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3D Printer - - FANTASTIC!

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Check out this 3D Printer. This is FANTASTIC :!:
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3D Chocolate printer! :D

(seriously, it was on BBC News earlier this week - being developed as a prototype)
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I have come across the term "fabber" - described as a factory in a box. I believe the first application has been prototyping.
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Grok wrote:I believe the first application has been prototyping.
Indeed. At the current state of the art the devices are two slow for meaningful production runs and the resulting product is not robust enough for actual use. Those drawbacks may be tamed going forward, but at the moment the objects produced through the process are more useful for mould and cast design than actual use in the field.
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Stereolithography. You gotta love it.

They're great for prototypes, getting the design right before throwing a big wad of cash at the tooling for production injection molding. And for a couple of grand you can get one that will do rough prototyping for you. Check out the thing-o-matic at http://www.makerbot.com/

I wouldn't do anything with a tighter tolerance than 25 mils with it, but it is still pretty doggone cool.
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