Quake3World

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:06 am**

The FORM 1 opts for a method called stereolithography that blasts liquid plastic with a laser, causing the resin to cure. This is one of the most accurate methods of additive manufacturing, but also one of the most expensive thanks to the need for high-end optics, with units typically costing tens-of-thousands of dollars. A group of recent grads from the MIT Media Lab have managed to replicate the process for a fraction of the cost and founded a company called Formlabs to deliver their innovations to the public... The FORM 1 is capable of creating objects with layers as thin as 25 microns.

3D printing is going to be awesome for the manufacturing/prototyping industry and it's amazing that prices are dropping on these units that normal consumers can pick up a unit and use it to make stuff. I want one!

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/form ... ble-price/

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:13 am**

I will own one of these

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:34 am**

can i print an asshole to stick my cock in?

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:51 am**

welp, that didn't take long

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:24 am**

That is incredible...those prices dropping on those so consumers can use to make near anything.

Might put out of business some of the model makers.

Imagine if you will, having one of these 3d printers, then getting on the 'net and downloading the 'kit'

I assembled so may in my youth

No. I suppose there will always be a need to assemble

Edit: They removed my hotlink, middle image

and I forgot what it was of.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:48 am**

how much does the material that these use cost, i imagine its gonna be quite steep. wont be long before some genius makes a gun and the whole thing gets some serious regulation...

but fuck yeah, one step closer to a rl replicator

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:19 am**

fKd wrote:wont be long before some genius makes a gun and the whole thing gets some serious regulation...

Funny you should say that...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/se ... sfeed=true

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:26 am**

this is why we cant have nice things

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:28 am**

It's all plastic eh. I wonder if you can create a working gun out of that.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:57 pm**

these are old old

i remember the FMC research place here had one in the 80's

the plastic it delicate

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:36 pm**

Eraser wrote:It's all plastic eh. I wonder if you can create a working gun out of that.

John Malkovich can.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:44 pm**

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:53 pm**

fKd wrote:how much does the material that these use cost

$149/litre

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:56 pm**

but it's recyclable/reusable materials IIRC.

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:15 am**

No, it's resin. You buy it as a liquid and it cures into a solid.

Posted: **Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:43 pm**

Everything I'm working on at the moment has been grown using this tech and then re-cast in more durable plastics, it's incredible. The detail and accuracy (in the professional machines) is of a level that you just simply can't achieve with traditional model making in the same timeframe, it's truly revolutionary stuff and the unfortunate reason I'm slowly and painfully chugging my way through Solidworks tutorials.

I'm seriously tempted to pledge these guys money, seriously tempted. It'd pay for itself within a month.

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2012 1:12 pm**

phantasmagoria wrote:Everything I'm working on at the moment has been grown using this tech and then re-cast in more durable plastics, it's incredible. The detail and accuracy (in the professional machines) is of a level that you just simply can't achieve with traditional model making in the same timeframe, it's truly revolutionary stuff and the unfortunate reason I'm slowly and painfully chugging my way through Solidworks tutorials.

I'm seriously tempted to pledge these guys money, seriously tempted. It'd pay for itself within a month.

I'm getting one for my studio. I'm going through the solidworks tutorials myself. I reckon in two years, most objects used in composited photography will be made using this process. I'm going to make sure I'm first through the door.

Like you say, it'll pay for itself.

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2012 1:31 pm**

HP do a colour version which is very good. The only problem is the durability of the resin.

http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/3d-pr ... id=4154513

PS another tech bought up by HP, they don't invent shit.

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:42 pm**

Calm down toner boi.

Posted: **Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:15 pm**

nice one

Posted: **Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:40 pm**

Related...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/ ... ver_again_

Interesting take...

Posted: **Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:55 pm**

Calling filesharing "file-swapping" =

Posted: **Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:35 pm**

Are they not swapping files?

Posted: **Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:52 pm**

25um thick layers is pretty impressive, but I wonder if they can hold that degree of precision in dimensional tolerances? This technology isn't new, but the price certainly is, the last one of these I saw was >$30k. Combining something like this with a TechShop (http://www.techshop.ws/) would be something to see.

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2014 6:15 pm**

and how - houses!

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/ne ... urs-470564

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