Posted on 01/11/2013 10:25:31 AM PST by null and void
Printed product looks a little grainy. I wonder if PLA can be vapor polished like acrylic?
Yeah, they are inexpensive, but how much is the ink? };^)
Homeprinted grenade casings, with the whole inner works.
Just add ballbearings, powder and a lighter flint.
Oh, and mines.
I see this as the modern equivalent of the Sinclair “home computer”. That is, though it is really cool it isn’t really all that useful, it speaks to what we can expect in the future and is, from that perspective, very exciting.
Dude
I think you’ve hit upon what this thing will be used for.
There are several sub $500 kits available on eBay. People found out something quickly, you can buy one and use it to make parts to replicate itself. At least two of the makers have open-sourced their designs and encourage replication. I am really considering buying a kit. I was just thinking of all the little things I buy like cord organizers, repair piece of trim for my car (or replacements for a classic that you can’t get parts for any longer), parts to repair handles, etc.. all those little $20-$30 items add up quickly. Now, you can get plans for gun magazines online to ‘print’. We may be looking at a potential new economic boom like what happened with the Internet in the 90s- an entirely new economic sector.
Run off a bunch of $1T coins and save the country.
Incredible! I think there will be some inventor uses, some artistic uses.and then it’s going to take off. This level is probably way imperfect now ( but remember the first consumer computers?) but making it available to the non -specialist public is very exciting.
Less than ink jet ink and it goes pretty far. $30-$50 per spool.
Thus, paving the way for inventors who lack the tools or mechanical know-how to build their prototypes by hand.
I like it.
HOLLY: I was in love once — a Sinclair ZX-81. People said, “No, Holly, she’s not for you.” She was cheap, she was stupid and she wouldn’t load — well, not for me, anyway.
LISTER: What are you trying to say, Hol?
HOLLY: What I’m saying, Dave, is that it’s better to have loved and to have lost than to listen to an album by Olivia Newton-John.
CAT: Why’s that?
HOLLY: Anything’s better than listening to an album by Olivia Newton-John.
Caseings are the easy part its the timer and detonator that’s the hard part.
Ahhhh, that’s Old School!
“We may be looking at a potential new economic boom like what happened with the Internet in the 90s- an entirely new economic sector.”
Yes, and I don’t think China is going to like it. Half of the stuff they make and sell us can probably be made at home.
Interesting ideas. That’s what I think, too: It puts production within the reach lot everybidy.
...and testing.
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