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3d printer coming out soon, $1300 Endless possibilities
Shortbus:
Check out this quick CNN report on this affordable 3d printer, ohhhh the possibilies:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2012/03/31/nr-kaye-3d-printer.cnn
company website,,,,even shows a joystick made with this thing in the pics/ideas section...
totally fricken awesome!
Thought I'd share with the forum,
I want one!
Shortbus:
after researching more, not even sure if that is the correct website. but the company name is 3D Systems Corp demonstrates a home 3-D printer, which can print anything from shoes to prosthetics.
hypernova:
I was told our company dished out 60K for one of these things a few weeks ago...considering we're a smaller company (about 50 employees) I wasn't too happy when I heard that news.
fallacy:
Ya 3d printers are most defiantly the future. Pretty soon when we need small parts for things we will be thinking in terms of; how should I go about printing that out.
SammyWI:
Interesting, $1300 for a commercially made 3D printer is pretty sweet. I found some more info here: http://cubify.com/cube/index.aspx
The video seems a bit misleading: this is a single head printer and they talk about printing in multiple colors. Maybe doable with a single print head but you'd have to change out the colored material manually and you need to pause the print at the right time, clear the material in the head and restart in just the right spot. Nothing on the product page is shown as a multi colored print, so i'm doubtful that this particular printer was used for the multi colored prints. Still, it looks pretty cool and it's great to see these prices dropping.
Personally, I've decided to jump into 3D printing with a hobbyist kit: http://printrbot.com/ At $550 for a 6" cube build volume and an expandable design, it was enough to pry open my wallet. Of course this one is a start up, so I have some waiting before I actually get anything. I'm betting it will be May before I see anything.
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