3D Printers
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Kaoskadosk
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We all knew it would happen eventually.
They're already making prosthetic limbs with them... which is one of the careers I considered with my prosthetic makeup background. They're already talking about all kinds of applications for show biz too. I'm worried they're going to put all the props builders for movies out of work. :sad:
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It's just a tool. It'll be ok. The world didn't end when they invented the printing press or the loom or internal combustion engines or refrigeration. Quite the opposite. Those things created dramatically more jobs than they eliminated, despite the doomsayers of the time lamenting the end of days, sometimes even violently. Surely you've heard of the Luddites? Any time a game-changing technology shows up, similarly short-sighted and frightened groups do as well. Invariably, their fears turn out to be groundless as numerous new jobs are created and substantially more money is made.
A little closer to home for some here would be the introduction of inexpensive high-quality digital recordings, and the recording industry's subsequent rapid descent into irrelevancy. The music industry is doing better than it ever has, with sales figures continuing to climb annually, but the recording industry is having an increasingly difficult time trying to interest anyone in little plastic disks at ridiculous prices. What used to be scarce goods have become infinite goods, so the supply/demand ratio got destroyed. 50,000,000,000 copies of a work cost the same as 1, and every one is as good as the original, reducing the nominal cost to zero. Naturally, the labels are pitching a bitch, pretending there are hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of millions of jobs being lost. It's not true, of course. Laughably untrue, in fact. The money is just shifting from the gatekeepers to the creators, which pisses them off. So, they lobby congress in the US and the governments of other countries to pass protectionist laws in a futile attempt to maintain the status quo.
Oddly enough, the fight about it is itself creating millions of jobs as a whole new industry crops up to defend/prosecute intellectual property rights violations.
A little closer to home for some here would be the introduction of inexpensive high-quality digital recordings, and the recording industry's subsequent rapid descent into irrelevancy. The music industry is doing better than it ever has, with sales figures continuing to climb annually, but the recording industry is having an increasingly difficult time trying to interest anyone in little plastic disks at ridiculous prices. What used to be scarce goods have become infinite goods, so the supply/demand ratio got destroyed. 50,000,000,000 copies of a work cost the same as 1, and every one is as good as the original, reducing the nominal cost to zero. Naturally, the labels are pitching a bitch, pretending there are hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of millions of jobs being lost. It's not true, of course. Laughably untrue, in fact. The money is just shifting from the gatekeepers to the creators, which pisses them off. So, they lobby congress in the US and the governments of other countries to pass protectionist laws in a futile attempt to maintain the status quo.
Oddly enough, the fight about it is itself creating millions of jobs as a whole new industry crops up to defend/prosecute intellectual property rights violations.
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the tool is thinner and has this large hole in the bottom of the handle, but the printed version does not
now let me ask you this, how many hand held scanners can accurately be held at a height above an item to use the scan as an engineering database for size and shape?
look at 1:59 and 2:30 and tell me if that is a scan of that tool.
Just a few thought I had.
now let me ask you this, how many hand held scanners can accurately be held at a height above an item to use the scan as an engineering database for size and shape?
look at 1:59 and 2:30 and tell me if that is a scan of that tool.
Just a few thought I had.
I can quickly and easily add one of them 3d print heads to my cnc machine and be in business, in fact i'm already figuring out what i need to do it.
It would be great for mocking up a bridge/ saddle or something like an earvana style nut, as a simple cheap and of course brittle or flimsy proto-type
It would be great for mocking up a bridge/ saddle or something like an earvana style nut, as a simple cheap and of course brittle or flimsy proto-type
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I don't know. I wondered about that scanner, too, and want to call "shenanigans". But, I've had numerous occasions in the past to do "non-contact" gauging, and it's remarkable what you can do with inexpensive laser interferometry, hall effect devices, ultrasonics and the like. A little creative software and some math games to convert the data into another form that some sort of end effector, analyzer or graphics program can use, and Poof! You're manipulating things.
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