3D Printing stuff

frank grimes jr. · Post by **frank grimes jr.** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:44 pm

You are the most ridiculous human on the planet.

lovelydivot · Post by **lovelydivot** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:54 pm

I'm not bullshitting you - They teach marine design at my alma mater...
I can barely pay rent and they want me to think about some shit like that!!!

I'm looking at the farmers market.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:00 pm

lovelydivot wrote:seriously

If you want to learn how to build a house...learn how to use a circular saw and routers...

you don't need to pay for a special school to learn and have access to - a large scale cnc milling machine...

I fought this all the way through school - I don't trust this - people...

They will let you do it for a large sum of money and stay on top - by obsolescing the tools we have now.

I've stood next to these machines in the industrial design lab
- and I felt like satan was trying to get me to gamble me on the super big dream.

Breeding a taste for luxury goods.

maybe they were trying to help me be employed or something - in service to the king or whoever has money...

Fuck them and their boats.

I don't think it's quite as cut and dry as you're making it.

This is the cycle of innovation technology & art, and it's played out in well-documented large swathes over the last century (at least.)

My favorite example is the relationship between photography and painting...

It used to be, about 150+ years ago, that there was an entire profession of painters - nominally artists, but 99% of what they did was portraiture. This was what was in demand from the people who could pay for it. Then the photograph was invented and became relatively affordable within a relatively short period of time, and suddenly all of those painters were out of work. Photography destroyed classical painted portraiture for the most part. BUT... the painters that were left who continued to explore, who were compelled to paint because it was simply their medium and they were committed to it - those painters started the revolutions that totally changed and liberated painting, starting with Impressionism and moving into Modernism, Cubism, etc.

Same thing happened with film and video.

Same thing happened with digital recording technology and tape recording technology.

etc., etc.

lovelydivot · Post by **lovelydivot** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:09 pm

So - I should just relax and go with this advice...

lovelydivot · Post by **lovelydivot** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:10 pm

I'm gonna need a boat you guys - a very large one.

Someone tell Kode9...

punt - ghost of the grid iron

scooby-doo reference...sometimes I don't even understand my own brain - and I have to go research it...

My brain is going ...She's got a ticket to ride...She's got a ticket to rah-ha-hide...

lovelydivot · Post by **lovelydivot** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:42 pm

Wait a minute - I'm not asking for boats...

I'm asking for access to state of the art - boat manufacturing facilities...plus the knowledge to do it.

I'm just going to say - NOT EASY

and I don't mean knowing "how" to make it once you know how...that's just details
I'm talking about the fucker standing at the door...

YOU bank on him - whoever the fuck him actually is - letting you in.

Is this him!? Is this my "Boss"....I move to Brooklyn

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is it this guy...I move to Colorado

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lovelydivot · Post by **lovelydivot** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:35 am

I'm obviously doing something wrong - I'll just figure it out later.
..with Later being the operative word there...

But in the meantime...

I just finished reading "The Island of Dr. Moreau"

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:18 pm

An Insider's View of The Myths & Truths About 3D Printing

DRTY · Post by **DRTY** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:24 pm

tbh. I don't get the fucking fuss for 3D printing. I can't imagine many useful things coming out of one in the home

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Thu Nov 21, 2013 8:23 pm

^ Oh yeah? How about a stereo microphone?

wub · Post by **wub** » Thu Nov 21, 2013 8:26 pm

DRTY wrote:tbh. I don't get the fucking fuss for 3D printing. I can't imagine many useful things coming out of one in the home

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/0 ... 14217.html

Dad makes his son a prosthetic hand out of 3D printed parts, for a total cost of something like $10, instead of the tens of thousands a factory made one would have cost.

Shum · Post by **Shum** » Thu Nov 21, 2013 11:14 pm

10 years time: Otaku prints girlfriend.

lovelydivot · Post by **lovelydivot** » Fri Nov 22, 2013 12:10 am

That printed hand did not cost $10...

Maybe that's the cost of the base amount of plastic - but not the printing....

- nor the technology that the original cad designer was playing with...

I am glad that someone has posted the files for free though...
If anything should be free - it's stuff like that...

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:44 pm

We'll be 3d printing human hearts within 10 years, they say...

kay · Post by **kay** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:42 pm

Print your own lab equipment

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:45 pm

alphacat wrote:We'll be 3d printing human hearts within 10 years, they say...

So we'll have them in like.. what? 5 years?

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:29 pm

Student-made Deltaprintr surpasses the Makerbot Replicator 2 at a quarter of the price

Kickstarter Link

Nihilism · Post by **Nihilism** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:44 pm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2429243,00.asp

So it means that i can finally print a mask.

lovelydivot · Post by **lovelydivot** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:05 pm

Did I ever show you guys this?

This is another 3D technology - not 3D printing but 3D milling....

It has slightly more complex limitations - but half the functional/mechanical issues of printing...

You start out with a CAD file and a solid block of material....
and the machine carves the item using super fine blade like drills....

The above illustaration - is of a photograph that I tweeked and uploaded...
..then set the program to assign depth points topographically...
to carve a cameo type reproduction of the photo....

But you can do full in-the-round type things with these machines...
as well as reliefs...

You just can't have undercuts or complex linkages or moving parts
or complicated interior spaces - hollowness etc.

Still an expensive machine.

The above is carved in Formica - kitchen countertop material....
but you can do wood - all kinds rigid plastics/acrylics...

Most of these machines are for prototyping...
or are the first step in a more complex manufacturing process...

like - you may carve a cameo - then make a vulcaniced mold for waxes from it...
to then bang out multiple waxes - for casting into metal...

Terpit · Post by **Terpit** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:19 pm

frank grimes jr. wrote:You are the most ridiculous human on the planet.

this guy needs to come back imo

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