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Caroline Karbowski

Caroline Karbowski

Founder and CEO of See3D, a nonprofit that 3D prints tactile models shipped free to blind and low-vision people worldwide; also an Orientation & Mobility Specialist at Perkins School for the Blind and Certified Braille Transcriber.

Aug 21, 2026

7:38
Tell us a little bit about the workflows and the passion driving that.
7:43
Yes.
7:43
So C3D, you know, mainly is the community of volunteers around the world, designing and printing models for requests that we get.
7:52
And when it started out, it was just me printing models, then some of my friends printing models.
7:57
And we've had more and more people that want to help out, including a lot of blind model recipients, right? And at first, you know, the only people who could really contribute were people that had some vision because a lot of the printers weren't accessible.
8:13
And there were ways that, you know, you could do things, but it wasn't at the same level as what sighted people can do.
8:20
And so from the very start, when we did the 3D printing club at Ohio State School for the Blind, We were advocating with the 3D printing companies that we were using on labeling their buttons for the slicers, for changing things on the menus.

10 MINS LATER

18:04
What were you thinking as, you know, we, you know, you were kind of reviewing the issues and what you had in front of you.

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