bstach Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 PBS Off Book thinks so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I'm 3D printing an army of Tvash replicants right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 the pocket-pudding porn industry will certainly tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_White Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Only if I can print a better heel bail for my crampons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 actually, on 2nd thought, 98% of the future advancement in this field no doubt will be made by the porn industry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 You think 2D ink is expensive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crux Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I'm 3D printing an army of Tvash replicants right now. Yes, but when it comes to really sophisticated items, the software required by the printer may be so complicated to write that doing so will be cost prohibitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crux Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 That said, I understand Kevbone downloaded via bittorrent the code to create a fully working copy of Eddie Van Halen. Just sayin' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I'm still waiting for the 2D printers to work properly most of the time and for the speed of light to express itself in all computing. Mysteriously 186,000 miles per second becomes 186,000 nanometers per second in my computer. Â Tech breakthroughs apparently are in hacking and infecting rather than printing. It can only get worse in 3-D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_White Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 3-D Printing: because the world doesn't have enough cheap plastic crap already  Folks are always all excited about this stuff on boing boing, but when you look at it they're talking about plastic train replicas and how to smooth a little plastic animal figurine. I don't need a 3-D printer, what I need is a toaster that won't burn whatever I put in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 3D printing has been around for decades. It's always been limited to a very few materials - mostly plastics of a pretty generic nature. It's a slow process. Real slow. I've completed only several toes of my first Tvashbot after hundreds of hours of printing. The highly irregular toenails were extremely difficult to get right. Â Nanobots and bioengineered self replicating systems will pass 3 D printers by they were standing still, which is about as fast as they ever move on a good day. Â The buzz around 3 D printers has more to do with Twitter than technology, really. Other than finer resolution and an open source design for the printers themselves (hyper geeks only), there's very little new under the sun here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crux Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 He got Organovo, he got toenail footjam, he say one and one and one is 3D, one thing I can tell you is about DDD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 http://americablog.com/2013/02/3d-print-gun.html  this is one way they are changing the world right now. print the regulated portion of the gun at home... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Plastic picks for indoor dry tooling. Now printing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 I'm 3D printing a singularity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crux Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Â Singularities are aid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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