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There are 3D printers for metal, but they're expensive, and don't do this:
OriginalGriff wrote: colours, textures, and "flexibility" can be manufactured in instead of just "almost hard" and "nothing". But they can make some useful things, not just abstract art and unusual lego parts.
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To be useful as a home printer, they need to be able to make a spanner that can undo "that nut right there" (like the one between the cylinders of a Norton Commando), or something that has conductors and insulators, switches, clear patches for LEDs, small matrix keyboards...
At the moment, they are a gimmick like the first home printers were (noisy, slow, poor quality output - you remember what early dot matrix jobbies were like).
Their time will come - but they just aren't there yet.
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For the average person, they are kind of a gimmick. I have worked with them personally (although it was a terrible printer from a terrible company) and I loved the thing. I was able to make quick fabrications (rather than sending them off to be physically made, which could take weeks to get it sent over). The price range is just still too much for the quality, but I can't wait till I can have one to use at home for random things.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I can't - at the moment - see any reason why I'd want or need a current-generation 3D printer.
Unless of course you need a new car[^]
veni bibi saltavi
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A couple of things here:
1) I can't afford its fuel consumption.
2) It'd be a bugger to park at Tescos.
3) No room for the shopping.
4) No room for Herself (which may be counted as an advantage from time to time, I'll admit).
5) There may be a few small components there that they didn't 3D print.
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If you have a dual-head extruder, you can do hard and flexible printing in the same object. For an example, check out some of the stuff James at xrobots.co.uk[^] does with a combination of ABS and ninjaflex. With multi-head extruders, you can do different colors in the same print too.
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Cool device, but I'm like you I'll never own one...I'm so broke I can't even pay attention!
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
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When you get your first 3D printer, and if it can print body parts, I will be your first customer. Some of these 71 year old bones are creaking so much, they should be replaced!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Looks cool, but I'm saving up for a Replicator (ala Star Trek)...
Will Rogers never met me.
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When they will cost substantially less and the printing materials too, I'll buy one. I'll just wait for a easy 3D designing tool (I'm no designer nor artist) because I'd like to make my own miniatrues for D&D games - the original ones suck a lot, not even one gets close to my idea of what the PG should be.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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BillWoodruff wrote: So, perhaps it is the prerogative of being older (but not wiser) to yawn, and say: "Here comes a future I can't imagine I need" ?
That really is compelling technology Bill but, like you, I don't see what I'd use it for. I can see how someone who is inclined toward doing crafts might want one, though. I dunno; I've got a MacBook Pro here in my lab that could use a little embellishment! Think I ought to buy in so I can pretty it up?
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Your subject line shows your knowledge of the subject. It's a laser engraver/cutter not a 3d printer.
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Actually that's the nomenclature that the company itself used in the title of their promo video.
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Actually that's the nomenclature that the company itself used in the title of their video and website.
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I aint a clue
We canβt stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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You forgot the work "got" in there...
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Superfluous
We canβt stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well that's certainly true! Which some people might consider a bit of a drawback in a clue based contest.
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Inverse CCC π
We canβt stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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hmm.
But 1,4,1,4 isn't a clue for that answer!
The crossword clue
(6, 1,4)
answer "haven't a clue" is good because there is literally no clue and "haven't a clue" is a known phrase.
Ah well - I'm just grumpy cuz I din't get it!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Dusty molecular cloud. Nice
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Looks like god is trying to spell something...if only I could read it!
Marc
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They gazed at Godβs Final Message in wonderment, and were slowly and ineffably filled with a great sense of peace, and of final and complete understanding.
Fenchurch sighed. βYes,β she said, βthat was it.β
They had been staring at it for fully ten minutes before they became aware that Marvin, hanging between their shoulders, was in difficulties. The robot could no longer lift his head, had not read the message. They lifted his head, but he complained that his vision circuits had almost gone.
They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn, The first letter was a βwβ, the second an βeβ. Then there was a gap. An βaβ followed, then a βpβ, an βoβ and an βlβ.
Marvin paused for a rest.
After a few moments they resumed and let him see the βoβ, the βgβ, the βiβ, the βsβ and the βeβ.
The next two words were βforβ and βtheβ. The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another rest before he could tackle it.
It started with an βiβ, then βnβ then a βcβ. Next came an βoβ and an βnβ, followed by a βvβ, an βeβ, another βnβ and an βiβ.
After a final pause, Marvin gathered his strength for the last stretch.
He read the βeβ, the βnβ, the βcβ and at last the final βeβ, and staggered back into their arms.
βI think,β he murmured at last, from deep within his corroding rattling thorax, βI feel good about it.β
---DNA, "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"
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When Einstein invented his theory about space, was it about time too?
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