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3D Printer - Replicators are here!
« on: July 23, 2011, 01:45:45 PM »
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Well, this brings Zeroxing your butt to a dangerous new level!

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Pretty cool though!
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2011, 12:48:02 PM »
Dang......Wonder how much to create copies of my lures?
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« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2011, 01:40:08 PM »
Don't be fooled, the "specially engineered composite material" that the guy talks about is actually more similar to sugar cookie dough.  It' made up of sugar, flour and a couple of other "secret" powders.  And the binder material is Cyanoacrylate Adhesive (CA) glue.  The parts that come off of these printers have no real structural strength, if you were to drop a metal wrench you could pick it up and still use it, don't try that with a 3D printed tool.  I have a few ball bearings made from this stuff and though it is pretty cool I would never use a printed part in any kind of structure or vehicle.
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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2011, 01:49:02 PM »

Make a negative mold.


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« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2011, 01:52:30 PM »
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Make a negative mold.

The "specially engineered composite material" could not stand up to the temperatures of metal casting.
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« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2011, 03:42:21 PM »
So in other words, a basses mouth would tear it up.
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Re: 3D Printer - Replicators are here!
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2011, 04:43:00 PM »
It is a single step on a longer journey.

When the materials portion of the process is improved to the point where hardness and structural strength are no longer an issue it will result in a sort of reversal of manufacturing as we know it.

A hundred years ago parts were made one at a time by skilled craftsmen...guns, for instance, were all custom made. Things were very expensive to buy and repair because of this process.

Mass production and the assembly line eliminated the skilled craftsman from the manufacturing process* thereby lowering prices (and increasing employment) and introducing the concept of interchangeable parts.

3D printing (when fully realized) will mash these two methods together giving us the best of both with the disadvantages of neither.

*Well, not really since the skilled craftsman was still involved in the design and prototype development.
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« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2011, 08:07:16 PM »
The point of the exercise is to make parts and then make the molds of that till you get to the end result. This was just showing off how it works.
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« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2011, 09:26:30 PM »
Actually John, these came about because it was too expensive and took too long to mock new designs up.  Now a designer can create an assembly and send the parts to the 3D printer and have something they can fit together or even take to design meetings to discuss new ideas or concepts.
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« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2011, 09:37:19 PM »

I like the idea of using it to create molds for custom lures.



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« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2011, 10:01:15 PM »
Actually John, these came about because it was too expensive and took too long to mock new designs up.  Now a designer can create an assembly and send the parts to the 3D printer and have something they can fit together or even take to design meetings to discuss new ideas or concepts.

 I've seen the results in the car industry.It save tons of time and money
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"On the topic of technical limitations to keeping guns out of the hands of the citizenry, let me direct your attention to the following article  on a gunsmith who "printed" a gun. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know, but I do know that it is inevitable. The first group that will make a go at it will likely be people who are legally prohibited from owning firearms, yet their livelihood depends on access to weapons; in other words, members of criminal organizations. Shortly behind them will be technically gifted people who, one can only hope, are imbued with decency and respect for human life."

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« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2013, 11:01:37 AM »
It's a technology in evolution, the applications are potentially limitless.
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« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2013, 10:49:49 AM »
Yeah, kinda creepy.
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« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2013, 06:39:04 AM »
Maybe I better lay off the fishing shows, but that looks like a gal in a muskie net to me.

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« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2013, 01:14:48 PM »
Maybe I better lay off the fishing shows, but that looks like a gal in a muskie net to me.




but.....but....butt.....
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« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2013, 06:37:40 AM »
Maybe I better lay off the fishing shows, but that looks like a gal in a muskie net to me.




but.....but....butt.....

I didn't say a muskie looked better in a net though, did I?   ;D

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3D-Printed Gun Maker at SXSW: We’re Here to Stay, and We Have Bigger Plans (VIDEO)


Using proteins, not polymers, Modern Meadow is an organization that intends to develop a 3D printer that can make food, specifically meat. Modern Meadow isn’t just looking to feed the Internet-connected starving; if you can build a steak — or at least chicken-style chicken-flavored protein chunklets — why not hormones, drugs, even synthesize replacement tissue for transplants and grafts?

Video at link.