Try not to stay too busy! :)
Decades ago I used to cut up my plastic army figures, melt them with a solder gun and form the plastic into parts for my model cars, trains and planes.
Didn't work well, often caught fire and the fumes were acrid and dangerous.
Maybe that's why I can't get fired up over 3D printing.
Try not to stay too busy! :)
I want one.
NOW
A robotic arm that learns by positioning it
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20131113-make-your-own-3d-printed-trainable-robotic-arm.html
I have seen this before and printing in thin air sounds kind of hard. But yesterday morning I woke up and this thought hit me, what if I had that robotic arm and painted a carousel pony. I could recreate that pony with a 3d printer. You would paint the pony with the arm for the learning process, remove the pony and have the printer paint it again without the pony, but this time the printer would be recreating the pony.
I’m going to build one. Radio Shack is selling Arduino boards and I think our future is in automation. Personal, home or strip mall manufacturing is going to become common.
I thought that if I advertised for printing in 3D that it would be like a virtual Kinkos where I could do some architectural plans in Los Angeles and have them printed localy in Little Rock Arkansas. I wanted to be one of the 3D printers, similar to a 2d Kinkos.
It didn’t work out that way. Yesterday I had an order from New Zealand and another one from Canada. Apparently 3D printing is still in its infancy if a guy from New Zealand orders from a guy from Los Angeles. It is so easy, I Slice it and hit print then take the parts to FedEx.
I’m not stuck on 3D printing, I’m stuck on Arduino. I think this is where our immediate future is.
From the website, this is not a printer. It’s a pen.
It is not a printer, 3D or otherwise.
Thanks for the link, This is fun, I’ve been involved in everything since the early 1970s. I love technology.