3d Printing Primer
3D printing is an extremely wide topic. With this tree I am trying to gather a small amount of what the technology is, how it is being used, and how it can change people's lives. Jul 30
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WHAT could well be the next great technological disruption is fermenting away, out of sight, in small workshops, college labs, garages and basements. Tinkerers with machines that turn binary digits into molecules are pioneering a whole new way of making things—one that could well rewrite the rules of manufacturing in much the same way as the PC trashed the traditional world of computing. The machines, called 3D printers, have existed in industry for years. But at a cost of $100,000 to $1m, few individuals could ever afford one. Fortunately, like everything digital, their price has fallen. So much so, industrial 3D printers can now be had for $15,000, and home versions for little more than $1,000 (or half that in kit form).
3D printing: Difference Engine: The PC all over again?
Feb. 26, 2007 Low-cost, home-built 3-D printer could launch a revolution, say Cornell engineers The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop computer revolution. Hod Lipson, Cornell assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, thinks a little machine he calls a Fab@Home may have the same impact. Some day, Lipson believes, every home will have a "fabber," a machine that replicates objects from plans supplied by a computer.
'Fabbers' could launch a revolution
What is 3D printing? A beginner’s guide to the desktop factory
Deep in a sub-basement of the GM world headquarters, dozens of high-tech machines emit a soft whirring sound. In a sandy liquid, as an arm passes quickly overhead while a model slowly emerges. It’s the side-mirror of a new concept vehicle with a place to insert the mirror and bolt the part into place.
3D printing – An ‘Industrial Revolution in the Digital Age’? | Epicenter
<img class=" alignright" src="http://cdni.wired.co.uk/620x413/a_c/2987747274_4fa00fafba_z.jpeg" alt="" width="372" height="248" /> LONDON – As the fondue pots are cleared away, a sudden buzz ripples through the crowd packed into Val d’Isere’s Sur La Montagne restaurant. The room is heaving with 40 or so hard-living internet entrepreneurs and VC s here for a weekend of power-networking, skiing and après-ski partying — but all at once it’s a polished steel bracelet chain and a 2cm polyamide nylon sculpture that have captured the restaurant’s attention. Designed on computer screens and then built layer by layer in industrial 3D printing machines , these intricate trinkets are eliciting all the head-turning excitement of a Maserati roaring along La Croisette during the Cannes Film Festival .
3D Printing: Bringing Fantasy to Reality
Times are changing and with time definitions of needs are also changing. There were times when necessities were few, with all other things falling into the comfort or luxury zone. With technological advancements and easy availability many luxury items have shifted into the necessary and comfort zone. Take for example 3D printing technology. You see an object on screen and with the help of a 3D printer you can get the very same object without having to purchase it. It is true that 3D printers are not yet that popular but at the rate at which they are growing, it will not be long before every household also owns a piece.
NEWS: Come to the Inside 3D Printing event in New York City ! The event runs from April 22-23 2013. We have arranged for reprappers (that's you!)
Wiki
3D model slicing Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data. [ 1 ] Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printing technology. The first techniques for rapid prototyping became available in the late 1980s and were used to produce models and prototype parts. Today, they are used for a much wider range of applications and are even used to manufacture production-quality parts in relatively small numbers. Some sculptors use the technology to produce exhibitions .
Rapid prototyping
An ORDbot Quantum 3D printer Timelapse video of a hyperboloid object print (made of PLA ) using a RepRap "Prusa Mendel" 3D printer for molten polymer deposition Additive manufacturing or 3D printing [ 1 ] is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model . 3D printing is achieved using an additive process , where successive layers of material are laid down in different shapes. [ 2 ] 3D printing is considered distinct from traditional machining techniques, which mostly rely on the removal of material by methods such as cutting or drilling ( subtractive processes). A materials printer usually performs 3D printing processes using digital technology. Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been a large growth in the sales of these machines, and their price has dropped substantially. [ 3 ]
