3D printing and fabrication: Open source hardware 2009 – The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009. Part of The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009 3D printing – Open source hardware is now making things. Physical things you can print out, over the last few year 2-3 projects have really gained momentum and made some wonderful advances in low-cost desktop 3D printing.
Projects include Fab@Home, MakerBot and RepRap. A new project was also added this year, s DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication. Contraptor Contraptor is a DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication, desktop manufacturing, prototyping and bootstrapping.Price: See siteVisit project page Fab@Home Fab@Home is a project dedicated to making and using fabbers – machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop.
MakerBeam MakerBeam is a project to build a toy and tool for the open source imagination. MakerBot MakerBot is an affordable, open source 3D printer. RepRap RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. Phillip Torrone Related. 3D printing: The printed world. 3D Printing in the Classroom » Liz Arum's Blog. 3D Printing. You are in: Future Technologies : 3D Printing 3D Printing Imagine a future in which a device connected to a computer can print a solid object.
A future in which we can have tangible goods as well as intangible services delivered to our desktops or highstreet shops over the Internet. And a future in which the everyday "atomization" of virtual objects into hard reality has turned the mass pre-production and stock-holding of a wide range of goods and spare parts into no more than an historical legacy. Such a future may sound like it is being plucked from the worlds of Star Trek. The following provides an overview of 3D printing technologies and their present and likely future application. Current Technologies 3D printing is an additive technology in which objects are built up in a great many very thin layers. Another 3D printing technology based on the selective solidification of a tank of liquid -- or 'vat polymerization' -- is DLP projection. Commercial 3D Printers and Online Services.