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It's just too early. I think we will see a 3D printing revolution but you need to be able to do useful stuff with the printers. A good use case would be anythi
by Taek 10y ago
It's just too early. I think we will see a 3D printing revolution but you need to be able to do useful stuff with the printers.
A good use case would be anything that's usually mass produced but actually benefits from high customization. Like clothes. If you could 3D print clothes, you might have a market. Or cables (electrical, Ethernet, etc.) that are an exact length. Or perhaps things like toothbrushes, or contact lenses.
The technology isn't very close to that yet. But if it keeps improving, there's a good chance that we really will end up with a 3D printer in every home.
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- danmaz74 10y agoEthernet cables and (quality) clothes have to be assembled, not printed. And you need very specific materials to start with. Not realistic examples imho.
- andrewflnr 10y agoThere are sewing robots. I don't know if they go as far as cutting the fabric for themselves.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoWell, there would be a revolution if you could buy a robot that would take fabric and a CAD design as input, and gave you ready-to-wear dress as an output. Without that, it's "meh, faster to go to a store" situation.
- analognoise 10y agoCabling is actually serious business; from an electrical standpoint, there is impedance matching, delay matching, cable shielding for EMI/C, etc. Then the connector itself has a slew of mechanical requirements: mate/demate cycles, tolerances, thermal. Then it all needs to be made for a reasonable price - there are entire groups of engineers that band together to produce specifications so that things like Ethernet cables can exist and give the performance that people need, while being interoperable.