3D Printer! Amazing!
 

You gear heads have to watch this! It truly is amazing! Jim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aghz...e_gdata_player


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"That guy didn't build that company.The government built it"

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Thought you would like it.

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How can they scan something like that wrench and replicate the screws and gears that are hidden from sight? Was the scan also an X-ray ?

As many times as I get mad and throw a wrench out in the yard I would need two of those machines!

JimR

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Pretty amazing. Since this is high technology, I wonder if they could scan the woman of your choice, install a mute button, and "3-D print her."

They would surpass Apple. We could call the company "Adam of the Reclaimed Rib."

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Now that's funny, I don't care who you are! Jim:D

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Yes! Thanks Dennis. This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. I wonder how much one of those cost?:eek: Jim


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cheap and small parts less thand a grand, great and big parts 100K+.

One of my clients uses one for proto typing cases for Apple and other computer companies. Much cheaper than the old days of making injection molds

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And you don't even need to buy one if you live in the right area.

A year or two ago Kitplanes Magazine (an airplane magazine) had an article about a machine shop in the San Francisco bay area that is open to the public. Besides lathes, milling machines, and other normal machine shop tools, they had one of those 3D printers connected to a PC with AutoCAD. Bring in your CAD drawing of a part, or draw it there, and 3D print the part. All you pay is time and material costs. Pretty slick and inexpensive way to prototype a part.

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Work has begun to try printing artificial human organs, such as kidneys. The cartridge is filled with cloned cells. Early attempts did not hold up well. I read somewhere (probably Smithsonian Magazine) that future prototypes will be injected onto a sort of scaffold, to stabilize the structure while the layers are being printed.