Space age 3D Printer - Page 3

Papa_Complex · 07-21-2011, 10:11 AM

I networked a couple of these things. Cool as hell. No idea why it was our Faculty of Architecture that bought them though, rather than Aerospace or Mech Eng.

askmrjesus · 07-21-2011, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

I networked a couple of these things. Cool as hell. No idea why it was our Faculty of Architecture that bought them though, rather than Aerospace or Mech Eng.

Easier than making models from scratch?

JC

Papa_Complex · 07-21-2011, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Easier than making models from scratch?

JC

Only just, considering how they make them. Seems like a waste of some pretty heavy tech.

derf · 07-21-2011, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

I networked a couple of these things. Cool as hell. No idea why it was our Faculty of Architecture that bought them though, rather than Aerospace or Mech Eng.

its becoming fairly common to use them to make complex forms and shapes, and also easy to fix a mistake without ever looking at a model because its on the screen

AquaPython · 07-21-2011, 02:08 PM

this guy takes it a step further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7a5b2b5Ljs

askmrjesus · 07-21-2011, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by AquaPython

this guy takes it a step further.

That seems like an awful lot of work, just to make a glass dog turd, and a bowl nobody wants to eat out of.

JC

pauldun170 · 12-09-2011, 11:34 AM

http://gizmodo.com/5866491/fraudster...g-atm-skimmers

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