[LINK] O/T - 3D Printing or re-inventing our manufacturing base.
David Boxall
david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Thu Aug 4 14:15:01 AEST 2011
On 4/08/2011 6:42 AM, Tom Koltai wrote:
>> From an article in NewScientist Magazine: [1]
>
> Quote/
> 3D printing has come on in leaps and bounds since its origins as an
> expensive prototyping tool over two decades ago. It uses laser-assisted
> machines to fabricate plastic or metal objects, building up the item
> layer by layer, each slice just 100 micrometres thick.
>
> To do this, the 3D printer first slices up an object's computerised
> design into hundreds of easily printable layers....
Given the IT involved, not really O/T.
Me, I'm hanging out for my nanofactory:
<http://www.foresight.org/nano/nanofactories.html>
> The cost of most manufactured products, especially the most complex and currently most expensive ones, like computer chips, will be reduced toward a bottom limit set by the costs of the raw materials ... Perhaps the most significant cost component will be product design.
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