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3D printer that replicates parts? Oh joy!
Thenasty:
crap... I'll just print a copy of my FAVORITE HOT CHICK just for me >:D
scofthe7seas:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on July 15, 2011, 04:47:05 pm ---i imagine they dumbed it down for the average viewer. no big deal.
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Check out the response video posted by the presenter of the video!
And frozen hot-chick statue = creepy. :D
Gray_Area:
The ultimate point of this technological trend is to remove the need for tools. Plug and Play everything, at first. Eventually, stuff that repairs itself in, at least, a similar manner as your body does.
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: djm858 on July 15, 2011, 10:11:34 am ---He's not saying it's impossible for a human to figure out a wrench without x-ray, he's talking about software that only uses a surface scanner as input. When I watched this vid (with no sound cause I'm at work) I knew they had to have left out some step because the scanner couldn't possibly replicate that wrench in full working order. It can't "see" the details of the thumb screw nor infer logically how it interacts to widen the mouth.
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Exactly. It was just edited for television time restraint purposes. Obviously the wrench that they DID print "works". No way they could just slap a wrench up there, scan it, and print it. What would need done is the wrench would have needed disassembled, each individual part scanned, and then reconstructed in the software to allow for fitment tolerances, etc, etc..... THEN they could print it out as one functional piece. So the total process for a piece with moving parts obviously would take much longer from beginning to end result.
Like several have said already, it's a surface scanner, not an X-Ray. ::)
Still very cool..... :cheers:
SuprSprint:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on July 18, 2011, 08:54:18 pm ---Eventually, stuff that repairs itself in, at least, a similar manner as your body does.
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That will never happen. Totally messes up the whole planned obsolescence thing....
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