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3D Printing Redux -- You can't build this one at home.
01-28-2013, 09:53 PM
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D-Shape - the 3D printer that makes buildings.
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Nope, but you could use it to BUILD your home! *play rimshot.mp3*
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01-29-2013, 06:31 AM
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Rimshot
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02-15-2013, 09:07 PM
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And when you're done building a home with your 3-D printer, build someone to live in it.
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Going to the other extreme - 3Doodler. "It's a pen that can draw in the air!"
Link is to the Kickstarter, currently at $2,109,866 pledged of $30,000 goal with 18 days remaining. Pledge $75 and they'll ship you one once it's made sometime in the next 12 months.
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Poke, poke. Ended up talking about this thread and its predecessor with a coworker, and I decided to see what if anything people have to offer after 9 months.
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Well, Printrbot's got a printer right at the $299 price point, even if it's DIY and the filament is expensive:
The Printrbot Simple
Already Assembled is another $100.
Make Zine keeps saying that if you use PLA filament, get a fan on the build table during printing to improve quality.
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New day, new post:
This guy is 3d-printing a car. Full-size. Well, okay, he's 3-d printing the mold plug for a fiberglass body shell, but still!
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Foxboy Wrote:New day, new post:
This guy is 3d-printing a car. Full-size. Well, okay, he's 3-d printing the mold plug for a fiberglass body shell, but still! http://www.overclockers.com.au/pic.php? ... y13/14.jpg
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Wow, nice.
I wonder... hmm. If you had nothing else of a car but the blueprints and an existing model for reference - like some ultra-rare thing like The 48 Tucker - could you start bringing back stuff like that and "printing" out copies eventually?
This has interesting implications for a lot of things actually.
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