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The evolution of 3d printing makes one wonder if one day these printers will make craftsmen or even whole industries obsolete.
Why buy a tool if, like in the following video, you can, print one in the comfort of your own home?



I love these technological innovations because they make you think about what the world will be like in a few decades.
Will technology be used for good or bad? Need a gun? Print one.



Printing can be done in plastic, metal, stone...

A dutch architect has designed a home that he hopes to print in 2014. The time needed to print his design is about 6 months.
The printer is by an italian  (Enrico Dini) who developped the technology of using and hardening sand or grinded stone to print the building.

http://www.dearchitect.nl/nieuws/2013/01/15/nederlander-ontwerpt-3d-geprinte-woning.html

Sorry last link is in dutch.

Ok, now of to feed a sketchup model of the Domino XL to my 3d printer.  [wink]

 
there was a discution a while back on the radio about 3d printing
the expert said that the plan is to sell a printing file to people so that they can print their own items instead of buying them
 
Sorry to tell you but both of those videos are propaganda. If you really believe that printed crescent wrench is as strong as the hardened steel original then I have some beautiful land to sell you in Florida.

As for the printed gun myth, that's all it is, a myth. The only part printed on that gun is what's known as the bottom receiver, or trigger assembly which is shown as the white part in the video. They have printed a magazine but the spring doesn't last longer than a few shots. They do not have the material to print a firing pin or the barrel. Both of these parts need strength and heat resistance which they just don't have. And without these parts you do not have a gun.

You can look around on YouTube for more videos about the gun and you will find the one by the guy that made the parts and he admits there is long way to go before we have printed guns.

While I will admit 3D printers have come a long way, there's lots of false hype being generated right now.
 
obviously there is a lot of work to be done.
look what happened to computers adn phones . every year was a massive improvment over the  last.
 
A few years ago, rapid prototyping was very fragile. The parts could easily break. They have gotten a lot stronger, with a lot more options on the types of plastics that can be used.

When I was searching for a printing company to make a prototype of this turbo intake manifold, I was surprised that one company indicated that one of their printing types could actually handle the engine temperature and 30psi of boost pressure that this manifold would experience on a running engine. Of course my client didn't take that option because all we needed to do was confirm clearances, but it could have been done. It was also too much of a risk destroying a very expensive 800hp engine if the plastic would have broken. The technology has really come a long way in the last few years.

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There is a company called EOS that uses 3d technology to make titanium parts, here are  two 3d printed metal samples made with EOS 3d printers. A Formula 1 race car custom heat exchanger and artificial joints.



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Here is a link to their website

http://www.eos.info/

Funny they have a picture of a Festo robotic arm on the first page of the website.
 
I think Steve and Rick can speak far more intelligently than myself here, and probably most of us, but just something to consider.

Time's change.  Tech matures, develops, grows.  We're constantly moving forward, whether it's good or bad will ALWAYS be up for debate.  As tech develops "weapons" always become easier to develop.  I didn't take the time to watch the gun video (pardon me) but any new tech will always face disinformation campaigns who's interest lies in already developed tech and industries protecting their firmly cemented places in our lives 'n society.  No matter what it may be. 

A cool side note.  I saw the flick gasland recently starring Matt Damon (I thiiiink it was him).  Anyways, ok flick, nice to watch a "drier" drama with some ok acting.  Script was interesting, but got a bit boring.  Point IS, the flick was funded by Saudi Arabia.  An oil rich country, the interests of which lie strongly in prolonging our dependency on oil.  The tiniest bit of apprehension they can seed into our minds about ANY potential new threat to their oil supremacy is a win-win for them.

Always remember that.  Those with the $$$ are usually, from some hidden angle, manipulating your thoughts, beliefs, ideas, etc.  That's not a doom 'n gloom statement, but rather just a "keep your eyes open, consider every angle, little is what it seems" note to those out there who don't consciously / sub consciously live within this frame of mind.  Most things are because we've been taught to perceive them as such.  This can go off into a tangential stream of thought re: philosophy, evolution, human conditioning or simply... The big bad corporations / big brother control your thoughts! [tongue]
 
Asssssssssss for that printer, because I did go on a bit of a tangent there....  In due time we probably will all have printers in our homes and we'll be buying files of things we want so our personal printer can then create the item we desire.  It's probably very far away, but hey, adapt.  Things always change.  Business will adapt and change, we'll adapt and change.

The question is, what happens one day when this recurring wave of novelty and development reaches some sort of 0 point.  A point where the tech develops SO quickly.  It's clear to all, and has been documented by many, that the wave of novelty, in tech and other sectors, is exponentially quickening, everyday.  I believe someday there will have to be some sort of point zero we cross into.  Who has thoughts on THAT.  It was a theory I was introduced to by the late great Terrence McKenna... his "fractal wave of novelty."
 
Alan m said:
obviously there is a lot of work to be done.
look what happened to computers adn phones . every year was a massive improvment over the  last.
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and spell checkers  [big grin]
 
Anybody interested in printed MFT dogs? (UK)

Could print some out for cost of plastic and postage - keen to know if they would hold up to use/abuse.
 
johne said:
The evolution of 3d printing makes one wonder if one day these printers will make craftsmen or even whole industries obsolete.
Why buy a tool if, like in the following video, you can, print one in the comfort of your own home?
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When i first got a color printer as a kid, i thought "no more going to the library, ill just copy everything i borrow" then i found out that to print something you need need to scan it. Which wasn't an affordable tool at the time. Now that both are available it hasn't put any industry out of business.
Even today even if you could get a free pdf copy of a book, it would not be worth it to print it out. The tools needed to make proper books are still financially out of reach for consumers.
I would certainly like to have a 3d printer when affordable, to build jigs and stuff. But well probably get through a stage first (like with copy machines) where you go to a local shop that has one and can copy the files you send them for a small fee.

Again as a kid we visited the "house of the future" in the 90's, where they showed us how we would live now, everything in the house controlled by domotics, a theater room, a fridge that orders groceries etc... pretty much nothing of what we saw has become common.
As Sean mentions, maybe there is a point where further technological evolution becomes obsolete.
 
Trumpet said:
Anybody interested in printed MFT dogs? (UK)

Could print some out for cost of plastic and postage - keen to know if they would hold up to use/abuse.
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Take it u got a printer. Wa u got
 
JMB - opensource derivative (Reprap), MendelMax build based on aluminium extrusion for the frame, sourced parts individually to make the unit a little cheaper than kit of parts and a lot cheaper than off the shelf at the time. Prices are falling rapidly and consistently though. Not quite to up the level professional level production prints but the tech being open source is improving at a very rapid rate.

Can see it being good for small scale jigs and fixtures, anything where making out of wood on small scale is PIA and you want to make a few off.

Like these for example:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:22865
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15186
 
Timtool said:
johne said:
The evolution of 3d printing makes one wonder if one day these printers will make craftsmen or even whole industries obsolete.
Why buy a tool if, like in the following video, you can, print one in the comfort of your own home?
Click to expand...

When i first got a color printer as a kid, i thought "no more going to the library, ill just copy everything i borrow" then i found out that to print something you need need to scan it. Which wasn't an affordable tool at the time. Now that both are available it hasn't put any industry out of business.
Even today even if you could get a free pdf copy of a book, it would not be worth it to print it out. The tools needed to make proper books are still financially out of reach for consumers.
I would certainly like to have a 3d printer when affordable, to build jigs and stuff. But well probably get through a stage first (like with copy machines) where you go to a local shop that has one and can copy the files you send them for a small fee.

Again as a kid we visited the "house of the future" in the 90's, where they showed us how we would live now, everything in the house controlled by domotics, a theater room, a fridge that orders groceries etc... pretty much nothing of what we saw has become common.
As Sean mentions, maybe there is a point where further technological evolution becomes obsolete.
Click to expand...

I'll have to disagree. The advent of affordable quality scanners and digital photography has for example killed the lithography industry. Lithographic companies scanned transparencies(slides) and converted these to color separated film that was used to print said transparencies in books and magazines.
Kodak's film division also did not fare all that well because of digital photography.

I don't think that further technological evolution will become obsolete, rather that companies that won't change and adapt to this evolution will.
 
Ya'll are missing the point on 3d printed tools.

Tools are for assembling and making things , and that's what 3d printing does .

You won't need tools when you can print a finished product all in one shot, fully assembled.

Tools for fixing things? Nah, you'll chuck the old one in the shredder hopper and recycle it as a new print.
 
johne said:
I'll have to disagree. The advent of affordable quality scanners and digital photography has for example killed the lithography industry. Lithographic companies scanned transparencies(slides) and converted these to color separated film that was used to print said transparencies in books and magazines.
Kodak's film division also did not fare all that well because of digital photography.

I don't think that further technological evolution will become obsolete, rather that companies that won't change and adapt to this evolution will.
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Was it the advent of better quality industrial printers for the industry that caused that, or are people now printing their own books and magazines at home?
And was the lithography industry killed, or did they switch to new technology?

Obviously major technical breakthroughs like digital photography force the old industry to adapt or die. And i am not convinced that 3d printers are a major breakthrough in the way that everybody will manufacture their own goods at home and put entire industries out of business. The advantage i can see is in the production of single items, prototypes or small batches, these things as far as i know can for the moment only build in 1 material, things that are very cheap to mass produce with conventional machines.
 
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