[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cesare Cacitti is 17 years old and comes from the province of Vicenza. Bright-eyed, alert eyes and the enthusiasm of someone his age. To look at him, Cesare is a boy like many of his peers, except that he, at only 17, is the youngest manufacturer of 3D printers.
The news was given a few days ago by the newspaper The Presswho told this extraordinary story. Born in 1999, Cesare comes from a small town in the Veneto province of Vicenza, where at the age of 13, while his schoolmates were playing football, he used to hole up at home to build and experiment.
It must not have been easy for dad and mum Cacitti to respond to the request of a child who, at just 6 years old, asked not for a video game or a toy as a Christmas present, but for a 3D printer, a very precise request that concealed a potential to be cultivated. The gift arrived, and with an English-language instruction manual to translate, but that didn't stop Cesare, who was determined to study English in order to understand how the contraption worked.
After a few years, a second request: an assembly kit to build a 3D printer, an unusual desire for many, but a natural one for little Cesare who considered that gift on a par with a Lego construction. At the age of 13, Cesare built his 3D printer and after 6 months and a lot of study and work, the first results; a cube as his first printed object, followed by a whistle. The 3D printer built by Cesare even has a name: it is called 'Zero Mileage 3D Printer', as it was assembled from found spare parts. The little inventor's work has also received praise from Smone Majocchi, a 3D printer expert, who said: "It prints very well for a fruit box.
Then, in 2014, Cesare built his second 3D printer: he called it C15, C like the initial of his name and 15 like his age. Faster and better performing, Cesare's printer soon becomes the basis for a start-up: Kais. The only member of this project is him, Cesare, who has already received financial support from a Vicenza-based company, Primo Miglio. In Cesare's plans, there is the idea of turning 3D printers into a real service for consumers. Imagine buying a pair of shoes, buying only the model to download and customise, and then using a 3D printer to produce them yourself! Lots of enthusiasm, ingenuity, desire to do and study for Cesare, who does not forget that school and family come first, who never stop supporting their child.
And then a big dream: Stanford University in California, where Caesar would like to enter after graduation. All that remains is to wish him "Ad Maiora!"
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