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dahuman on 19 October 2013
JoeTheBro said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
JoeTheBro said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
Kasz216 said:
Seems too good to be true...

and if it gets REALLY good. Holy crap. They aren't kidding when they mention political and ethical ramifications.


If I had both more money and space i'd pitch in though.



When and if the really impressive ones hit a fair market price, it is going to kill a lot of industries. You will be able to make so many things that home, from tools, to utensils and shoes even, that many companies will go under over it.

Why pay for a crescent wrench when you can print your own. Why pay for shoes when you can print your own. Want a new case for your phone? Print one.


That revolution has already started. Have you checked out shapeways stuff recently?



Not yet but I will look. I know you can already buy printed stuff and have stuff printed for you, but I think when they are cheap enough to be in every home is when the biggest impact of them will be seen.

Here's a phone case that's only $19. That's including the designer's markup. http://www.shapeways.com/model/978430/iphone-5-5s-cover-with-moving-gears-main-body.html?li=productGroup&materialId=6

I'd say they're almost at the mass market price.

Make your own lol.
http://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=gear+case&sa=



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ListerOfSmeg on 19 October 2013
dahuman said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
Interesting idea, but I am not sure how viable it will be for a lot of things. The detail just isn't there. It looks like it will be a cool toy to play with but I don't see me making a lot of useful items with it.
Guy is pretty smart though. He came up with some pretty good ways of working around using expensive parts.
I may buy one on release for kicks but holding out for the powder based printers for the real useful items I want to make.
Last time I looked into them they were getting them close to being able to print out shoes.


The resolution is very high since it's laser based, would be nice for making certain parts using the hard resin for places that doesn't generate lots of heat for sure. I currently have a Prusa i3 and I can see myself using them for different things so it's pretty exciting for me. :D If you check their Kickstarter updates, they even have mixtures for more elastic resin and you can mix them for different hardness. They are also currently improving the design and contracted a company to make mobile apps for iOS and Android already. It's pretty cool shit. You can pretty much already print out shoes using a softer more elastic resin and just pad them if the material ends up being durable enough.

Not compared to others I have seen. It leaves ridges in everything it prints instead of being seemless

Example is this video. Look at the things they are making and how seemless they are. Also they are making things with movings parts

well I cannot get it to embed but just go to youtube and look into 3d printers. They make that one look bad but they do cost a lot more



Conegamer on 19 October 2013

Looks very, very promising.

3D Printing is an area of which we have come so far in such a short space of time. And we still have so far to go.



 

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Dr.EisDrachenJaeger on 19 October 2013

Oh hey look, another Ouya.



dahuman on 22 October 2013
ListerOfSmeg said:
dahuman said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
Interesting idea, but I am not sure how viable it will be for a lot of things. The detail just isn't there. It looks like it will be a cool toy to play with but I don't see me making a lot of useful items with it.
Guy is pretty smart though. He came up with some pretty good ways of working around using expensive parts.
I may buy one on release for kicks but holding out for the powder based printers for the real useful items I want to make.
Last time I looked into them they were getting them close to being able to print out shoes.


The resolution is very high since it's laser based, would be nice for making certain parts using the hard resin for places that doesn't generate lots of heat for sure. I currently have a Prusa i3 and I can see myself using them for different things so it's pretty exciting for me. :D If you check their Kickstarter updates, they even have mixtures for more elastic resin and you can mix them for different hardness. They are also currently improving the design and contracted a company to make mobile apps for iOS and Android already. It's pretty cool shit. You can pretty much already print out shoes using a softer more elastic resin and just pad them if the material ends up being durable enough.

Not compared to others I have seen. It leaves ridges in everything it prints instead of being seemless

Example is this video. Look at the things they are making and how seemless they are. Also they are making things with movings parts

well I cannot get it to embed but just go to youtube and look into 3d printers. They make that one look bad but they do cost a lot more

yeah I see it too, they are improving it as time goes on, it's pretty cool as you see them progress :D



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Augen on 22 October 2013
Conegamer said:
Looks very, very promising.

3D Printing is an area of which we have come so far in such a short space of time. And we still have so far to go.


It is things like this that make me laugh at how quickly we adjust to the new. A decade ago this would have been jaw dropping and a decade from now I can see people viewing it as common and unremarkable.