Posted on 01/12/2019 8:56:21 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
When you walk around a Maker Faire, you’re likely to see a wide variety of 3D printers, though if you look at the basic construction, you’ll find there are usually only two main types on people’s tables. There are cartesian (with a gantry at right angles) and delta (the ones with three arms holding the print head). Sure, there are a few others that appear from time to time, but these two dominate the landscape. Cel-Robox has teamed up with M-Solv to create a new entity called Q5D Technologies to push new manufacturing technologies, such as this one that caught my eye: a 5 axis 3D printer.
Having a 3D printer that can print not only on X, Y, and Z, coordinates but also adjust the angle of the extruder can be extremely useful. For example, as you can see in the video above, they can print directly onto irregular surfaces. They’re still exploring this technology and finding ways that the added functionality can help in manufacturing, so keep an eye on them, as you’re bound to see some more interesting stuff coming.
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Five Dimensional printers will transcend time and space. There will be no limits. The Five Axis ones are cool too.
LOL...zing! I’d blame the author or headline writer, but I repeated it!
I want the ones that print in string theory compliant 12 or 26 dimensions.
I want mine to be Quantum Entangled
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The problem with the Quantum Printers is that if you know the job is done, you don't know where the object is.
OTOH, you can print a cat inside a box.
It won’t be long before these things are printing Trump’s chessboards.
But how do it know...
OTOH, you can print a cat inside a box.
Of course you still can’t know if it will
be alive or dead until you open it.
Oh I know where it is, I just don't when it is.
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