Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
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HOW MUCH IS FREEREPUBLIC WORTH TO YOU?
If you read FR a lot like me, would it shock you to wake tomorrow and not be able to read it?
I’m talking to the members, but I am also talking to those who have not signed in.
I can access FR from work, but I cannot log in.
I can see the breaking news, see the responses and corrections.
I can see silly posts and zots.
I can see my FRiends talking with each other.
When I get home, I can respond and post and interact.
If you are not a FReeper, you can still donate. Just push the button.
$5.00 is perfectly acceptable.
Couldn’t I buy a 3D printer and then print 3D printers to sell at a cheaper price?
bflr
60 bucks materials and $5k in labor or $2500 for a finished machine?
bump for later
I don’t think I get this 3D printer thingy. I picturing something from The Jetsons where you push a button and a steak and a beer appear. Or chicolate.
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The best thing about 3d printers is the boost it has given to kids learning useful things. It’s almost like back in the days of science fairs.
3D printing will eventually take its place among the other manufacturing processes, but it is no going to replace them significantly, except in a few niches such as prototyping. You can mold a part in a fraction of a second; printing can take hours. The technology may take off in the micro manufacturing realm, dentistry and medicine, etc.
There are fifty year old pictures predicting 3d printing of habitat structures on the Moon...
Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
Is there anything reasonably priced in the market that can print a plastic object with very smooth outside surfaces, the way a part would come out of an injection mold?
WOW!