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> Just look around you: Where do you see bigger than 300mm^3 (around the maximum size of common FDM printers) plastic objects? Barely any. I wonder if that's a
by bigiain 6y ago
> Just look around you: Where do you see bigger than 300mm^3 (around the maximum size of common FDM printers) plastic objects? Barely any.
I wonder if that's a effect or a cause though?
There were barely any cars on the road in 1900. There were very few super computers in people's pockets in 2000.
I know literally 3 or 4 people who'd jump at the chance to use one of these to print model glider wings (or at least moulds for them). There might be several hundred or even _thousand_ potential customers for that around the world ;-)
I can't think for any actual real world useful use cases for this, but I'm somewhat hesitant to use the "but nobody has the kind of thing this makes possible now" argument against them... I am highly aware of my lack of imagination and my innate ability to go "Well, yeah, that's obvious!" after someone with a way better imagination than me does something creative with new tech...