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interesting
I guess that’s pretty cool =D
what will make penis
What material is it using for the “print?”
ABS plastic. very common, very tough, pretty cheap. same material as legos.
I’m sure every architect is going to want one of those :)
I want one of those. I’m always breaking stuff.
Beautifully done, it reminds me of those Steve Jobs garage times [...]
Could they make another Ellie? Impossible I say. The geography of her beauty surpasses these nerds feeble 3D coordinates.
To mold her sweltering lucious lips they need to capture fire, passion of a 1000 birthing stars. Then they have to meld that together with the timeless serenity of a poem.
Can these freaks of nature do that? Do they have that “plugin”? No didnt think so!
Rapid prototyping FTW
I know for a fact that the material itself used in the printing process is stupid expensive. No idea what the machine itself costs but that will not be a cheap hobby.
How much?
we’re an honest business, making an honest living. =)
the material is uses is ABS which is a super-strong plastic. same stuff legos are made out of, and those are tough little buggers.
a 5lb roll of it is $40. that’s enough to be printing for months.
so not quite ’stupid expensive’ :-)
Thanks for the numbers Zach.
What you’re doing is really interesting !!
amazing… how many teenagers will be printing off 3D genetalia in 10 years?
cool
Thousands…
We had something like this at my school… where it would take wax and you would make an image and it would cut up the wax… ok so they were very simple and no where near as percise but still this isnt the first time I’m seeing the idea
What are the models made of?
That looks like it might be wax.
CSI
Just think…40 years ago (1969) a rocket took men to the moon. And now we can make tiny miniatures of a rocket out of wax! Amazing how far technology has advanced since then.
That’s freaking awesome.
Don’t these already exist? At one time industry would employ artist to hand make molds for objects now these machines have replaced the artist.
Signs used to be hand-painted.
very nice idea i want one
I’ve seen this before, desktop fabricator. Very cool concept….not sure how more advanced this machine is to the one I’ve seen before at “fab at home” (you can google this if interested).
that’s awesome! But I can’t help wondering what material it “prints”! It looks like a combination of soap and cheese!
Anyone else thinking this guys looks like Athene?
Very cool.
I think 3D printers will be the most important development of the next 20 years. Manufacturing, retail, maintenance and who knows what else will all be drastically effected by the increasing sophistication & availability of 3D printers.
Theyll print out pictures of dicks!
NOOO
I wonder if that’s patented…
I reckon in a few years we can all make those 3Dimages and send them to our friends.
Even better, a newer version of the machine that colours it, too.
A little, yeah!
The interesting thing is that rather than starting with a block of foam and cutting off the material you don’t want (which is what manufacturers are doing now, it starts with a clean slate and puts down the wax where it needs to be.
How cool is that ?!?!
Thanks for the interview Ellie.
Can it make this girl come back?
Did they decide it was “for the masses” when they saw the type of cake of soap the robot always yelded time and again?
Dear old Computer-Aided-Manufacturing lowered to “for the masses” standard.
Masses, have your say…
Um this isn’t anything new… 3D printers have existed for a while now.
3D printers in well-funded labs and huge research facilities have been around for a while now.
A couple guys creating machines like this in a self-supported hackerspace is something new.
Hey Bre, did you ever attend DXARTS at UW in Seattle? They have a machine there that does the exact same thing. Perhaps more commercial than your 3D Robot.
What kind of material does it use?
Was that like wax or something?
m really sorry, but these things freak me out sooo much!
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I thought so to, but this thing actually supplies the material. In other 3d printers you have to place a block of material and it carves from that.
hey b-man,
dxarts is a rad program at the university of washington. commercial machines are cool, but they are very expensive. makerbot kits are cheap in comparison and you get to put it together… kinda like when apples first came out. :)
nice video (rb and bre/zach) - good stuff.
HAPPY PASSOVER TO ALL THOSE OF THE JEWISH FAITH!
Usain Bolt needs to get out of these videos.
OK guys, listen up (commenters). This does not print in wax. It prints objects out of really tough plastic. It is far cheaper than any similar commercially available machine. It is also totally open source which makes it even more awesome. It takes its inspiration from the RepRap project, which IMHO is better than the fab@home project, not that they aren’t doing good things as well.
This is more expensive than building a comparable machine yourself from scratch, but it also takes far far less work. They’ve done most of the work for you. If I hadn’t already started my own RepRap project, I’d definitely consider buying one of these MakerBots.
At first sight, based on what I see in the video, the surface finishing is poor. Maybe it’s only a bad choice of samples, in which case I’d suggest the site to display a showroom page with the highest performance examples. The bunny looked well, but Ellie couldn’t wait to incinerate it, so it was just a flash.
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How about using some kind of silicone as material and reverse model to a form that can be used to quickly replicate as many models as needed with variety of modeling waxes and fillers?
This was pretty cool, but i have to ask something nobody else is:
Where the fuck did Joanna go?
Other people are concerned if you just pay attention. Looks like she went POOF!
She got married I hope…
Go Joanna… replicate yourself !
Make the world more (externally) beautiful !
Good idea is to use organic papermache-like filler from flour, water, paper, and maybe some sand… Cheap and easy accessible, yet with 3d-printed forms downloadable from internet possibilities would be endless.
Looks really cool !
Notes to Self
Ellie (if/when): 1)Loose the flowers, bring pyrotechnics.
OW SNAP thats sick
Not New! See also:
Laser Sintering
Fused deposition modeling
Stereolithography (SLA)
Laminated object manufacturing
Electron beam melting
3D printing
Also, compare MIT with hackerspaces to put it in the proper context.
I like 2 use a router & 1″ thick plywood. It’s cheap & strong & with freaky curvy bits can make loads a groovy toys U can actually USE! =) Like 4 instance big groovy speakers U can sell 4 thousands of $
U can make templates also from ‘cardboard wood’ (’pressboard’ type stuff) 4 templates - that is, ’till U go big wheel from the protos n’ just subcontract 2 a CNC place like mois HAHA
Yes we ‘geeks’ (even hot geex like ma’self ;) know.. can’t even remember when I first saw - was around @ least from the early 90’s when I was in college. I think the 1’st 1’s used plastic like the dental stuff - plastic bath, & would solidify shapes as the subjerged object moved down, layering them like dentists glue on vineers W/a light stick.
Problem with the ‘makerbot’ in particular as U can C is very blocky lookin’, & drips goo everyplace. Multi-axis routers give a smoth result tho’ =D
Sure, & U know the 3D printers will sell 4 like $50, but the ‘ink’ will B a comical anal-rape ripoff @ $20 per!
I have the solution: NEVER PRINT N E THING OUT! PRINTING IS A HUGE RIPOFF! Or, get ya’self an old ‘junk’ printer like an HP722C, where the cartridges aren’t these MICROSCOPIC $30 ‘dead in 50 pages’ consumer slave monuments to crippleware design. Micro$oft N E 1? HAHA
Makerbot wants 2 peddle $100 hot glue gun printers. Just $40 4 the ‘goo’ yes?? & ‘maintainance’ $ OMG LoL
Looks like hot glue - the ‘head’ there seems 2 B just like a heater element from a hot glue gun, & the material goops around like hot glue. Something they could maybe do 2 make it work better is have it lay down goo in a cool water bath, or @ least with a cooling fan near the object - so maybe eliminates a lot of that dripping junk & blockyness - they could also place the layers much closer together & use a smaller apperature. It’s really the ‘Hot Glue 3D Modeler’ (2 name it honestly =)
okay… :)
Thats creepy. Exact same wallpaper and colour theme as my Ubuntu.
how cool thaqt they used wood, make it look more oldschool funky =-)
would be so much better if they got something better to “spray” the material out , i saw an early version of this , and all they used was a syringe.
Ahh the cynicism is almost as strong as the smell of spring. I like the idea and the idealism behind it. I could envisage it being used to produce 3D business cards/logos to help market small business.
You go guys - just please steer it towards printing on materials that aren’t reusable because I gather there’d be a lot of wastage it getting print outs just right. Thanks again Rocketboom.
THAT´S GREAT!
AND THE BEST OF IT IS THAT :
THEY DID IT!
ALL OTHER JUST DREAM ABOUT.
AND THEY DID.
THESE GUYS ARE GENIUS.
THAT´S ALL.
loxlok
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Great feedback sb - we’ll try to fashion the prints meet to your specifications!
Oops mean’t to say ‘are reusable’ below… cheers!
a 3D printer, this is already available.. i saw one on TV 8 years back or something.. A 3D car came out… it was a wax kinda model
yea but how big was it?. Could you have it on your desk?
yep, a but bigger than this box. a bit……
can you make something on google sketchup then upload it to their website?
Almost identical thing: http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
oh.. was it expensive? O.O
Thy keep passing off this old technology as new.
But: When can I print a makerbot with a makerbot?
probably the first chick that comes by thise guys
Ever heard of reprap?
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it was used in an Automobile company for R&D purpose i suppose. It was some Japanese Auto comp i suppose
Does it print in recyclable materials?
I don’t think they’re trying to pass it of as new… rather that they’re trying to make the tech accessible to home users.
Personally… from the looks of their produce… they’ve got a ways to go before I’d think about buying one.
yo dawg! we heard u like 3d printing! so we put a 3d printer on yo 3d printer so yo can 3d print while yo 3d print, dawg
believe in yourselfs and obama for he will lead you to gods glory, the kingdom of heaven on earth
dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days nw uv startd readn this dnt stp this is so scary snd ths ovr 2 5 vids in 143 mins when ur done press f6 nd ur crush’s name wll appear on the screen n big letters ths
wtf? “the gutenberg of 3d printing” ok you only get to say that if your device is the first ever 3d printer…(this isn’t it)