How durable is 3D-printer material? Something like that brain-gear toy would be cool to show off, but it wouldn't be worth anything if the pieces snapped off while you were turning it.
[QUOTE=pogothemunty;29707591]RepRap[/QUOTE]
I think I just found my new summer project.
What if you print out a flat plane?
[quote=Checkers]Now we can torrent hardware [/quote]
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[QUOTE=ClockworkArcana;29712631][img_thumb]http://i56.tinypic.com/16iy7gx.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
That's exactly what I said when I first heard about 3D printers!
I said to someone "They always tell you you wouldn't download a car, but in the future, you can download 3d models of cars from thepiratebay and print them in 3D"
There's another company that makes 3d printers called Makerbot.
[url=http://store.makerbot.com/cupcake-cnc-ultimate.html]They have small scale one for 700 bucks[/url]
[img_thumb]http://store.makerbot.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/u/l/ultimate_text.jpg[/img_thumb]
[url=http://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-thing-o-matic.html]and a full size one for 1,200[/url]
[img_thumb]http://store.makerbot.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/t/h/thing-o-matic_product_800.jpg[/img_thumb]
. They use mainly use ABS plastic and, if you get a certain head, you can use frosting or peanut butter or similar stuff.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdXtkIpiotI&feature=player_detailpage[/media]
[url=http://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-3d-scanner.htmlhttp://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-3d-scanner.html]they also have a 3D scanner for 50 bucks. although you need a camera [/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8XJUqHXgls&feature=player_detailpage[/media]
it can also make music too , apparently
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDZLwaDzys&feature=player_detailpage#t=29s[/media]
First thought:
[img]http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/9116/702203-hate_it_large.jpg[/img]
I'd love to have one of those fancy 3D printers. I'd make action figures of stuff. TF2 characters, Portal 2 characters, the works.
I do a bit of sculpting in zbrush, none of which is worthy of a print, but I imagine a 3D printer would be a great investment for me once/if I'm able to sculpt something a tad more impressive.
Oh if I had one of these babies I would print paper. 3D PAPER!
i want a 3d printer that can take some base materials and build *all* the parts for a new one. i know reprap can almost do it, but it still needs some more stufff.
[QUOTE=dgg;29716578]Oh if I had one of these babies I would print paper. 3D PAPER![/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.rapidtoday.com/mcor.html[/url]
sorta backwards of your request
you forgot laminated object manufacturing, which is printing with stacked sheets of paper. I know architecture stuff uses it, and one company planned to make one that uses standard 8.5x11 paper
Is the stuff biodegradable?
I would make so many prop guns with this
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;29707680]We need, not to have 3D printers print a 3D printer, but to do that at least ten times and get child 3D printers that are still viable and connect -- Free of errors -- to a computer.
Because wouldn't that be fucking awesome?[/QUOTE]
That'd be almost like evolution in a way.
Also, current 3d printers seem kinda like microtech, just beneath nanotech. Just imagine nanotech printers, picotech printers, or even femtotech printers! These techs could have sooo many applications.
We've got a few of these in the computer labs and shops at my Highschool.
[QUOTE=ironman17;29722276]That'd be almost like evolution in a way.
Also, current 3d printers seem kinda like microtech, just beneath nanotech. Just imagine nanotech printers, picotech printers, or even femtotech printers! These techs could have sooo many applications.[/QUOTE]
A microtech printer that could print nanotech printers.
That nanotech printer could print picotech
and so on.
where does it end?
[QUOTE=ironman17;29722276]That'd be almost like evolution in a way.
Also, current 3d printers seem kinda like microtech, just beneath nanotech. Just imagine nanotech printers, picotech printers, or even femtotech printers! These techs could have sooo many applications.[/QUOTE]
Whoa whoa whoa hold your horses buddy we may be able to print diamond and diamondoids but picotech and femtotech implies manipulating the contents of atoms at will which is a few orders of mangitude more difficult.
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[QUOTE=pogothemunty;29725706]
where does it end?[/QUOTE]
The Planck length :v:
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;29725936]Whoa whoa whoa hold your horses buddy we may be able to print diamond and diamondoids but picotech and femtotech implies manipulating the contents of atoms at will which is a few orders of mangitude more difficult.
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Nah bro we just split the nanos and atoms and put them in a minisyringe in a tiny tiny 3d printer.
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Or we just print some split atoms.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;29725936]Whoa whoa whoa hold your horses buddy we may be able to print diamond and diamondoids but picotech and femtotech implies manipulating the contents of atoms at will which is a few orders of mangitude more difficult.
[editline]10th May 2011[/editline]
The Plack length :v:[/QUOTE]
You mean Planck?
[QUOTE=pogothemunty;29727380]You mean Planck?[/QUOTE]
Edited now :smile:
Miniature guns.
oh god my printers can hardly handle TWO dimensions
You guys are forgetting how expensive these things are to run. You don't just press print and then everything you've ever wanted gets shat out. First of all, it will generally take quite a few hours for even a small object to be printed. Second, that material is expensive as shit. To do a 3 foot by 3 foot cube of the material, it would cost about $12,960. A single cubic inch is about $10. Third, there is also a solution bath that many use to take some of the build material off (for rigidity during the print).
That being said, it is absolutely awesome if you need a small part for your X within 24 hours or so. Also, Anybody have the model for an Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube? I'm going to print one out.
in 5-10 years this shit is gonna be cheap
see you guys then
Print money.
Print a 3D printer using the 3D printer. Then, print a smaller 3D printer and put it in the bigger printed 3D printer to make it look like it's printing that printer.
[QUOTE=MangoJuice;29730069]Print a 3D printer using the 3D printer. Then, print a smaller 3D printer and put it in the bigger printed 3D printer to make it look like it's printing that printer.[/QUOTE]
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As promised, I got some pictures and videos. I could only get stuff of the powder machine, as it was the only one running. The place I work at is a company that makes the machines that make paper cups. We sell to dixie, solo, etc. And then they make thousands of cups for tacobell, pizzahut, etc.
The machine is a zcorp 510, I don't remember the work area, but I think its a bout a 12"x12"
Here is a video of it making a part, it starts as a coaster:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK9KDGM4URs[/media]
Here are some pictures of the controls and montior/software:
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0089-1.jpg[/media]
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0095-1.jpg[/media]
Here is another video of the same thing, but about a .25in up, and it's starting to make a cup, a demonstration for a customer. It the circles are very faint and are white, so look close:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HC4QSMWnA[/media]
Here is a picture of the toner/binder that holds the powder together, which gets ran through a basic hp printhead. I could not get a picture.
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0088-1.jpg[/media]
Upon completion, you have to dig through the powder and get your product that is buried, which I could not video tape, because it was supposed to end at about 3am. You then have to clean it first:
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0094-1.jpg[/media]
Then you have to add a resin and/or bake it. It depends on the resin.
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0093-1.jpg[/media]
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0092-1.jpg[/media]
And here is pretty much what the finished product looks like, although it is only 1 of 6.
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0096-1.jpg[/media]
Here are some other pictures of cool stuff they have made:
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0091-1.jpg[/media]
A free spinning ball bearing!
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0097-1.jpg[/media]
[media]http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i78/SASBoris/IMAG0098-1.jpg[/media]
Feel free to ask questions.
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