Low cost 3-D metal printer

[Kyle78]

Give it 10 years and we'll all have home units. This tech. is still new, but advancing fast.

 

[dennishoddy]

I want one. Getting tired of making replacement parts for the farm stuff on my lathe's.

 

[tRidiot]

I think it's awesome. And while it may still be "a long way off", that quantifier is up to interpretation. Some people think that means 5-10 years, others wouldn't expect it in less than 50.

But let's think about how much things have changed in 50 years, hmm? Given the exponential nature of improvements in technology, I believe it could be closer than many think.

Notable achievements in science in 1963:

First liver transplant.
First lung transplant.
First kidney transplant from a living, brain-dead donor.
Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".
The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opens in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Lava lamp invented.
1st episode of Doctor Who.


I dunno why I posted all that... I guess I'm just bored. Seemed itneresting at the time, now it seems kinda... I dunno... pointless.

 

[Perplexed]

I wonder if the lava lamp could really be considered a "notable achievement"

 

[tRidiot]

I wonder if the lava lamp could really be considered a "notable achievement"

It was a slow year... I was stretching.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

I think it's awesome. And while it may still be "a long way off", that quantifier is up to interpretation. Some people think that means 5-10 years, others wouldn't expect it in less than 50.

But let's think about how much things have changed in 50 years, hmm? Given the exponential nature of improvements in technology, I believe it could be closer than many think.

Notable achievements in science in 1963:

First liver transplant.
First lung transplant.
First kidney transplant from a living, brain-dead donor.
Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".
The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opens in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Lava lamp invented.
1st episode of Doctor Who.


I dunno why I posted all that... I guess I'm just bored. Seemed itneresting at the time, now it seems kinda... I dunno... pointless.

Look how cell phones went from the Bag Phone and phone calls were only feature. Now we basically have a computer, camera and phone device in a package as small as the key pad on one of those bag phones.

 

[Johnny]

Give it 10 years and we'll all have home units. This tech. is still new, but advancing fast.

New is a realitive term. 3-D printing has been around for 20 years or longer.

The prototype for the intake on the V-10 that dodge used in the viper was a 3-d printed component. It was a uv cured plastic. That technology used a laser to solidify a UV sensitive polymer. The parts would last long enough for them to get flow data and do dyno runs. They would tweak the model print another and try again.

 

[Sanford]

I wonder if the lava lamp could really be considered a "notable achievement"

Absolutely! The sixties and early seventies wouldn't have been the same without lava lamps, black lights, and velvet Elvis posters.

 

[Neanderthal]

Interesting video.

http://video.fieldandstream.com/vid...TGDM33CP&t=World's First 3D Printed Metal Gun

 

[aviator41]

The most fascinating of all the 3d printing processes if you ask me. Laser Metal Sintering is such a cool technology.