Guide to Personal 3D Printers

Retrevo ^ | 1/10/13 | Andrew Eisner

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Lots of links and videos, you may want to book mark this one.

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3-D Printer ping

[JRandomFreeper]

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Have you read 'Makers' by Cory Doctorow?

It's available for free download, although I did also buy a copy.

/johnny

[Clock King]

Marked! I’m getting one after I start working again.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I am going to print an idol of myself and have the locals worship me as their God.

/joke

[Vince Ferrer]

I go to the website 3ders.org often. They also have a list of a lot of printers , and a lot of articles on things people are doing with them.

[GeronL]

the next gen of kids will have the coolest toys, imagine producing toys and remote control vehicles of your own design

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Welcome aboard.

I’ll check out the book.

[piasa]

No, but it can make a model of Obama that is as useful, if not more so, than the real thing.

[RegulatorCountry]

I don’t see this as being any more than a novelty in the consumer retail segment if the existing printer model for consumables is followed. The real profit center is the toner cartridges and not the printer itself.

The same thing will happen with feedstock for these 3D printers, rendering any output uneconomical. Better encourage an open source means of providing usable plastics. The “green” angle might be of some use even if it’s a sort of subterfuge.

This will have the effect of preventing the price of the 3D printer unit itself from falling to really accessible, cheap levels, but that itself would be a subterfuge as it is with computer printers. Or cell phones, for that matter.

[Fellow Traveler]

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is a boon to small inventors. Up until now if you wanted to have a prototype built you had to have a large run done. And then what happens if you find a design flaw? What looks good on paper can not work very well in real life. $10,000 just went down the drain.

With this you can make "a" prototype and test it without going to the expense of having a mold made.

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Done!

[this_ol_patriot]

I’m going to make a million making 3D Yodi.

[Jack Hydrazine]

But will it make 3d cookies?

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You didn’t click through, didja?

[dadfly]

bookmark.

[OldNewYork]

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[THX 1138]

Interesting. Please add me to your ping list.