When you consider cars are well over 100 years old, yes, this tech is certainly in it's infancy. And we still have wrecks in cars...
When you consider cars are well over 100 years old, yes, this tech is certainly in it's infancy. And we still have wrecks in cars...
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What we need are cars made out of memory steel that after a fender bender, you just through cold, or maybe its hot water, on it and the metal springs back to its origonal shape.
"James, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!" World's scariest Volvo: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKn-LTNa4rc[/url]
3D prototyping has been around for awhile. I've seen some of it. When I was going to the local community colleage in the early 2000's there was a guy that used it to build his physics project. He worked for an automotive supplier, and had access to it......... made a pretty cool little boat that demonstrated something or other.
Audio_by_Goodwill
Michigan, USA
No argument about prototyping. It likely competes FOR SOME THINGS there. But until it can produce a durable product at a comparable price to other methods...it's not commercially viable. The thousand dollar el cheapo printer does not do much, I'd get more fun looking for the best deal on what that would get me in old Altecs. And that's all it is for the average user- a fun project.
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From what little i gleaned of thermoplastics in my time in the injection molding industry this will require a whole new breed of thermoplastics and/or the "printing" will need to take place in an inert gas environment.But until it can produce a durable product at a comparable price to other methods...it's not commercially viable.
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Spot on Bowtie. It's not fully developed as far as materials. But is has a ton of applications. Lose a knob on your electronics? Broken plastic on an appliance? just go to your local hardware, they can D/L the design and make it for you. Or dream up your own and take it in, just like you can go to Kinko's to have a resume printed out.
We would never be short horn adapters again- just have a member who has one take it in to have the design digitized and email it to you...
When we can do that even I will have to admit it's arrived. But you may need a hereafter phone to call me and gloat.
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