Posted on 12/28/2014 4:04:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You start with animals, and then it progresses to humans. It’s all in the normal progression of things like this.
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Maybe they can produce prosthetic spines for the GOP leadership
“Can anybody out there print me up a high volume high velocity intake for a GM 3800 series ii? Thanks in advance.”
Yes. Right now, the cost would be about $100,000.
Fortunately, the price is dropping rapidly.
It should be down to $500 in 12 years.
Now that would be revolutionary.
OK but...is there something lacking in the way prosthetics for dogs are currently manufactured?
I really wouldn’t know, but just understand what is going on in general terms. I would say that there is probably nothing wrong with them today ... and that, in the long run, something like this will make it cheaper and also able to be distributed a whole lot faster, as there doesn’t have to be a central manufacturing point. It would be a whole lot less labor intensive, too.
I recently purchased a Lulzbot Taz 4 3d printer and am learning to use it. I’m also learning to use a CAD program called, “1-2-3D Design” by AutoCAD that’s free.
I’m enjoying it immensely. I’ve just finished designing a pendant for an Eritrean gal I work with and am going to print it now.
Last time I had my teeth cleaned, I saw a new machine sitting on a storage cabinet kind of in the hall way. I thought I knew what it was, but asked anyway. They said it made crowns, it was a 3D printer. https://hbr.org/2014/10/my-dentist-3d-printed-my-crown/
I don’t like printed 3D clothes. now, if one could get
custom laser cut pieces to sew ...
Petrochemicals, powdered metals, cheap plastic filament, various basic chemicals, graphene, carbon, and plain old sand will within a decade be items people buy in bulk at places like WalMart and Costco. These and a few more will be used to make stuff at home with their 3D printers/assemblers.
The biological 3D printing items will be better made where they can be used...in a clinical setting.
Pharmaceuticals will be able to be made at home from basic materials... I do not see any way they will be able to control this since the machines that will be able to make them will be themselves printable by other machines and the materials they will use will be standard items used for many other purposes. An advanced desktop assembler will, among other things, be a programmable chemical factory.
They may try to lock them down the same way they forced printer manufacturers to recognize when someone is attempting to copy currency but that won’t work in a world where people manufacture their own machines.
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