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only when they start printing ICs
by b00ty4breakfast 8mo ago
only when they start printing ICs
- 0x457 8mo agoWell, you can print out of conductive materials.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoTrying to restrict the non-printed ICs you'd connect to your 3D printed parts would be even dumber. There's a zillion things that can slam out bits and control a stepper motor.
- b00ty4breakfast 8mo agoyou can build a 3d printer out of general-purpose electronic bits, anything they tried to ban would send ripples into countless other industries that are completely unrelated to each other or 3d printing. By "general-purpose" I mean that there's no components that are 3d-printer specific; motor controllers and microcontrollers and voltage regulators and all the various jellybean parts. And even if there were any, they could easily be replaced with general-purpose components.