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  • #16
    Wow. I had no idea that exists.

    And HC's school has one

    It's like he lives on another planet.
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    "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
      Wow. I had no idea that exists.

      And HC's school has one

      It's like he lives on another planet.
      Yeah, that thing must have cost thousands of dollars.

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      • #18
        He has one in each of his bathrooms to print bogroll as and when he needs it.
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        • #19
          Originally posted by Provost Harrison View Post
          He has one in each of his bathrooms to print bogroll as and when he needs it.


          I have no idea what the **** bogroll is but from the context, I assumed toilet paper.

          Still ****ing hilarious comment
          "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
          "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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          • #20
            Do you not call the toilet "the bog" colloquially?
            Speaking of Erith:

            "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Provost Harrison View Post
              Do you not call the toilet "the bog" colloquially?
              Not in America... we don't even have bogs here.
              "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
              "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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              • #22
                Alby, you are SO ****ing stupid.

                When are you going to realize that no one is interested in your outrage over the fact that I got a better education than you did?
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by MrFun View Post
                  How long have they've been around?
                  Experimental 3D printers were made in the early 90s. They've been discussed in science fiction in stories like "Lobsters" from Charles Stross, which was later made, with a bunch of other related stories into the book Accelerando, that's free for download. They've been on shows like Australia's "Beyond Tomorrow". You might also want to look into something called RepRap. It's a 3D printer that can print the parts of another 3D printer, basically a self-replicating machine. And that 3D printer can also print tools.
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                  • #24
                    They've also been thinking of bio-printing, using instead of ink, stem-cells, with the idea to print actual replacement organs in the future. This was presented in a series called 2057 by Michu Kaku, particularly in the first episode: The Body.
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                    • #25
                      I tried to make tuna salad using one. I'm no long allowed near them.
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                      • #26
                        Yeah DaShi - tuna salad made from resin doesn't sound tasty.
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by MattBowron View Post
                          You might also want to look into something called RepRap. It's a 3D printer that can print the parts of another 3D printer, basically a self-replicating machine. And that 3D printer can also print tools.
                          holy ****
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                          • #28
                            they sometimes use a metallic based resin, other resins are more like plastics, good for such things as making a new design for a tennis shoe, to models of various kinds, to actual things that could be useful, like say washers for taps, and other simple metal-like objects. By the way the 3D printer doesn't print every part required for another 3D printer, this isn't grey goo nanotechnology, yet. Though they have made a few things back in the early 90s such as spelling IBM with xenon atoms, back in 1991 I think. Those atom-movers however are still quite expensive and use a lot of power to electro-magnetically move atoms using a scanning-tunnelling microscope.
                            "Life is the only RPG you'll ever play, The religious want to be one with the moderator, the scientists want to hack the game, and the gamers want to do both."

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                            • #29
                              What about money? I think printing that could be pretty useful.

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                              • #30
                                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.

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                                Last edited by Fve Crathva; July 26, 2011, 00:21.
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