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Yes. http://makerschmitt.blogspot.com http://makerschmitt.blogspot.com I have actually used it for not just the toys/fun you see on the blog, but also some actual parts in my home that broke too. Yes, it's truly an early adopter's point, with pain, & costs, & trouble. Yes, you can order parts from shapeways.com & ponoko.com without having your own machine. But, this is truly magic, in that it brings mechanical iterations into the realm of software, with reduced cycle time. Before these things, as a mechanical engineer in the 90's, any iteration would be 2-4 weeks, & $2-4k, and now, I can do 3 iterations in one afternoon for <$2.00 of plastic. If you've studied other fields, you might know how radical a transformation reduced cycle times alone can make.