Wow, amazing stuff. Though I can very easily see how this would, by about 2020, be as hilarious as that 1980s gaming machine ad.

After some Googling, this gadget costs a little less than $40,000.

There's another thing to add to my 'when I'm rich' shopping list.

Some units should be under $5k this year. Not this fancy, but some that will do 5"x5"x5" stuff. Some article I was reading said that they will eventually be as common as regular printers are today in small businesses.

We've got a non-color one of these in the arch department. Relatively useful, but there's no way that thing could be in a regular office setting; dust everywhere! Makes me feel like a doctor dusting off the models in that little chamber, though.

i've never seen a color one. first thing i'd want to make... my butt.

I get to use these at school sometimes, not the powder sintering machines but the cheaper FDM ones, it only really works for prototyping, these are way more expensive to make when compared to injection molded parts. Never seen colour ones before, i guess they add some dye to the binder.

will z be the new i

it's just corn starch, right?

So this is what I thought of when I first watched this - Does it count as theft if you find something on the internet, say a plastic gnome, and print it out on your 3D printer? Sure, they only have 2D images on most things for now, but in the near future, that could change. What are companies to do when their products are being made instead of bought for a fraction of the cost?

And yes, I realize these things are created in a CAD program, but one day they might not be. One day you might be able to take any 3D image and print it out.

As far as I know there is no law barring reverse engineering solutions, only outright copyright theft.

wow. that really is amazing.

call me when it can print dinner

Call me when they sell replicators

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Just amazing - and I know what you mean nibiyabi - I have this feeling of looking back from the future at the quaintness of this machine. I'm sure all of those manual coating procedures will be automatic, and HP will make one for $300.

Talk about a relevant link from Neatorama.

They represent the "arts" with a dopey skateboarder, and at the end there is something that looks like a tattoo machine?!?

rotfl@southblvd.

i was wondering, ok, the machine costs 40k, but how much does it cost producing *ONE* model with it?

i sent this link to a friend of mine.

he gave me something MUCH more intresting in return: a machine producing giant sugar candies!

Copycat, looris

His (accidental) copying came in handy anyway, because I clicked his and missed yours.

I will use this machine to build my army. Then I will use my army to build more machines.... it's a vicious cycle.

omfg I could make some serious architectural models with this

lol pyrex didn't notice

I have used a few of these, the stereo lithography machines are about 5-6 years old and are extremely frustrating to try to describe to anyone.

The colour print is a little dodgy tho, but it's still early days, unfortunately you have to do a fair amount of work to a normal 3d model to make it print ready.

Ahh yeah, you can also print models in ABS plastic, metal, and some special rubber like materials.
The coolest thing I ever saw printed was a combustion engine, that was printed with water soluble joint spacers so that when you dissolve them it actually works like a real engine, pistons going up and down, and it was only 5cm x 5cm

*engineering

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