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| Thread ID: 79086 | 2007-05-07 19:33:00 | 3-D Printing | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 548093 | 2007-05-07 19:33:00 | They have been used in medicine and automotives for a short while...from making skin graft material to embossed dashboards and designs in things like jewelry..but now it's coming home.... Three-dimensional printers - with their up-to-$100,000 price tags - have been a part of industrial design shops for more than a decade. Now Pasadena-based Desktop Factory is trying to bring these printers to the desktop. The $5,000 desktop device, handy not only in design but also for those of us with a propensity for losing and/or breaking remote control battery covers and the like, is expected to be available sometime this year. "We are Easy-Bake Ovening a 3-D model," Bill Gross, chairman of IdeaLab - which launched Desktop Factory (www.desktopfactory.com/) - told the New York Times (http:). "The really powerful thing about this idea is that the fundamental engineering allows us to make it for $300 in materials." Desktop Factory isn't the only horse in the 3D desktop printer race, and the competition could drive prices to less than $2,000 in as little as three years. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 548094 | 2007-05-07 23:22:00 | Sounds very interesting, and currently very expensive. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 548095 | 2007-05-08 04:36:00 | Warning - don't let your kids play with a 3D Printer and Google at the same time! Charming though it may be, a 1/2 scale grand Canyon will blow your budget for supplies, and even a 1/4 scale 747 will make the neighbours nervous. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 548096 | 2007-05-08 04:58:00 | Warning - don't let your kids play with a 3D Printer and Google at the same time! Charming though it may be, a 1/2 scale grand Canyon will blow your budget for supplies, and even a 1/4 scale 747 will make the neighbours nervous. not to mention it'll take you over your cap. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 548097 | 2007-05-08 05:14:00 | LOL ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 548098 | 2007-05-08 05:42:00 | not to mention it'll take you over your cap. And your car. And your house. And your neighbourhood. :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 548099 | 2007-05-08 07:04:00 | 3d pr0n! :P | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 548100 | 2007-05-08 07:28:00 | 3d pr0n! :P nah..can't beat the real thing:cool: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 548101 | 2007-05-08 07:53:00 | You can make them for cheap compared to that.- theres open source plans avaialable plus software all you need is a workshop with some materials (not to expensive if you go dumpster diving) and a few tools. www.fabathome.org |
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