[saiberfun]

Hey guys,

What's your opinion on these 3D Printers that they are talking about on the news and stuff?

Don't you think it would be cool if you could print out old gtasa models at home in some years or something.
Haha, imagine have your favoritecar from GTA SA as a model at home easily.

http://reviews.cnet.com/printers/3d-...html?ttag=fbwp

[Grim_]

$2,499 for a print out of a GTA SA character - No Thanks!

[saiberfun]

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Originally Posted by Grim_ $2,499 for a print out of a GTA SA character - No Thanks!

Hehe, talking about how it might be cheap enough some time to have it actually at home for a rather fairprice.

[Hiddos]

I like the idea of it somewhat, but I do think that IF a time comes when we can print machinery and our own hardware piracy will be hitting a completely new level

[saiberfun]

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Originally Posted by Hiddos I like the idea of it somewhat, but I do think that IF a time comes when we can print machinery and our own hardware piracy will be hitting a completely new level

This makes me think about what piracy you might mean.
I don't think that it ever will be such a good quality that you could recreate furniture or plastic tools(beside spoons or other little stuff) with it. O_o

[Hiddos]

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Originally Posted by saiberfun This makes me think about what piracy you might mean. I don't think that it ever will be such a good quality that you could recreate furniture or plastic tools(beside spoons or other little stuff) with it. O_o

Piracy as in web shops offering downloads for 3D printers, then the data for the 3D print getting uploaded onto Warez sites allowing people to print out objects without needing to pay for it, just as much with normal piracy.

Edit: On the other sites, the usage of 3D printers can be an advantage to web shops too, as they don't need to stock up on items and control shipping, instead the consumer directly gets his stuff

[Haydn]

I WANT ONE. Too bad they cost so much.

[Mauzen]

Sure, the piracy arguement. In the same way normal printers are dangerous too: you can print out costy images or books instead of buying them. But sure, theres a catch, its a difference if you read a bunch of papers, or in a well glued and bound book.
3D printers commonly "print" either by cutting small layers of plastic and glueing them together, or by cutting a form directly into a block of plastic. With that you can print mostly static things, like figures, or simple mechanisms. Some guys even printed a working and probably lethal all-plastic gun. And theres a printer that can even reproduce itself; at least its plastic case and some mechanics. But again, you wont reach the quality of industrial cast plastic.
The problem with current 3d printing techniques is that they are all limited to a certain material. The famous example of downloading and printing out a shoe is purely utopian. Creating those complex compounds of all kinds of different material needs a completely different printing technique (and thats not just a difference like monochrome and colour printing) And even then it will be a lot of work to gather and prepare all materials, unless someone invents a star trek like material synthetisation, that magically creates any kind of material by pressing a button.
All that 3D piracy panic is really exaggerated imo.

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Originally Posted by Haydn I WANT ONE. Too bad they cost so much.

Build one
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX1cO2XhMrg[/ame]

[saiberfun]

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Originally Posted by Mauzen Sure, the piracy arguement. In the same way normal printers are dangerous too: you can print out costy images or books instead of buying them. But sure, theres a catch, its a difference if you read a bunch of papers, or in a well glued and bound book. 3D printers commonly "print" either by cutting small layers of plastic and glueing them together, or by cutting a form directly into a block of plastic. With that you can print mostly static things, like figures, or simple mechanisms. Some guys even printed a working and probably lethal all-plastic gun. And theres a printer that can even reproduce itself; at least its plastic case and some mechanics. But again, you wont reach the quality of industrial cast plastic. The problem with current 3d printing techniques is that they are all limited to a certain material. The famous example of downloading and printing out a shoe is purely utopian. Creating those complex compounds of all kinds of different material needs a completely different printing technique (and thats not just a difference like monochrome and colour printing) And even then it will be a lot of work to gather and prepare all materials, unless someone invents a star trek like material synthetisation, that magically creates any kind of material by pressing a button. All that 3D piracy panic is really exaggerated imo.

Exactly what I thought^^

[R@f]

A friend has a 3D printer at his Hackerspace. He did those things :






He even did a case for his Raspberry Pi


Here's the wikipage on his website about the printer : https://fixme.ch/wiki/Ultimaker