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It’s a gimmick. There is no point other than marketing.

FrustratedMonky 2y ago
"It’s a gimmick" Early attempts always look gimmicki. Putting a camera in a phone, crazy, who needs it, just a gimmick. I use my phone to dial numbers and make calls. This looks like it has a lot of room to grow and adapt. Materials change. Just look at how 3d printers have changed in 10 years.
- ibash 2y ago
  3d printers haven’t changed that much… they’ve gotten easier to use, sure, but the materials and quality we’re printing is about the same as 10 years ago.
  - FrustratedMonky 2y ago
    Maybe it was 20? I just remember they took expense fluids, hard to keep, fragile. Then month ago I was in a Micro Center, and there were dozens of very fancy printers that could take dozens of types of line feeds.
  - 6SixTy 2y ago
    Feels like 3D printers have changed. A slicer from 10 years ago is not going to generate as good a print as one from today. And it feels like the variety of filaments from 10 years ago has greatly changed.
  - bhhaskin 2y ago
    3d printers have changed significantly. They used to be very finicky and hard to get a decent print. Lots of tweaking and it was different for every printer. They have evolved into true click and forget machines.
  - postalrat 2y ago
    I tear apart medical and other machines to recycle parts. I do often see 3d printed parts inside commercial machines, probably because they are making so few of them and it's more economical to just print a couple specialized parts.
    - jdeibele 2y ago
      How can you tell that they're 3d printed? Because they don't have a part number or the manufacturer's name and logo on them? I don't have a 3d printer myself so maybe it'd be obvious if I printed some.
      - robgibbons 2y ago
        Most 3D printed parts have a telltale texture resulting from the layer-by-layer deposit of material. The same goes for many milled/CNCed parts bearing evidence of tool marks. Once you've seen and held enough, it's relatively easy to identify whether a given part was printed, cast, milled, lathed, etc. I say most because there are finishing methods which can largely obscure these details and make it less obvious as to which method produced a given part.
      - postalrat 2y ago
        They had the layer lines you see on FDM prints.
- lm28469 2y ago
  Survivor bias helps a lot here. For every thing that sticks you have thousands of absolute flops that we all forget very quickly
  - FrustratedMonky 2y ago
    That is true. When I look at 3d printing advancements, I have hard time not thinking that with scaled up to houses, they wont have similar advancements, with time and resources. Kind of like Steam Engines. After the Steam Engine was invented, it took many decades to dial it in to the large 'more' efficient models we are familiar with. It seems like large 3d printing will take a similar time period to grow to industrial levels. Even the Iphone, wasn't that great at the beginning. Maybe my overall point. They have made an entire neighborhood with a 3d printer. That seems to be now over the hump of proof of concept, and now there can be steady improvements.
ashoeafoot 2y ago
You coulx print a thermite mound like passive cooking system into the house?

"It’s a gimmick" Early attempts always look gimmicki. Putting a camera in a phone, crazy, who needs it, just a gimmick. I use my phone to dial numbers and make calls. This looks like it has a lot of room to grow and adapt. Materials change. Just look at how 3d printers have changed in 10 years.

ibash 2y ago
3d printers haven’t changed that much… they’ve gotten easier to use, sure, but the materials and quality we’re printing is about the same as 10 years ago.
- FrustratedMonky 2y ago
  Maybe it was 20? I just remember they took expense fluids, hard to keep, fragile. Then month ago I was in a Micro Center, and there were dozens of very fancy printers that could take dozens of types of line feeds.
- 6SixTy 2y ago
  Feels like 3D printers have changed. A slicer from 10 years ago is not going to generate as good a print as one from today. And it feels like the variety of filaments from 10 years ago has greatly changed.
- bhhaskin 2y ago
  3d printers have changed significantly. They used to be very finicky and hard to get a decent print. Lots of tweaking and it was different for every printer. They have evolved into true click and forget machines.
- postalrat 2y ago
  I tear apart medical and other machines to recycle parts. I do often see 3d printed parts inside commercial machines, probably because they are making so few of them and it's more economical to just print a couple specialized parts.
  - jdeibele 2y ago
    How can you tell that they're 3d printed? Because they don't have a part number or the manufacturer's name and logo on them? I don't have a 3d printer myself so maybe it'd be obvious if I printed some.
    - robgibbons 2y ago
      Most 3D printed parts have a telltale texture resulting from the layer-by-layer deposit of material. The same goes for many milled/CNCed parts bearing evidence of tool marks. Once you've seen and held enough, it's relatively easy to identify whether a given part was printed, cast, milled, lathed, etc. I say most because there are finishing methods which can largely obscure these details and make it less obvious as to which method produced a given part.
    - postalrat 2y ago
      They had the layer lines you see on FDM prints.
lm28469 2y ago
Survivor bias helps a lot here. For every thing that sticks you have thousands of absolute flops that we all forget very quickly
- FrustratedMonky 2y ago
  That is true. When I look at 3d printing advancements, I have hard time not thinking that with scaled up to houses, they wont have similar advancements, with time and resources. Kind of like Steam Engines. After the Steam Engine was invented, it took many decades to dial it in to the large 'more' efficient models we are familiar with. It seems like large 3d printing will take a similar time period to grow to industrial levels. Even the Iphone, wasn't that great at the beginning. Maybe my overall point. They have made an entire neighborhood with a 3d printer. That seems to be now over the hump of proof of concept, and now there can be steady improvements.

ashoeafoot 2y ago

You coulx print a thermite mound like passive cooking system into the house?