Maya. New Orleans French Quarter History, Architecture and Pictures. Downloading Designs: Home 3D Printing Coming Soon (TreeHugger) Jamie Rector for The New York Times Bill Gross of IdeaLab is at it again, and will soon be selling the Desktop Factory. In a disgraceful example of verbing, he said "We are Easy-Bake Ovening a 3-D model," he said. "The really powerful thing about this idea is that the fundamental engineering allows us to make it for $300 in materials.
" Some of the uses envisioned are useful: "IdeaLab hopes companies will sell three-dimensional designs over the Internet. Now the technology can only do simple, solid plastic forms, but Cornell University has made a machine that can print out in silicone, plaster, Cheez Whiz and Play-Doh. Professor Lipson said researchers are developing ways to use the process to build parts with more complex functions.
"A milestone for us would be to print a robot that would get up and walk out of the printer," Professor Lipson said. Index of /Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLPages. Category:Sculpted Prims.