When I need a new gouge, I'll just print it out
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lorbay
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Wow. what will they think of next.
Lin.
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OOPS
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That is just incredible! I especially like the turning gears. Its just amazing that someone could think up something like this and make it work.
Drstrangefart
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I need one of those....
JimB
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That was pretty cool.
jcm71
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Man, that is cool. Now if they could copy one of our pens and have it come out functional we'd all have to find a new hobby/addiction. 
toddlajoie
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Very cool, I'm thinking they left out a few small technical aspects in order to make it a 4 minute video that anyone could understand, but there had to be some hands on conversion from the scanner to the 3D CAD drawing that knew that the thumb screw had a center pin that held it in place and allowed it to rotate, and could be selected and colored a different color than the rest....
The concept of printing a composite material like that is absolutely fantastic, and probably opens up the ability to create functional objects that would not be possible to assemble once the individual components were produced...
The concept of printing a composite material like that is absolutely fantastic, and probably opens up the ability to create functional objects that would not be possible to assemble once the individual components were produced...
U-Turn
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Hot dang - keep my wife away from that thing!!!!
bnoles
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Absolutely mind boggling!
Haynie
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Now that is neat.
biednick
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I hve something similar to that, but I haven't gotten it working yet. I was a kit that we bought. Most of it is laser cut plywood. It melts a thin ABS string and builds layer to build almost anything. Not bad for less than $1,000!
Here's a link: http://www.makerbot.com/
EDIT: Well, now they cost a bit more, but still not too bad.
Here's a link: http://www.makerbot.com/
EDIT: Well, now they cost a bit more, but still not too bad.
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bitshird
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Rapid Prototype 3D printers have been around quite a while, But now the cost is coming down the one we had at school cost 85,000.00 4 years ago, and the strata sheet that you build on is expensive as all get out, plus the media it's self is kind of pricy, There is a new system for home players that only costs about 1500.00, but it's somewhat limited. The programing is the expensive part, Solidworks plays nicely with the one we had at school.
jpjoinery
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That machine will make what few pattern makers there are extinct !!! smart piece of kit though !!!
Parson
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I want to know how their scanner penetrated hardened steel to see that thumb gear. I smell a rat.
Mike of the North
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The Navy was involved in developing a similar system that used metal so the would not have to carry a lot of replacement parts, they could just make them.
The company I worked for had two, one machine used a liquid that would harden with a uv light, the other used paper that it built up in layers, look up stereolithography to find more info.
The company I worked for had two, one machine used a liquid that would harden with a uv light, the other used paper that it built up in layers, look up stereolithography to find more info.
Fibonacci
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Especially considering the different gear pitch between the "original" and the identical duplicate.
SDB777
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Did anyone else see the first reply in the section below the video?
"Can you reproduce my ex-wife and give her a better personality?"
PRICELESS!!!
Scott (how much would that cost) B
"Can you reproduce my ex-wife and give her a better personality?"
PRICELESS!!!
Scott (how much would that cost) B