Ok, so it prints, but can it learn to do cursive?
I’ll know 3-D printing has become an important part of everyday life when the government starts talking about regulating all aspects of it. I don’t think we are very far from that point now. Maybe within the next six years, the type of ‘ink’ used will be strictly regulated, especially the kind used to produce weapons. Not now, but soon, after the prices fall for these handy ‘thing makers’.
The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/23/the-end-of-chinese-manufacturing-and-rebirth-of-u-s-industry/
Even if the Chinese automate their factories with AI-powered robots and manufacture 3D printers, it will no longer make sense to ship raw materials all the way to China to have them assembled into finished products and shipped back to the U.S. Manufacturing will once again become a local industry with products being manufactured near raw materials or markets.
So China has many reasons to worry, and manufacturing will undoubtedly return to the U.S.—if not in this decade then early in the next. But the same jobs that left the U.S. won’t come back: they won’t exist. What will the new jobs be? We can only guess. Autodesk CEO Carl Bass says that just as we have created new, higher-paying jobs in every other industrial transition, we will create a new set of industries and professions in this one. Look at the new types of jobs and multi-billion dollar businesses that the Internet and mobile industries created—these came out of nowhere and changed our lives, Bass says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZ2BgPVtA0
3D-Printed “Magic Arms”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3772yhr0o
MakerBot and Robohand | 3D Printing Mechanical Hands
3-D Printing Will Change the World
https://hbr.org/2013/03/3-d-printing-will-change-the-world
It seems that the United States and other Western countries, almost in spite of themselves, will pull off the old judo technique of exploiting a competitor’s lack of balance and making its own massive weight instrumental in its fall.
China won’t be a loser in the new era; like every nation, it will have a domestic market to serve on a local basis, and its domestic market is huge. And not all products lend themselves to 3-D printing. But China will have to give up on being the mass-manufacturing powerhouse of the world. The strategy that has given it such political heft won’t serve it in the future.
The great transfer of wealth and jobs to the East over the past two decades may have seemed a decisive tipping point. But this new technology will change again how the world leans.
Can anybody out there print me up a high volume high velocity intake for a GM 3800 series ii? Thanks in advance.
This is clearly going to revolutionize the world.
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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/
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.