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When reading that I felt like I was back in the early 1990s when "desktop publishing" was the big thing and people bragged about having colour or high resolutio
by dhughes 14y ago
When reading that I felt like I was back in the early 1990s when "desktop publishing" was the big thing and people bragged about having colour or high resolution printers.
It's going to be interesting to see how this evolves, will we all have buckets of printing sand next to our computers for our 3D printers?
- simcop2387 14y agoOdds are it looks like it'll be either a spool of printing cable (PLA, ABS, Nylon, etc.) that you'll print with, or it'll be like you buy motor oil (UV Reactive polymers). These are FDM (reprap and the like) and SLA [1] techniques for 3D printing. So far the SLS (using a powder or sand) seems to be stuck in the very high commercial range though it can be the most useful, it requires far less fiddling with to get things to print out regardless of their shape like a reprap does, and can get very good material reuse like SLA does since unused material is just kept in the same state. It can also do one of the more fun things, combine SLS and an inkjet printer and you can color the object you're printing just like a normal printer [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereolithography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereolithography [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP25fKsN0Io http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP25fKsN0Io