A 3-D Printer/Copier

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Here's a video where they show them printing bladders and prototype kidneys for human transplantation purposes.

[notyoueither]

Wow.

[MrFun]

Here's a video where they show them printing bladders and prototype kidneys for human transplantation purposes.

oh my god

[MattBowron]

You don't need a 3D printer to print money.

Last I heard, RepRap was able to print 50% of a new RepRap. Aside from the custom electronics, everything that it can't print you can get at a hardware store. However, a lot of the stuff you can print you probably shouldn't print. My colleague bought a prototype RepRap Mendel built by somebody else, and it came with springs and gears laser-cut from wood. The toolhead fixture was wood, and it came apart when the wood glue melted from the heat travelling up the toolhead. Everything about that printer was terrible, even the z-axis rods were bent, and we never got it to work (it caught fire twice).

Later my group bought a Makerbot, a derivative of the RepRap, for about $1500. It took a day to assemble, and worked nearly perfectly on the first try.

SP

Hey Fve Crathva, thanks for the additional info about RepRap, I didn't know they were still only doing 50% and had those problems. Cool info about Makerbot though. At least were making more steps forward with this kind of technology.

[Fve Crathva]

That RepRap was from a year ago, the hardware options have come a long way since then. The Prusa Mendel makes it quite a lot simpler, and I've seen people use them successfully. I still don't think I'd want to go in the RepRap direction unless I had a lot of time on my hands for tweaking (and easy access to a machine shop).

SP

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

In my prevoius job working in the printing industry these were the big thing for label printers. This was widely seen as an approach for clients to integrate a total prototype marketing concept approach. 3D stereolithography is cool stuff. Likewise an alternative approach was inkjet printing taken to its logical conclusion.

Now I get to work with nukes, about as far away from innovative design but still equally cool.

[MrFun]

Now I get to work with nukes . . .

And knowing this has always frightened me on some level.

[Al B. Sure!]

And knowing this has always frightened me on some level.

Thank god all you do is organize book shelves and do research on Lincoln

[self biased]

The fact that he's holding a wrench and that the strip appeared around the same time that clip went viral

"went viral?"

i expected better of you, Matt.

[KrazyHorse]

Is it that terrible a phrase?

[self biased]

let me put it this way: every time i hear some bull**** newscaster mention how one thing or another "went viral" i throw something in the general direction where that noise is coming from. It is a misbegotten term suitable for commoners and provincial hillbillies, who think they sound edgy by saying "gone viral" instead of "became popular" because it reminds them of the few very successful 'viral' marketing campaigns for The Dark Knight and Nine Inch Nail's album Year Zero.

people who use that phrase seriously should really have their genitals forcibly removed, and their breeding rights expunged.

[KrazyHorse]

Tell me how you really feel...

[Al B. Sure!]

let me put it this way: every time i hear some bull**** newscaster mention how one thing or another "went viral" i throw something in the general direction where that noise is coming from. It is a misbegotten term suitable for commoners and provincial hillbillies, who think they sound edgy by saying "gone viral" instead of "became popular" because it reminds them of the few very successful 'viral' marketing campaigns for The Dark Knight and Nine Inch Nail's album Year Zero.

people who use that phrase seriously should really have their genitals forcibly removed, and their breeding rights expunged.

So much hate over a mere phrase... have you tried yoga or meditation?

Tell me how you really feel...

I think he already did.

[self biased]

I crush pussies for my relaxation, al, something that is wholly an alien concept to you.

"gone Viral" just bespeaks the ignorance of trendwhores that I cannot tolerate.

[MrFun]

I bet you kill kitties in your sleep.