If Jay Leno has one, and Xmas is coming, then start begging for this one! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...ss-a-button-and-make-anything/article1787833/
This is really cool technology. This was highlighted (in a different way) on "Car Crazy" a couple weeks ago. It's only a matter of time before many things we use daily are created this way. We'll be "printing" our own toasters for the kitchen pretty soon - at least the cosmetic outside shell...
Sorry, but this is decades old technology. Stereolithography machines have been around in commercial use since at least the mid-1980s. The latest technology is powdered metal sintering, which allows you to "print" metal parts instead of plastic ones.
Yes, Joe, you are right, excepting that given folks like me, who are still kinda living in the fifties and sixties tool wise, are so way behind the times that this set up looks like waaaay in the future
didn't they have something kinda like this on one of the Jurassic Park sequals??? think they made a 3d print of a velociraptor voice canal?
After I make my Zorro hood ornament and nameplates. I remember when we were shopping around for an AutoCAD D-size printer (Engineering stuff), they were around $4,000 or $5,000 in 1986. I can only imagine one of those 3D jobbies. Maybe I'll still to kitchen table vacuum forming.
