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A Wearable 3D printed Dress

UHFUHF Posts: 515
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I thought this was pretty cool so I just had to share;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdRswasftfI

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    thanks yeah that is so cool. About time they got a printer on the space station too. I so love this stuff.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited December 1969

    3D printers are really taking off... The BestBuy store near me just started selling $900 units.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    That didn't take long for the prices to drop.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited December 2014

    I just went to Best Buy's website... Apparently they sell many brands of 3D printers.
    They range in price from $7000 to $500...
    I remember the first 3D printer I saw, back in 94'... It was an SLA printer (moving lasers converging in a vat of resin to catalyze the material,layer by layer)... It was the size of a fridge, could only make objects smaller than a shoebox, and cost well over $500,000...
    Not to mention the print quality was right around "gnawed out by drunken hamsters"...
    Vendors should take note and have plans for when prices hit the $300 mark... That will be the same point were inkjet took off.
    Lots of new people will start to look into 3D models...
    It's coming soon... That $500 printer has pretty decent specs.

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,313
    edited December 1969

    We are looking at getting one to print some of our stuff

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited December 1969

    That is really cool, they have come a very long way. I kind of have not followed 3d printing, as I have limited places to pile up all the things I could make where I live.

    The last time I had read about the tech, was with the NEAR-Shoemaker mission. They had a 3D module of the asteroid printed up, so they could better understand the problems of trying to establish an orbit around the tumbling oblong rock. I thought that was cool back then.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979
    edited December 1969

    lordvicore said:
    I just went to Best Buy's website... Apparently they sell many brands of 3D printers.
    They range in price from $7000 to $500...
    I remember the first 3D printer I saw, back in 94'... It was an SLA printer (moving lasers converging in a vat of resin to catalyze the material,layer by layer)... It was the size of a fridge, could only make objects smaller than a shoebox, and cost well over $500,000...
    Not to mention the print quality was right around "gnawed out by drunken hamsters"...
    Vendors should take note and have plans for when prices hit the $300 mark... That will be the same point were inkjet took off.
    Lots of new people will start to look into 3D models...
    It's coming soon... That $500 printer has pretty decent specs.

    The ink will probably be expensive though, as usual...

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