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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 08:45 AM Original message |
3-D printers! This is so cool |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. This guy sells them for $1299.00 I'm amazed. |
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Flubadubya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Did they mention how much the "expendable materials" cost? |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Here you go |
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Flubadubya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:38 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. OK, so a kilo (2.2 lbs) of the stuff costs about $50. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. There's different types of materials |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
29. That's going to be the end of the sex toy industry. When people can design and print their own |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:58 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Oh yes custom made. Scan a real one and presto a great substitute |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. Those are amazing. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. Those things are way cool. nt |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
4. They're getting almost affordable for individual households |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. there's more than one method |
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chalky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #4 |
20. Shapeways is the site I stumbled across a couple of years ago. |
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Pharaoh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
5. Holy Fuck!!!! |
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duhneece (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
6. Hard to believe |
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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
7. Un-bee-lee-va-ble!!!!!! |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. You design the items to be built in a CAD program.. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 06:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
37. The component parts are still made individually. (NT) |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
10. Whoa! Far fucking out! |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
13. We have one at work, check THIS out: 3-D printing working body parts, ears, kidneys... |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:03 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. One pancreas please, in a medium large.. |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Good grief! Hips, knees, corneas this just boggles my mind. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
14. I worked on huge press in the '60's.. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 06:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
39. Those sorts of machines required a mold. |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
16. Pair it with Cornell's Food Printer and we're all set! |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. I just read where they are building things out of chocolate rather than resin. |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. That's good to hear -- the resin hurts my teeth. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
17. I'm gonna pounce on one when the price drops another couple of hundred bucks |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
21. How could the scanner portion have known about the internal screw threads? |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I can't but thats the part that really excited me. Think of the things that |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. What, I believe, we dont see .... |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. I'm a Max user and I'm somewhat familiar with... |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
22. That just messed up my head.....wow. |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
25. Kick for later view |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
26. Not quite a |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
27. Very, very Cool!! |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
32. The future is 3-D website. It includes clothing, |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
33. This is awesome. it will be the end of Corporate Mass Production Capitalism. |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
34. Is this where they print the wrench |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
38. SCIENCE! nt |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
40. My girlfriends company has been experimenting with these for prototyping |
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