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Chris Serico TODAY

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Food and shelter are basic needs, but clean clothes can mean a renewed level of self-respect for the underprivileged.

Laundry Love, a charity based in Portland, Oregon, aims to help people who are struggling financially by partnering with local laundromats to offer free laundry services. According to Laundry Loves national director, Greg Russinger, it all began in 2002, when he and his friends offered to help a homeless man named Eric, a.k.a. T-Bone, in Ventura, California.

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In addition to providing a service, Laundry Love aims to make weekly and monthly events a social experience.

He just said, If I had clean clothes, I think people would treat me as a human being, Russinger told TODAY.com.

Russinger and fellow volunteers found a local laundromat and provided the money and supplies to wash the clothes of T-Bone and other community members in need. The Ventura branch of Laundry Love has remained active ever since.

In the years that followed, Laundry Love has provided an estimated 450,000 loads of laundry to about 300,000 people, according to Russinger. Beneficiaries include the jobless, the homeless, immigrants, victims of natural disasters and others who find themselves financially strapped.

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With the help of the Billings library TECH Center and a pair of Billings architects one of them in training, the other practicing a group of 10 Billings area teenagers learned last week how to design, render and print everyday items in three dimensions.

The items they created and printed ranged from cookie cutters to light switch covers.

I have always liked designing stuff, so I made a 3-D cookie-cutter that can slice up to 30 cookies with the flick of a wrist, said Brody Schillo, a 14-year-old Billings resident. Asked why he designed such a massive cookie-cutter one that a 3-D printer reproduced much smaller than he designed it Schillo only smiled. I hate doing just one cookie at a time, he said.

He even has a name for his creation The Cutt3r.

Nick Pancheau, an architect with Collaborative Design Architects in Billings, and Logan Hendricks, an architect in training with the firm, led the students through a weeklong course in 3-D design at the librarys TECH Center, which stands for Teen Education and Creation Hub.

3-D printing in many ways is at the forefront of technology, said Andrew Golden, an Americorps VISTA who helped establish the TECH Center, part of the librarys Learning Lab. The kids have been excited and they really caught on quick. They are enthused about using the technology.

There wasnt much hesitation, said Trevor Brooks, another Americorps VISTA. There was a lot of excitement to get in there and learn, and the teachers did a great job getting them past the learning curve. At first (students) had issues just getting anything on the screen, but now theyre making complex models.

Early on during the week, Pancheau and Hendricks took the class through SketchUp, free open-source software that architects use to design buildings and homes and others use to design various gadgets. Pancheau showed students a plastic model designed by his firm and rendered by a 3-D printer of a grain bin transformed into a house. The house was built near Great Falls, and the customer is very satisfied, he said, with whats still known as the Grain Bin House.

Its pleasing to us, he said, to have the house so similar to the image.

Pancheau makes furniture on the side, marketing it as Pare Furniture. He brought in an end table hed built, showing students the journey the piece had taken, from sketch to 3-D modeling, then 3-D rendering (generating an image from a model), 3-D printing and the actual design of the piece.

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