3D Super Cool Printer or method for spreading plastic toxins everywhere?

[Dok]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw

 

[Kilika]

That's part of what they call rapid-prototyping. Been out for a few years now. Very neat technology, and saves a TON of money in product design costs. If you want a proof of concept sample for investors, you don't have to pay a whole factory to tool their machines to make it.

Opens up alot of different possibilities.

[Dok]

That's part of what they call rapid-prototyping. Been out for a few years now. Very neat technology, and saves a TON of money in product design costs. If you want a proof of concept sample for investors, you don't have to pay a whole factory to tool their machines to make it.

Opens up alot of different possibilities.

it can be used for so much more than samples. It can make actual usable parts.

[goforward]

has some minor misleading footage as far as the scanning of the internal parts of the wrench
http://youtu.be/1yt8ZZGFkFc

very cool

[Dok]

Rolling off the 3D printing press... the world's first 'printed' car - and it actually works

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2041106/Urbee-The-worlds-printed-car-rolling-3D-printing-presses-.html

The world’s first 'printed' car has finally rolled off the printing press.

The 'Urbee' was made using a special printer which built up layer upon layer of bodywork - almost as if the car was 'painted' into existence, except using layers of ultra-thin composite that are slowly 'fused' into a solid.
But unlike most 'innovations' in cars, this one won't break down after 5 years - Urbee is built to last 30. Project leader Jim Kor, told MailOnline today: 'For us, this unveiling was quite a milestone.

Underneath is a petrol and electric hybrid engine which helps make it one of the greenest cars in the world.
Experts have said the car uses eight times less energy than a similar vehicle and can go can go 200mpg on the motorway.

It also has a sleek, futuristic design which makes it look like a prop from a science fiction film like the Fifth Element.

The ‘printing’ process, however, it what has attracted so much attention: it was completely different to the normal way car manufacturers build a car, which is to bolt chunks of bodywork on where they need to go.

Engineers on the Urbee instead put layers of ultra thin composite material on top of each other so they become fused together to make it 3D in a process called ‘additive layer manufacturing’.

[Jackson Holly]

You knew this was coming ...
3D Printable FOOD!

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/printing-food-with-3d-printers/

http://www.gizmag.com/cornucopia-digital-gastronomy-3d-food-printer/13873/

EXCERPT:

Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy - could 3D
printing be the next revolution in cooking?


Wouldn't it be great to have a digital food machine sitting in your kitchen that could create any dish, real or imagined, from scratch at the touch of a button? Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy is a concept design that uses the well-established principles of 3D printing - plus precisely timed and temperature-controlled mixing and cooking - to open the door to a virtually limitless realm of replicable, creative cuisine in shapes and combinations that are simply impossible using our current, centuries-old cooking techniques. It's a wonderful look into the future of cooking, from the creative food lover's perspective.


We see all sorts of home gadgetry here at Gizmag, but I think it's fair to say that there hasn't been a truly revolutionary invention in the world of cooking since the microwave oven - and those started popping up in homes more than 40 years ago. Otherwise, we're still frying, casseroling, baking, pressure cooking, roasting, barbecuing, steaming and grilling our dinners in much the same way as we have done for hundreds of years.

For many, the simple and precise application of heat, fire, metal and various different ingredients has become a fine art - but surely we're overdue for a technological overhaul in the kitchen that might open up some new possibilities.

The Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy concept design is an ingenious attempt to turn the cooking process upside down, open up a whole range of new creative possibilities and bring creative cooking into a new and replicable phase for the information age.

Cornucopia builds up edible creations using a layering process similar to some of the 3D printing machines we've been writing about recently, except that it uses a variety of different foodstuffs instead of plastics to build up its final product.

[Dok]

The printer is super cool, food out of it though, isnt...

[One Revelator]

An AR-15 magazine, floorplate, follower and spring printed on a 3D desktop printer.





http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/09/21/welcome-to-the-future-print-yourself-an-ar-15-magazine-at-home/

[Dig]

PLASTIC PLANET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNu8hTOBag

[Dok]

typical...