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3D Printing

  • 01-02-2013 03:25PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 49


    You don't hear too much about 3D printing considering how amazing the technology is, I read on the BBC website there are plans to 3D print buildings on the moon.

    It seems to be a technology which has been largely off the radar.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    How fascinating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    i bet the cartridges are really fcukin expensive for that yoke...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Wake me up when they are 3D printing a few hoverboards


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    davet82 wrote: »
    i bet the cartridges are really fcukin expensive for that yoke...

    £52.30 Sterling for one colour.... RepRap Open Source DIY 3D Printer


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Damnit....I knew I should have kept those magazines.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    £52.30 Sterling for one colour.... RepRap Open Source DIY 3D Printer

    WTF? Do you have a delorean by any chance?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It's not off the radar.

    Once costs drop enough it will explode everywhere. The potential cost savings are enormous.



    BBC culture show has a program on that included 3D printing, sugru and hacking
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t6c5

    One comment made was that when people repair stuff with sugru then manufacturers can get the feedback and improve the product. I can imagine the same would be true of 3D printing, if a type of part keeps getting broken it can be redesigned.

    The attitude of charging an arm and a leg for parts needs to end :mad:
    Also it's a PITA waiting for back orders.


    As one telecoms engineer said of VoIP when it first appeared, any phone company that isn't terrified doesn't understand the technology.

    3D printing means you can make many spare parts easily. For metal parts you'd use a "lost wax" process , possibly scaling up by a few % to cater for shrinkage.

    I can see a time when parts departments won't hold as many spares as in the past, it'll be publish on demand.



    Like laser cutting the costs are dropping all the time. IIRC it's about €15K for a commercial printer (HP?) so it would be interesting to see at what point it becomes cheaper than having €15K of unused stock in the backroom. Also in these days of gombeen landlords who use upward only rent reviews there would be savings on storage space.



    Imagine a world where there are vending machines in 24 hour shops / garages. You could use the interwebulizer to get a spare part design from the manufacturer, send it to a nearby machine which then texts's when the item is ready for collection. (you can already send an email and have the object posted to you.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    davet82 wrote: »
    WTF? Do you have a delorean by any chance?

    Yep, I'm back from the future to stop the 3D printers from self replicating and taking over the world.

    * See "Replicators" in Stargate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    It will surely cost loads of jobs won't it? Transport, manufacturing, design etc...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I can see a time when parts departments won't hold as many spares as in the past, it'll be publish on demand.
    Only problem is that when you go to BMW looking for a spare part which would have cost €150 to have it in your hand, they'll charge you €140 for the blueprint and tell you you're getting a bargain.

    Though there's no reason why someone couldn't design the part for you and provide the blueprints for nothing. That's not theft by any definition.
    It will surely cost loads of jobs won't it? Transport, manufacturing, design etc...
    Swings and roundabouts. It'll stimulate a ****load of jobs that don't even exist at the moment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    3D printing is unreal!

    Gives a new dimension to sending cock shots :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    Are you on something OP,

    3d printing is used all the time. check out shapeways.com


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    Im totally gonna download a car


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    You wouldn't download a car ehhh

    ^^ beaten to it :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Pilotdude5 wrote: »
    It will surely cost loads of jobs won't it? Transport, manufacturing, design etc...

    No, it's really aimed at custom designs with limited production runs.
    And at the moment it only prints out plastic moulds.
    So it's not printing out other materials required to make a circuit board and electronics components, wiring etc.

    If you wanted to produce production runs of thousands of items, eg. plastic protective cases for phones, it's cheaper and faster to use something like injection moulding.

    That said... I did notice a web site allow you to upload a 3D design and they'll print it as a keyring for you...

    http://www.sculpteo.com/en/workshops/create/keyring/?uuid=RZmTN1XKtP3o5tW9uDKYT

    They've other 3D printing designs too Gallery


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    1ZRed wrote: »
    3D printing is unreal!

    Gives a new dimension to sending cock shots :pac:

    Oh yeah. The office Christmas party just got a whole lot more interesting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    i'd say the toy industry is shítting itself :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    TIL: What sugru is, looks awesome.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    davet82 wrote: »
    i bet the cartridges are really fcukin expensive for that yoke...
    you can make your own, melt down broken lego pieces and stuff , use wax


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    you can make your own, melt down broken lego pieces and stuff , use wax

    I don't think I'd want to live in a wax building!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Pacly


    I remember seeing on tv a few months ago a little girl who had some illness was using a contraption made from 3d printing to move her arms. The parents just order new parts if one wears out, and get a bigger one made as she grows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    Pacly wrote: »
    I remember seeing on tv a few months ago a little girl who had some illness was using a contraption made from 3d printing to move her arms. The parents just order new parts if one wears out, and get a bigger one made as she grows.

    They are amazing. I also seen one which was also used with 3d scanning to reconstruct a mans jaw after it had deteriorated through cancer.

    Im fortunate enough to get to use one at work if I want to show bosses or clients new designs. Makes my job much easier.

    They are costly though, like certain materials cost almost 50 cent a gram. Not sure how much the Metal sintering costs but I assume they are huge.

    They are also very time consuming considering I printed a part about the size of a regular keyboard and it took 31hrs. Wonder how long a house would take :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Funny thing is they are trying to ban the sale of 7+capacity magazine clips for rifles in the US and already downloadable 3D printer programmes are already available. :)

    http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/145664-3d-printed-30-round-ar-magazine-brings-us-ever-closer-to-a-fully-3d-printed-gun


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    Funny thing is they are trying to ban the sale of 7+capacity magazine clips for rifles in the US and already downloadable 3D printer programmes are already available. :)

    http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/145664-3d-printed-30-round-ar-magazine-brings-us-ever-closer-to-a-fully-3d-printed-gun

    True but nothing stopping a person from buying a printer and some 3d design package and making whatever they want. You can pick up 3d prinders now from as little as 1000 £


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    3D printing was cool and exciting last autumn but now it's on AH, so meh. 3D print me a shark jumping device.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    If I print myself by accident, will it try and kill me and replace me ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    It's not off the radar.

    Once costs drop enough it will explode everywhere. The potential cost savings are enormous.

    Imagine going into the local mechanics for a replacement bumper for your car or something.

    Rather than wait weeks for a spare part to be shipped, they could just download the schematic and print one off for you there and then.

    I can't wait for this to go mainstream.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    TheUsual wrote: »
    If I print myself by accident, will it try and kill me and replace me ?
    I would.


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