Some graduate students from Stanford University have used Autodesk Inventor software to create a prototype for a recyclable laptop reports Electronics News
The students from Stanford and Finland’s Aalto University used Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor Publisher software to help develop and refine the innovative laptop during the school year.
The software was used create 3D digital prototypes of the hardware components inside the laptop, aiding in creating a readily accessible laptop design that is also easy to disassemble.
The Bloom laptop is designed to separate into different materials such as plastics, metals and circuitry. This is in contrast with most commercially laptops which take about 45 minutes to disassemble, requiring three separate tools and as many as 120 steps.
For their work, the class of graduate students was named Autodesk Inventor of the Month for October 2010.
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