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Re: 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges
Thank You for continuing to bring us information on the subject, Roger So fascinating!
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damn I love SL, wish I woulda gotten into it while I was still in school. I love how you can make shapes that are literally impossible to make in one piece with any cnc no matter how advanced it may be.
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Fresh ideas are like a breath of fresh air. Very Inspiring.
This is one for the bookmarks & videos to share folder
Thanks for the post, Animator!
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$75 for a handheld extrusion device doesn't seem too bad, now if I was only slightly artistic...
Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:31 pm
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I might be a dick, but does everything they make in that video look like shit? I'll give them cool idea but I could take a bunch of wire and bend them for the same result.
I'm guessing the gun would burn kids (thinking it works like a glue gun) otherwise I'd say it was cool for kids crafts.
Thank you for starting this thread. Such a fascinating technology! Soon we'll all have "replicators" (as in Star Trek ) in our homes. I was just listening to a 3D radio discussion by Chris Anderson:
2:00 am Radio Specials Chris Anderson: The Maker Revolution Chris Anderson's book "The Long Tail" chronicled how the Web revolutionized and democratized distribution. His new book "Makers" shows how the same thing is happening to manufacturing, with even wider consequences, and this time the leading revolutionaries are the young of the world. Anderson himself left his job as editor of Wired magazine to join a 22-year-old from Tijuana in running a typical Makers firm, 3D Robotics, which builds do-it-yourself drones.
He described how his daughters begged him to buy doll-house furniture for them, and how difficult it was to find just the right sized toys to fit in their doll house. Instead, they went on to Thingiverse
Looked for doll house stuff they wanted, downloaded the thingi-file, scaled the model to fit their particular doll house, and then "printed" out the toys! The girls then hand painted them, and you can imagine how much more these toys mean to them. Instead of "consuming", it was a "creative" project. What a concept! Really exciting stuff! Now, how about making a Thingi-file for goga-like toys (please upload your file to the website if you do!). Can you imagine filling your kitchen or entire house with a whole herd of them!!! You customizers would go hog-wild, the price of blanks would come down considerably. Just waiting for these new fangled printers for home use, to get pass the "beta" stage, and then... the possibilities are endless. FYI, they also have 3D printers that use sugar to make food-grade objects!
Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:19 pm
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Re: 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges
Michael Weinberg just put up this very informative overview about copyright and 3D printing:
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The perfect news to end the night too.
Thank You, David
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With the rise in accessibility to rapid prototyping technology and software, you can expect plenty of totally unnecessary things in the future.
We're grown men (mostly) on a Japanese toy messageboard . . . we don't need no steeenkin' rapid prototyping technology to fulfil our need for totally unnecessary things!
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So fascinating!
) in our homes. I was just listening to a 3D radio discussion by Chris Anderson:
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You customizers would go hog-wild, the price of blanks would come down considerably. Just waiting for these new fangled printers for home use, to get pass the "beta" stage, and then... the possibilities are endless. FYI, they also have 3D printers that use sugar to make food-grade objects! 
