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Interests => Hobbies => Topic started by: BEG on September 17, 2012, 05:02:09 PM

Title: 3-D printer
Post by: BEG on September 17, 2012, 05:02:09 PM
My son ordered a 3-D printer months ago, long before he moved here from Cleveland. He received it about a week ago and is putting it together. It's called a Printbot Plus. Here is the link to the site: LINK (http://printrbot.com/)

Here is a video of it printing a 3-D item on YouTube. This isn't his video, he is still putting his together.

[youtube=425,350]XocX0DJSDu0[/youtube]
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: DefiantSix on September 17, 2012, 05:31:21 PM
BEG, what design software is your son using with this?

(Color me envious.) :II:
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: BEG on September 17, 2012, 06:42:39 PM
He has solid works and another one I cant remember, there is also open source software he can use.
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: RightCoast on September 18, 2012, 07:37:15 PM
My company is about to start selling industrial grade 3-D printers, I think the contracts will be singed in a few days.  The market is wide open and the things these printers can print are incredible. 
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on September 24, 2012, 05:51:19 PM
...the contracts will be singed in a few days...

(http://legendarymoves.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/burning-contract.jpg)

Spelling counts when bunnies are about.
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: RightCoast on September 24, 2012, 07:24:23 PM
(http://legendarymoves.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/burning-contract.jpg)

Spelling counts when bunnies are about.

Ha! Got it.

3D printers are very cool. We'll have a $70,000 model as a demo machine to print samples and use as a trainer for the technicians that will have to support it.  We're looking forward to really pushing the market, 3D printers aren't marketed aggressively in this area so It will be interesting to see if it works as a business model.
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: zeitgeist on September 26, 2012, 06:10:05 PM
Whoa, lucky.   What are you going to ask for first?  (Did you check out all the youtubes on it making things?) :drool:

Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: BEG on October 02, 2012, 06:35:33 PM
My son went to Dallas to visit his high school friends. He took his 3-D printer with him. Look what he made with it.

The kid in the picture is his friend Zach.

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/Foam_Kitty/ea35f01f0341e60daa66ef326514f4e1.jpg)

Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: Zeus on October 02, 2012, 06:57:27 PM
What is that, a Pan Flute ?
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: BEG on October 02, 2012, 07:17:01 PM
What is that, a Pan Flute ?

Yes

He also made this

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/Foam_Kitty/4d182c0ab588d920699a3303e639a2fe.jpg)
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: RobJohnson on October 29, 2012, 03:41:16 PM
Very cool, neat videos also.
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: RobJohnson on May 07, 2013, 01:21:53 AM
The world's first 3D-printed handgun has been successfully fired in Texas. FOX (http://tinyurl.com/c32ellm)

 "Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser." -New York Congressman Steve

(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/923273_10151404494191336_334429439_n.png)
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: Ptarmigan on May 07, 2013, 11:37:37 AM
Cool.
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: Karin on May 10, 2013, 08:08:31 AM
This stuff just blows my mind! 
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: Wineslob on May 17, 2013, 09:47:56 AM
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-4-worst-things-people-are-making-with-3d-printers/
Title: Re: 3-D printer
Post by: RobJohnson on May 17, 2013, 10:12:14 PM
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-4-worst-things-people-are-making-with-3d-printers/

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All parents think their baby is the cutest thing in the world. Still, there are times during a child's development that are best left to imagination and blurry ultrasound images. We're talking about fetus time here -- ain't no one wants to see that shit in detail.

Or so you'd think! Japan has taken the 3D printer and created a booming business from scanning your unborn child and printing a copy of it inside a transparent plastic cube. You can use your freshly acquired ghoulish fetal apparition as a bookend, paperweight, or (most likely) the reason your children will stop talking to you by the time they're 10



Read more: http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-4-worst-things-people-are-making-with-3d-printers/#ixzz2TbtGieTJ