Wired.com checks out makerbot’s Cupcake CNC 3-D Printer. Using PLA, ABS, or HDPE plastic, this open source, $950 kit allows the user to fabricate small objects of virtually any shape.
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25 Responses to “Open Source 3-D Printer Turns Designs Into Objects”
They need to improve the output first, it puts out jagged crap; nothing like the other 3D printers on the market. Spend an extra $1500 and get a professionally made 3D printer which prints good models not jagged crap.
@chrisdude1001: Apart from assuming that it will be made for your sole personal use, you could also take a look in the video at 01:42 and see that the platform which moves the materialized 3D object, actually has a pretty happy face
I’d like to see places like Lowes and Home Depot offer network-based 3D printing. Similar to printing photos at your local Walgreens, this would eliminate the cost of purchasing a device for occasional use.
@xevious2501 There is a bit of a difference between wearing a pair of glasses for a 3-D effect and something that reproduces a 3-D solid object. Maybe.
Nothing new about 3D printers. been on the market for years. amazing how people think this stuff is new, what hole have you guys been in.
The big Stereoscopic 3d fluff. nothing new.. S3D gaming and eyeware has been aroung for ages, even back on the commodore64. i guess those were the things that made being a nerd so fun. everyone else was in the dark.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
They need to improve the output first, it puts out jagged crap; nothing like the other 3D printers on the market. Spend an extra $1500 and get a professionally made 3D printer which prints good models not jagged crap.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Dude, a bow tie? Really?
Please help us rid the world of the embarassment that is the bow tie by no longer wearing them
February 7th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
or a dildo that’s shaped like a shotgun Lol
February 7th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
except for the fact that this technology is old
February 7th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
except for the fact that this CES was last week.
February 7th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
i would make a shotgun and a dildo
February 7th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
PLASTIC PENISES.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
3 words…
Personalized Sex Toys ^_^
February 7th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
@chrisdude1001: Apart from assuming that it will be made for your sole personal use, you could also take a look in the video at 01:42 and see that the platform which moves the materialized 3D object, actually has a pretty happy face
February 8th, 2010 at 12:17 am
foozeball xD
February 8th, 2010 at 12:48 am
like the fact that in the old days i used to play a space shooter that sounded kinda like your nick :p
February 8th, 2010 at 12:50 am
not that type of engineer anyway! lol but i ment a commericial application.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:58 am
you clearly aren’t the engineer type, think of the prototype ability’s! test plastic things before making a expensive mound for it!
February 8th, 2010 at 1:39 am
I saw this 2 years ago…
February 8th, 2010 at 1:57 am
Yeah kinda cool i guess but i really can’t see much practical use for it!
February 8th, 2010 at 2:41 am
i would make a dildo
February 8th, 2010 at 3:32 am
I’d like to see places like Lowes and Home Depot offer network-based 3D printing. Similar to printing photos at your local Walgreens, this would eliminate the cost of purchasing a device for occasional use.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:16 am
too expensive…eventually you’ll get it right with putty lol
February 8th, 2010 at 4:34 am
thats stupid, it exist since a long time.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:17 am
@xevious2501 There is a bit of a difference between wearing a pair of glasses for a 3-D effect and something that reproduces a 3-D solid object. Maybe.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:50 am
Nothing new about 3D printers. been on the market for years. amazing how people think this stuff is new, what hole have you guys been in.
The big Stereoscopic 3d fluff. nothing new.. S3D gaming and eyeware has been aroung for ages, even back on the commodore64. i guess those were the things that made being a nerd so fun. everyone else was in the dark.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:28 am
WOW. YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
February 8th, 2010 at 6:30 am
Shut up! (hysterical, LOL)
February 8th, 2010 at 7:29 am
will it print a max file? or obj?
February 8th, 2010 at 7:52 am
My god, if one wire breaks in that, you’d be pissed..