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I think I may be able to use this in my arcade restorations:



Though the price may be a little high to start! How cool is this?
 
I think I may be able to use this in my arcade restorations:

Though the price may be a little high to start! How cool is this?

That is definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I just watched it and I still have a hard time believing it. At the end I was waiting for someone to come on and say something like "got ya! sucker!".
 
Those rapid proto machines are very cool, they kind of glossed over the scanning part though. No way did they capture the inside tolerances of that worm drive holding a "scanner" in hand.

How long until someone applies Rule 34 to one of these? LOL
 
That is just awesome! I agree, I think there was more scanning done then what they showed. I wonder the cost. Be nice to have a chevy 350 block replica made to use for mauk ups!!
 
On another forum I frequent, twistypuzzles.com, a lot of the members use www.shapeways.com for their 3D printing. You can upload your own cad files and even offer your designs for sale to others through them.

I have never used them personally, but they come highly recommended from others.

Chris
 
The college I work at has a 3D printer in the CAD classroom for the students to use in class. I shot a video of one of the students printing out a Star Wars TIE Fighter on it:

 
So what is the items made out of? Plastic? I can't see that wrench being viable if it isn't made out of steel.

Have there been any experiments using this rapid prototyper and the Kinect?
 
They use something similar in dentistry called a CERAC machine. A scan of the tooth preparation is done, and the machine spits out a crown cut from a porcelain type material. Scan a 3D object and it makes a 3D object.
 
Today's XKCD:

3d_printer.png

http://xkcd.com/924/
 
So what is the items made out of? Plastic? I can't see that wrench being viable if it isn't made out of steel.

Have there been any experiments using this rapid prototyper and the Kinect?

The one we have here uses a plastic powder - the print heads "cure" the plastic on each pass.
 
On another forum I frequent, twistypuzzles.com, a lot of the members use www.shapeways.com for their 3D printing. You can upload your own cad files and even offer your designs for sale to others through them.

I have never used them personally, but they come highly recommended from others.

Chris

Was going to suggest them as well. A fellow here at work uses them for board game pieces and the quality is pretty good.

We have a 1st gen one here at work, but the printed parts are brittle and can really only be used for display. :(
 
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