3D Printing

[Big Fat Sam]

3D printing is as exciting as it is dangerous imo.

 

[Fuleco]

Only if you have a custom built monster 3d printer that was massively more expensive than just buying a car, and you need to still build most of the vehicle using standard materials.

I suspect the vehicles pictured above are only partly printed, most of it will still be manufactured still due to the relatively low strength of available printable objects.

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/edag-3-d-printed-car/
http://www.maplin.co.uk/velleman

Your home printer whilst quite big can make can still make some cool stuff.
Like this lot for example:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/3d-printings/

So you couldn't just buy a massive printer and start your own car manufacturing business, shame.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Oh hello

 

[Groucho]

woulda thought the working prosthetics and heart valves etc would amaze you more

To be honest it all fascinates me.

 

[rascal]

Heard a story the other day on the radio about a 3d printer being utilized to make a prosthetic hand for a young child. Cost about $150 compared to thousands and thousands. Must admit got choked up when the parents were interviewed and explained the benefit. For children, it's tough because they are growing and will need many prostheses before reaching adulthood.

It's this sort of development which makes me confident that one day I will have a real life clone of Natalie Portman.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Could we 3D print Lukaku? Would save a fortune like

 

[toffyslick]

im sure you can only use a piss poor plastic and not the better grades of plastic i.e H.D.P.E & acetal,once they figure how to use them & metals is will be a game changer in engineering.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

How much are the refills? They always sting you on the refills...

 

[Brennan]

im sure you can only use a piss poor plastic and not the better grades of plastic i.e H.D.P.E & acetal,once they figure how to use them & metals is will be a game changer in engineering.

You can 3D print in acetal.

 

[rascal]

3d printing cell biology is what really excites me.

In future it may be possible to 3d print Natalie Portman.

 

[toffyslick]

Ii really could do with a 3d printer at work,be handy for prototypes and thanks for the info brennan,did not know u could use acetal.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/3d-printed-device-detoxifies-blood-liver

 

[Groucho]

Please, for @Morag, could someone explain this 3D printing lark like like we're primary school students please?

Especially with this current advert of "Build Your Own 3D Printer" magazine that's sure to be a total rip off.

AND, if you put ink into a 2D printer, what's in a 3D printer?

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

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Please, for @Morag, could someone explain this 3D printing lark like like we're primary school students please?

Especially with this current advert of "Build Your Own 3D Printer" magazine that's sure to be a total rip off.

AND, if you put ink into a 2D printer, what's in a 3D printer?

whatever the part is going to be made of, they are advancing to be able to use different materials, your 'basic' ones though will be some kind of plastic that solidifies, a kind of resin and the lasers make it go from liquid to solid wherever the lasers meet.
It used to be called Stereo Lithography, there was another kind where instead of a resin the 'platic' was in very fine particles like dust that were blown around inside the print chamber as opposed to being a 'Liquid' but again it's where the lasers in 2 axis meet the particles solidify.