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First 3D printed guitar.

And it works.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/201 ... ummit.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21754915

''Pirate Bay' for 3D printing launched'

Something actually useful and they're trying to kill it already.

Must be good then!

3d printing in wax has been industry standard in the jewelry and "hip"/bone replacement industries for years now...

The items are printed in wax and then cast in metal or whatever material the finished product is supposed to be...

But the plastics printing is seriously clumsy - and the machines are a pain in the ass to run...
You constantly have to stop and clear lumping plastic - then you have to re-calibrate your work - which is super difficult &
usually you have to re-do completely...
You want to talk about jamming - these things jam and then cool and clog and then you have replace entire sections of the machine...

The laser/powder printing may be smarter - but is way more expensive...

I'm just saying that this entire technology has to come a long long way before it's household standard.

right now it's mostly for rapid prototyping...not as the product itself

exp. to die a watch casing
- costs @$15,000. or 11,400EUR - so instead - they bang out a bunch of different plastic ones
to compare variations - check clearances - check the actual cad files - make decisions
before investing in the dies

I've designed stuff in CAD/Rhino(to be precise) - and when it printed - the shit was big enough to fit a horse...
Those kinds of mistakes have to be caught before the thing hits any sort of production line.

http://sav-cdn.com/sites/default/files/ ... 439337.jpg

That is a pic of my CAD teachers work...Kim Tatalick

and if you talk to her about concept...she is all about perfection

She wants to re-do historical designs to a level of techno perfection that is only possible with the machines...
and so that is her thing...mind bogglingly perfect plastic versions of old stuff

and so she has to teach at our school to have access to the machinery.

That piece was bought by a museum - so she made serious bank off that.

I'm not completely against it - but I am skeptical

It's expensive - unsustainable...

not intuitive...you have to learn a bunch of shit like how to set and check stereolithic files
and you have to be good at CAD and knowing tedious clearances and accounting for shrinkage

and who wants a bunch of japanese teenagers pumping out metric tons of my little pony/godzilla bastardization replicas


I was being sort of racist there...

Who wants a bunch of American Teenagers pumping out metric tons of ...pokemon/superhero bastardizations
...like there isn't enough plastic junk floating around.

I say this as a maker of plastic jewelry - shoots self in foot.

And what I mean by unsustainable -

Has less to do with to do with properly sourcing materials (on the front end)...it has to do with the initial price of the technology...
In order to justify the cost of these machines - you have to produce a ton of the same shit and sell it all.(and thus the back end)

It's like a hell model of everyone producing huge amounts of the same shit to pay for the - perfection machine


Which is the opposite of what I think the world needs - We need to go back to valuing small amounts of hand work - and accept imperfections as beautiful and a source of natural mutation.

People may actual have work then - tailors on every street - bio-diverse produce in the markets from small organic farms - community studios

Not all slave labor from 3rd world countries. It puts lots of little people under the machine - and makes everything way expensive on the up side.


It's the true life equivalent of Kim Kardashian demanding a room of no less than 5K a night in NY - when I am cutting my stay short because I can only afford $130 in a micro-mini for a single night.(a beautiful micro-mini I must add - not exactly a complaint)

what

can i print weed?

Am I going too far out there with the metaphors again?

Mason wrote:can i print weed?

you only need to print the thc

Maybe I am being painfully practical - But this guy is talking about building plastic moon pods - on the moon.

Can you people please stop asking for retarded and astronomically expensive ridiculous stuff.

Seriously - If 38 days in the Jane hotel is not good enough for you - you need to die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-FHy-64 ... r_embedded

I've BEEN on strike...since 2008


You know - Why make an expensive machine to make things easier
for people who are too lazy to do anything to begin with.

FUCK THEIR CONTRIBUTION!!!

Why an expensive machine to make plastic versions of ceramic puppies?

Because you are not going to the moon.


Bring back the science fiction novel !!! It's a better product.


I would say I HATE MONEY!!!- But I HATE WHAT MONEY HAS BECOME!!
STACKS OF NUMBERS

ikea use them for prototypes, saw it on discovery chan making spoons and shit from 3d designs on the pc. everone will have one in the future btw

everyone will have them and they won't be worth shit - it will be shit - massive amount of plastic shit

We will be hermetically sealing ourselves into caves made of heaps of poorly designed plastic spoons...
To protect against waves of more plastic things - plastic bags like suffocating jelly clouds...

We will be pressure blasting rockets through atmospheres of densely packed tinker toys and hollow sounding objects
just to accidently pull the junk into space - leaving extra large cow patty like plastic mounds where the rockets blared
air saturated with breathable polystyrene reactions

After awhile we won't make anything - we will carve it all
out of solid pools of electrically reclaimmed laundry detergent bottles.
Perpetual ants, pulling up snowfall amounts of flaky carving powders
Walls of static fields holding the shred waste in flimsy towering structures
as public art installations - just to contain it somewhere.

frosted acrylic sky - stifling bell dome - lacking the weight of glass
all sizes of rubber o-rings in mounted boxes as safety measures - emergency clamps

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but! think of all the recycling

It sounds like fun