Posted on 05/04/2013 10:43:08 AM PDT by LibWhacker
In June, Staples will become among the first major retailers to offer a 3D printer. It will also be among the first to offer an affodable one, with 3D Systems’ Cube 3D printer being sold for $1,299, the company announced on Friday.
Although $1,299 may seem expensive, there was a time when the cheapest dot matrix or impact printers cost more than that. The price will inevitably come down.
The Cube 3D Printer works with both Windows and Mac OS X. It comes with 25 templates with more available online.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
All good! But like the rest of everything, libs will muck this up and stifle development just to stop people from printing boomsticks. ANY way they can.
Doesn't matter if they try to make it so "certain shapes" can't be printed if you build your own 3D printer.
Simply export a STL file from 123D and you are ready to print your model using our 3D printing services.
It is brilliant that it will be used on virtually all home computer systems, including Apple.
Here’s one for your list.
That's because the computer is not actually controlling anything. You are just downloading a file to the printer. You could use a flash drive if you have the file and the printer has a USB port, which it should.
/johnny
The profit is never in the printer itself, but in the consumables the printer uses.
“Give away the razors, sell the blades.”
So what can you use it for? Print out a bunch of Happy Meal Toys?
The materials are going to improve in the future. nanocellulose could be a game changer with one of these.
USDA Under Secretary Sherman Unveils Nanocellulose Production Facility
Posted by Rebecca Wallace, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, on August 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM
The U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory recently opened a $1.7 million production facility for renewable, forest-based nanomaterials. This facility is the first of its kind in the United States and one that positions the laboratory as the country’s leading producer of these materials, also called nanocellulose.
Nanocellulose is simply wood fiber broken down to the nanoscale. For perspective, a nanometer is roughly one-millionth the thickness of an American dime. Materials at this minute scale have unique properties; nanocellulose-based materials can be stronger than Kevlar fiber and provide high strength properties with low weight. These attributes have attracted the interest of the Department of Defense for use in lightweight armor and ballistic glass. Companies in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, consumer products, and medical device industries also see massive potential for these innovative materials.
"Here are the two most common plastics for these types of printers:
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
The gun, receiver, and magazines that Defense Distributed has created were I believe all printed in ABS plastic. It is very common. The recycling equipment you can build yourself for a few hundred dollars.
I am not a computer whiz. We have on this forum those that are. For the computer whiz: what will I get if I spend $2,000 on a 3D printer? What is the benefit?
Here are some different materials that they are using for 3D printing.
http://www.emergingobjects.com/category/materials/
Yeah I been to shows and discussed things with firms offering those services. Just haven’t actually done it yet.
A vise. some scrap angle, a hammer, a hacksaw and a rivet gun. Instant emergency Mag manufacturing facility.
With a mill and lathe you are a danger to the country ;)
/johnny
/johnny
Well that definitely changes the situation ;)
If literally common plastics will work, They are in a hell of a fix. Because any code in the printer to ban shapes will be hacked and there is no way other than criminalizing/confiscation the printers or ownership to stop gun part printing.
Which is the very same failure as gun laws that caused the whole mess in the first place.
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