3D printed Colorado buttons.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF SMALL biz

"I'm a Colorado native and I wanted to do something to give back," says Debra Wilcox, co-founder of the 3D Printing Store in Denver. Her vehicle: a 3D-printed button that incorporates the Colorado flag and mountains into one distinctive bit of flair. Wilcox--who launched the 3D Printing Store with Kenton Kuhn in 2012--gives a portion of each sale to Parkinson's Disease research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. They're taking off, gracing the lapels of notables like Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. They continually sell out, so they keep printing more--demonstrating the power of 3D...