Microtrends: Printing in 3D


	Microtrends: Printing in 3D

tfarrow

6-5-2007 9:57 AM

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tfarrow says:

Pretty interesting. I've seen this stuff before in the CAD/CAM world, but this article has links to info about building your own... Sounds like a good weekend project.

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Imagine a machine the size of a photocopier which fills up with a fine white
 powder. Once it’s finished, you fish around in the powder and pull out a
 solid plastic model of whatever was on your computer screen, in full colour.
 Three-dimensional printing is gradually, and rather expensively, approaching
 the mainstream.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1839765.ece"><B>The real thing:</B> If you’ve got $40,000, you can buy a Z Corp Z450 colour
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 at YouTube</A>, and here's the <A href="http://www.zcorp.com/">company home
 page</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1839765.ece"><B>The sugar printer:</B> Physicist and blogger <A href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/staticpages/index.php/AboutEMSL">Windell
 Oskay</A> got bored of waiting for an affordable 3D printer, so built his
 own. The <A href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab">Candyfab
 4000</A> uses three sacks of granulated sugar, an aquarium pump, a car jack
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