[LINK] 3D Print Toilet Parts to Save the Planet?

[Rachel Polanskis]

Someone will soon find a reason to make 3D printers indictable, restricted or berated 
somehow as a socialist or terrorist plot.

http://www.newser.com/story/159720/these-actually-exist-3d-printed-guns.html

I am thinking about acquiring a 3D printer, to make replacment parts for certain gadgets,
but I need the right plastics.  I figure there is a small market for these along with odd artistic one offs,
model kits, train sets etc.  One day I think it will be possible to take a holographic laser image from your
phone, upload the model, edit and publish to reality.  Now how do I patent what I just said?!


rachel

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rachel polanskis 
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<grove at zeta.org.au>

On 24/01/2013, at 17:42, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:30 AM, tomk <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Does each 3D printer get a free at home chemistry set with a bag of
>> rubber tree seeds from the seed vault to be able to grow a rubber tree,
>> mix the correct (See below for choices) compound, harden it and include
>> lubricant graphite and mould into the appropriate shape for 3D printing
>> and a suggestion list by toilet model as to the appropriate ingredients  ?
> 
> Of course it doesn´t. That´s why the ´let´s 3D print the world´ is a pipe dream.
> Most of the cheap 3D printers use the same kind of plastic as source
> as "hot glue guns"... which produces slightly flexible parts. Great
> for reproducing toy parts and toy soldiers, but little else that needs
> to be subject to extreme pressure or force.
> 
> Call me when the IT industry comes with sub-$500 desktop plastic
> extruder, or sub-$200 CNC machine. (There´s a $500 CNC machine
> already, and I´d take that over a melted plastic ´3d printer´
> anytime)... see below:
> 
> http://t.co/7XL32Y9m
> FC
> 
> 
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