3D Printer Makes Fully Functioning Car - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Atchell;26039251]when will it print flesh[/QUOTE] There are 3D printers in development that can: [url]http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/04/wake-forest-could-print-you-some-new-skin/[/url]

Worst title ever. It's just the body it printed out...

I'm going to 3D print a 3D printer.

Looks shopped.

[QUOTE=ItWasNiceToKnow;26036300]3D printing is expensive. As fuck.[/QUOTE] Yeah, my schools 3d printer cost 11,000$. (Plus a years supply of supplies) Or something around that number.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;26039978]Worst title ever. It's just the body it printed out...[/QUOTE] Different sources are saying different things. I know that [url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/technology/4320759]Jay Leno makes old car parts with his own 3D printer[/url], so even if this specific car isn't entirely made from one (and it is at least mostly made from one), it's possible.

It is the body. Be reasonable. [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] I mean the engine, the lamps, all the wire work in the car.

So what's the engine like then? Edit: as I expected it's just the bodywork...

If I had a spare $20,000 I would buy a 3d printer and 3d scanner.

I call bullshit. No vids and a shopped pic.

Holy shit. It [I]IS[/I] real! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4gG8su_2o[/media] Fuck. Preemptive posting. That's just a scale model.

I remember a year ago I watched a show about how soon they'd be able to print human organs the same way, and they already had a proof of concept.

[QUOTE=Fish_poke;26035753]Holy. Shit.[/QUOTE] Supreme Commander like construction. Now if we only could get flying robots to do this we could build anything anywhere.

Wait... does this mean I could print out a full-size video game character model? hm.. Alyx? brb

How'd they make the light fixtures and wiring? With the printer? If so, :aaaaa:

[QUOTE=DeanWinchester;26035921]Yeah but if we start depending too much on machines, jump a few generations and something goes seriously wrong and you're left with humans that can't do jack by themselves and will quickly starve to death.[/QUOTE] I seem to remember people saying something similar about computers.

3d printing is how Bad Dragon makes their stuff, IIRC.

[QUOTE=Mister B;26038956]I can't put my mind around the idea. What would even be the point of living if you didn't have to do [i]anything[/i] ?[/QUOTE] fuck bitches drive bugattis

Whoa, sci-fi.

The image in op is not real. The car is just a cg render integrated into a photo background. Most likely some prototype render or something.

Looks like someone shopped the car in.

And now it's only a matter of time until the 3D printers become intelligent and start printing off and assembling NEW 3D printers. And then before we know it the entire damn universe is overrun with them!

3D printer? What?

This is disappointing, article says that only the body was made from the printer, and it was made from several parts. [QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26035880]That's a good thing. If machines did all of the work humans currently do, no one would have to do anything. If we keep replacing jobs with highly efficient machines, eventually people will work less and less hours, until they barely have to work at all. It used to take working all day of a family working just to make enough food to be self sustaining, now you work 8 hours a day and you can feed your whole family. Besides, people who work in car manufacturing are overpaid.[/QUOTE] And what happens when the machines break, and nobody bothered learning how to fix them because they could live in luxury without working?

[QUOTE=SuperLoz;26035757]Must cost a fortune in ink.[/QUOTE] From what my teacher told me back in Media... $75 for every tub. [editline]13th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Mingebox;26047661]This is disappointing, article says that only the body was made from the printer, and it was made from several parts. And what happens when the machines break, and nobody bothered learning how to fix them because they could live in luxury without working?[/QUOTE] That's not all that bad... That means some form of human/machine intervention is required which in my opinion will just be the type of, "Make sure this thing doesn't melt while it's driving" type of thing.

[QUOTE=Tacosheller;26041655]I remember a year ago I watched a show about how soon they'd be able to print human organs the same way, and they already had a proof of concept.[/QUOTE] we can now its still in testing - im sure you dont want a new lung with a hole in it or ones thats to thin [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Tacosheller;26041710]Wait... does this mean I could print out a full-size video game character model? hm.. Alyx? brb[/QUOTE] yes you could if you had a big 3D printer Kepp in mind it takes awhile to do

Eventually once we get nanobots doing the dirty work this should become cheap and efficient. Eventually :allears:

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26035880]That's a good thing. If machines did all of the work humans currently do, no one would have to do anything. If we keep replacing jobs with highly efficient machines, eventually people will work less and less hours, until they barely have to work at all. It used to take working all day of a family working just to make enough food to be self sustaining, now you work 8 hours a day and you can feed your whole family. Besides, people who work in car manufacturing are overpaid.[/QUOTE] This is correct. During the industrial revolution people were freaking over how machines would replace everyone because nothing would need to be hand-crafted. Two hundred years after that and we still have jobs. Even though nothing's hand-crafted today. These days there are other kinds of jobs to be done, and [i]if there is nothing for people to do, people do not need to work.[/i] That's the futuristic utopia: robots do all the work, everyone has an allowance of sorts to spend the resources.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;26037088]Machines repairing machines. Besides, my entire argument was if machines could, I never said they would. They could easily cut the working time of the average person in half, yet everyone in this thread makes it seem like that's the end of the world.[/QUOTE] What if that machine fails to repair and make new machines? Especially if people found no point in learning to repair them because they were used to seeing machines doing them?

[QUOTE=Mingebox;26047661]This is disappointing, article says that only the body was made from the printer, and it was made from several parts. And what happens when the machines break, and nobody bothered learning how to fix them because they could live in luxury without working?[/QUOTE] Machines repairing machines. [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;26048317]What if that machine fails to repair and make new machines? Especially if people found no point in learning to repair them because they were used to seeing machines doing them?[/QUOTE] Replace it? And who said that people would totally neglect education at all? It's nice to know that people on facepunch don't actually enjoy learning as a passtime.