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The State the Art of 3D Printers

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f0dder:
$40k is a lot of money, but not so many years ago the price was in the million range, and doing a print would cost several thousands of dollars... and even a big company as NKT didn't have their own, but shared one with another company.

Ralf Maximus:
Exactly!  And Darwin's link is bad-ass, demonstrating that once you have one fabricator you can use it to crank out as many as you want, which means at some point the landscape should be littered with 3D printers.  You'll have to configure them NOT to reproduce.

Target's CandyFab is brilliant, but I can't help musing...  the CandyFab uses a jet of hot air to fuse the sugar, which is great for low cost but makes the pixels freeking huge.  The results are incredibly cool looking but look like rejected props from a horror movie.

Could CandyFab be tweaked to handle a 100mw laser pointer?  These things are powerful enough to light a match, so it should be able to fuse sugar.  And the price is right: $600.

Then you'd have a low-end, high-resolution fabricator.

Lashiec:
Moar 3D printers

Target:

keep in mind this is a work in progress, and that cost and readily available components are key factors...

Could CandyFab be tweaked to handle a 100mw laser pointer?  These things are powerful enough to light a match, so it should be able to fuse sugar.  And the price is right: $600.
-Ralf Maximus (December 07, 2007, 07:43 AM)
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could be onto something here, but why not use the laser out of an 'old' cd/dvd burner (new price for cd\dvd burner is currently under $50 Au)

Target

goikozenner:
Looked into these a while ago too... Here are some interesting entries as well....

http://www.3dreplicators.com/

http://www.desktopfactory.com/

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