star trek technology now! 3d printing

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yeah sure , they just leave the horse and cart out side and dangle a few wires about the place. very good really.
 
wasnt someone here making disk drive eject buttons somehow?
 
I have a Rapman 3.1 ABS/PLA 3D printer.
The build area is around 8x8x10 inches and I mainly use ABS for anything I create. Its a great piece of kit, but it does take a lot of time to produce something from scratch.
I could print floppy eject buttons, I would just need to create a model using Sketchup, or similar 3D modeller, split it into layers using an stl file creator, and then print it. Printing process takes quite a while but is great to watch :)
 
Hi shadieb

I'd love to see one of these machines working :-) , I'll fire up YouTube

Mike
 
Its a fantastic bit of kit, but to be useful you have to be reasonably competent at creating 3D models. I have learnt my way around Sketchup which is more than adequate for basic stuff. There is also a wealth of models on thingiverse that you can download and print. Only problem with them is they take a long while to print, and it gets a bit boring after a while just reproducing someone elses model.

Still a great toy I wouldn't be without.
 
These are the guys that actually make them :-

http://www.bitsfrombytes.com

Not cheap, but very rewarding.

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mjnurney

I'm only in Hull, East Yorkshire roughly an hour away from you.
You are more than welcome to pop over anytime you fancied and have a play with the printer.
 
I actually have a colleague who built his own 3D printer from scratch (an 18 month project I think alltogether, of course on a small budget), it prints in a plastic and does like 12x12x8cm or such.

I send him a link to a professional job; one of the guys on Amibay who ordered a small C64c case for a DTV, then the next morning he had made a miniatur model for me that waited on my desk... about 3x2x0.5cm, still cool though! :lol:

He's been refining it and last object I saw out of the printer was a multi part dodecahedron type thing with jagged edges (kinda like gears) on the inside, which all rotated when you twisted one corner... I was well impressed!
:bowdown:

Edit: This design!!, only a little bit smaller.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=U7j5jtVFmXI
 
For the interests of my bank balance can this thread be closed , deleted and erased from memory.

Thank you


....a 3d printer from scratch you say...

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3d printing is the most impressive thing I've seen for a long, long time.
 
Seriously impressive stuff :-)


Now can it make girls? The guys did it in weird science!
 
I´m sure I saw someone here saying he´s printing boobs...

Personally though, the idea of printing Amiga cases would seem interesting.
 
A couple of years back I followed the development of 3d printers.

In the end I decided that a cnc milling machine can do most of the same work and is much easier and cheaper to build.

I would love to have both pieces of equipment - they would compliment each other quite well.
 
That is absolutely stunning and has come on leaps and bounds from the plastic 'layer' 3d printers I saw at the science museum a few years back. For me also, if that video is genuine that is one of the most impressive things I have seen in years.. :bowdown:

What makes is particularly special is the fact the wrench was made in one go and worked with its moving parts - stunning. In fact I still would have been very impressed had it have been produced to that accuracy without moving parts, i.e. it was a solid object..

Thanks for posting :thumbsup:

Adrian

PS - I've got a dodgy knee - give it ten years and I bet they will be able to digitally X-Ray my knee, produce a perfect version in a computer before printing it out and replacing the existing one. The cool bit is it would be a perfect version of *my knee* so it would work as it did after rehabilitation! I'm not so scared of getting old know :thumbsup::D
 
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