3D Replication Printers are here!!!

fishbones
fishbones Posts: 947
edited July 2011 in The Clubhouse
3D copy machines replicating actual funtioning tools, pretty awesome...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited July 2011
    Impressive, wow!!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    I'm sorry, I'm going to burst some bubbles here but that's not really "new". I was working with a 3D prototyping machine in engineering school at Drexel back in 1995. It was 2 years old at that point. One of the grad students was working different substrates to do exactly what they are talking about in that video.

    Maybe it's cheaper and more accessible now but it's at least 15 years old, maybe 20. It's still cool stuff and one step closer to the Replicators from Star Trek!
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited July 2011
    That is by far one of the cooler techs I've seen! How the hell.....:confused::confused:
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    Just saw this on Slashdot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14030720
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2011
    I don't understand why the thumb screw on the replica looks so different?

    We have one of those 3-D scanners here at work. But John is right, that tech has been around for a while. I think Jay Leno has one too that makes stuff out of ABS.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited July 2011
    Polk has something pretty similar to it in the factory that it uses to prototype stuff. seems pretty similar though the ones in the video come out in color, whereas as I believe Polk's doesnt.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    ohskigod wrote: »
    Polk has something pretty similar to it in the factory that it uses to prototype stuff. seems pretty similar though the ones in the video come out in color, whereas as I believe Polk's doesnt.

    Polk has the same one we used at Drexel. The only reason it comes out in that pale yellow/tan is because of the substrate used. If you used a colored substrate or set of colored substrates you could probably get any color you want like an inkjet or bubblejet printer.
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  • LessisNevermore
    LessisNevermore Posts: 1,519
    edited July 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    I'm sorry, I'm going to burst some bubbles here but that's not really "new". I was working with a 3D prototyping machine in engineering school at Drexel back in 1995. It was 2 years old at that point. One of the grad students was working different substrates to do exactly what they are talking about in that video.

    Maybe it's cheaper and more accessible now but it's at least 15 years old, maybe 20. It's still cool stuff and one step closer to the Replicators from Star Trek!

    Yep, I saw these rapid prototyping machines at the International Machine Tool trade show in Chicago, around '94, or so. Very cool. I also saw a demonstration of an 8 axis milling machine, capable of machining a complete sphere. (if there were a way to actually support the piece)
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited July 2011
    Can it enlarge? Reduce?
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited July 2011
    That is seriously cool!
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited July 2011
    I like that alot!:wink:
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2011
    That is pretty cool. I've seen this kind of demo before! I suppose the next step would be to bring on a truckload of Chemical and Mechanical Engineers and improve and diversify the primary materials and binders used. Then you'd pretty much be able to make almost anything to any specifications.

    I wonder what this means for American 'manufacturing' or its future? Another question is how much of the printer is or is not made here at home--possibly another problem?

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  • apphd
    apphd Posts: 1,514
    edited July 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    I don't understand why the thumb screw on the replica looks so different?

    We have one of those 3-D scanners here at work. But John is right, that tech has been around for a while. I think Jay Leno has one too that makes stuff out of ABS.
    -Cody

    +1 He has quite a car collection he has one in his garage for modeling parts for fabrication.

    http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/extras/articles/jay-lenos-3d-printer-replaces-rusty-old-parts-1/
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited July 2011
    Advanced DIY types can build their own:

    http://buildyourcnc.com/whiteAnt3DPrinterandCNCMachine.aspx

    Not quite as advanced, judging by the rising and setting of the sun in the video I'd suggest you plan on a solid fortnight when you make your 3"x5"x2.5" Thom York face mask.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    strider wrote: »
    Advanced DIY types can build their own:

    http://buildyourcnc.com/whiteAnt3DPrinterandCNCMachine.aspx

    Not quite as advanced, judging by the rising and setting of the sun in the video I'd suggest you plan on a solid fortnight when you make your 3"x5"x2.5" Thom York face mask.

    A friend of mine built a CNC machine for cutting vinyl stickers. He used an HP plotter printer mechanism and replaced the printer head with an X-acto knife head. The first couple of tires shredded the sticker but once he got it right, he printed out, well cut rather, an entire set of BP Racing livery for his Ford Focus. Looked convincingly real.

    Took about a month of cutting though and a rather soapy weekend with the two of us stretching car sized sheets out over his Focus and using plastic putty knives to remove air bubbles.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited July 2011
    ohskigod wrote: »
    Polk has something pretty similar to it in the factory that it uses to prototype stuff. seems pretty similar though the ones in the video come out in color, whereas as I believe Polk's doesnt.

    Correct. That's how they prototype parts during design and engineering.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited July 2011
    Man that machines gona put alot of chinese people outa work
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