This is incredible.
It’s an amazing way to fabricate parts. The 3D scanner creates a digital model of any part from one of Jay’s many old cars. The part takes 20 minutes to scan and reverse model and 3 hours to print in plastic.
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My school has one of these printers, we use it for prototyping and modeling.
Oh man this is awesome. Anyone have a spare $10,000?
I have one of these next engine 3d scanners on my desk and either I can’t figure out how to use it or it just sucks. I have found that for most parts that I would be scanning I can draw them faster and more accurate then the scanner can.
Why would you copy the part to bring it to the machinist? Bring him the original!
Go beyond printing parts for some old car. This is where it is at:
http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
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These plastic printers are pretty crazy. I believe that industry hasn’t really tapped into their potential and power yet – they are a great invention with presently very limited applications. It’s like the old WAP mobile phones, before iPhone arrived … the new gen plastic printers will have the same concept, but executed completely differently and will be much more successful.