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I love the bit about the bat being 3D printed and then tested out by actual baseball players!!

• zachrose 12y ago
  Yeah that was interesting. I'm sort of curious what they were printed out of (plastic?) and how that's cheaper or better than just machining wood, or even machining a blank and rounding out the handle with and hand tools.
  • dagw 12y ago
    I'm guessing it's a question of iteration time rather than price. Printing out 20 bats where each bat has one parameter tweaked slightly, and then iterating based on feedback is probably a lot quicker and easier using 3D printers rather than wood blanks and hand tools.
    • dublinben 12y ago
      It would almost certainly be quicker to crank out a wooden prototype from a CNC lathe than to print one in plastic. A bat made out of ABS plastic isn't really going to work anyway, so it's not much of a prototype.