Garda Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 i was introduced to a new emerging technology by a friend of mine last night. It's called reprap. Which i personally think kinda sucks as a name, but whatever. http://reprap.org/ it's kind of a 3D printer also, what makes it really cool is that it's GPLed and apparently reasonably cheap to make. Oh, and it also makes itself. the really cool idea that i had was that it uses a computer as input when manufacturing things, so you could imagine that it would be possible to email files of actual things to people that they just print of with their reprap for all you warhammer guys, imagine being able to email your little figurines to your friends, and print of as many of those obnoxiously expensive little things as you want. Think also, you could basically print off anything that can be represented 3 dimensionally in a computer, so suppose you want a model of Gorden Freeman on your desk, just print it off. I guess you kinda get the idea. Apparently you can build one already, it may be a little difficult, but i think the idea of the 1.0 release is to make it possible for somebody reasonable capable of making one for themselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Did someone say blender? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Doesn't that mean you could warez solid objects? It'll truely become useful when you can print food... which... I guess is almost possible, you'd just need the food in the machine in the first place for it to assemble it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 wow you people are only hearing about this now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Doesn't that mean you could warez solid objects?It'll truely become useful when you can print food... which... I guess is almost possible, you'd just need the food in the machine in the first place for it to assemble it. Or you could just use an edible material or something to mimic food while having ink cartridges with flavoring and such. I guess you could use tofu and cut it to look like the food than add flavor but the texture would really switch things up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Doesn't that mean you could warez solid objects?It'll truely become useful when you can print food... which... I guess is almost possible, you'd just need the food in the machine in the first place for it to assemble it. Or you could just use an edible material or something to mimic food while having ink cartridges with flavoring and such. I guess you could use tofu and cut it to look like the food than add flavor but the texture would really switch things up I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know your local butchers name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I do its Mr. Owen, why do you say that? cause I said tofu? Never eaten it in my life just seems like a weird food with weird texture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 no, because by the looks of it half of you wouldn't know how to cook a meal to save your life .. it's really surprising how many people eat box food. like this year for xmas we bought a live turkey at an auction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 /me puts down his McD's and mumbles with a mouthful of fries "whut?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 we bought a turkey which looked like and made it into the center piece for tomorrows dinner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keiyentai Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 /me makes his sushi for Xmas :D try to make Box Sushi ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I do fish you know. one e.g. [/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keiyentai Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 As do I. I need to go fishing someday. It;'s been to long and I miss fishing for Salmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 in that pic, its a rass about 5lb caught of the rocks at blackhead. you can also find salmon a little bit more down coast, but i prefer to go up coast to Portrush (beside Bushmills [some may recnoise that name]) were there is very large polock Portrush rocks(blue pool): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keiyentai Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 :? ok this is sad. I see that pic and Terragen is screaming "MODEL THAT WITH ME!"....I swear I have 3D on the brain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureZero Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 hmm turkey, not traditinal christmas dinner here. we have pinnekjøtt, sorry dont know what the correct name is in english: maybe ribbs in english? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 This is the point where I, being a moderator here, want to scream to you folks to stick to the topic. Problem is, I don't see much of a topic, even in the first post... :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Sure their is, that 3D printers are coming down in price and that soon we will all be able to print our own appliances. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 soon hardware makers will have to fear piracy... HEY! You can't print that!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 any one here got a 8800 torrent :P? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 wow you people are only hearing about this now? didn't PopSci do a piece on this a wile back? I know they did a cool bit on the bubble jets and printing of a cat hear that actually worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
careless223 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Finally the free PC that just works? Linux + printed hardware = one laptop per child? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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