor surprised her with a 3D printed version of her baby’s ultrasound, making her capable to “see” how her unborn child’s on his 20-week-old state looks like.

Huggies Brazil documented the event and uploaded it in YouTube. Here’s the emotional video:

My initial thoughts on the new AURORA from Eastmachinery

I have to say that i'm extremely impressed with this printer. Its all metal construction is what grabs you once you first look at this unit. Its built strong, powdered coated steel.

There are surprisingly a lot of attention to detail as you will see in the attached photos. It has optical end stops, high quality rails, dedicated PLA blower fan, manual override switches on the front panel for LCD and FAN, SD reader for untethered printing.

Everything is metal - Including the heated BED, and bed support brackets which is a nice change. Even makerbot was plastic!

There are also really neat mechanisms in place to tighten your belts for really nice prints. Simply loosen two screws - pull tight as you can and then do it up again.

The LCD is large and clear - 3" i believe and is beveled nicely into the front panel. To the right of the LCD is an aircraft grade large aluminium knob.

The stepper motors are black so they hide away nicely,

Everything about this printer screams quality. At the US $785.00 price tag, you simply don't expect this level of detail and quality.

If i had to describe this printer to someone, i'd say its as if ultimaker and makerbot had a love child - its got the best of both worlds.

My ONLY complaint so far is that it is a little on the noisy side compared to my v slot extrusion rep-raps - but really thats not a big deal. It appears to be made for commercial/industrial markets which is why the quality is high.

Also the build area is huge! 300x200x200 (12" x 8")

If you're after a printer that is built like a tank, prints super fine details at crazy fast speeds I highly recommend you consider this unit.

So far i'm loving it! I should also mention that it takes GCODE and runs MARLIN unlike some other makerbot style units - so it works out of the box with CURA, SLIC3R and Simplify 3d. I've got this currently wireless using OCTOPRINT. No funky proprietary software lock in here.

What we liked
Fast print times
Large build volume
Heated bed
All metal
Attention to detail

What we didn't like
A little noisy at 75dB

We are grateful to Mr. Martin to share with us the product evaluation, very detailed and professional.

For more information:
http://www.eastmachinery.com/product/9638.html

There are more videos and photos on the way so stay tuned! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_dao-TqEn4