We told you about MakerBot’s new 3D printer when they announced it. We showed you a hands-on video of how it cranks out beautiful plasticky toys. But what we haven’t shown you, until now? What’s inside the spaceship.
It turns out that while the MakerBot Replicator can print pretty much anything your heart desires, it positively excels at creating Lego-esque zombie nightmare humanoid astronauts.
Whether that’s worth $US2000 to you depends on how much you like Lego, zombies and astronauts. Which is to say, it’s very, very worth it.
29Dimensions
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 10:27 AMIt will be interesting to see, as this technology evolves, how it will affect issues in the material world. I can see copyright and IP issues spilling out from cyberspace when people start printing and selling things like Lego Minifigs or anything else. Will corporations try to ban the sales of 3D printers to protect their interests?
Matt
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 12:03 PMThe way this tech works will probably never be able to compete with injection moulding / roto moulding on a quality scale.
There are some very good 3D printers on the market which can already do ready-to-use parts, though they are approx $50k and are purely used for prototypes before the product is injection moulded, etc.
However I can see tech becoming a part of a lot of houses where people can use it to replace broken parts (e.g. that $50 peice of plastic that broke in your car, etc.)
Bruce
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6:00 PMThe UP 3D Printer has superior quality output and is used as a professional 3D printer, the “Smart Support” that the UP Printer uses no other low end 3D Printer company has. See the print gallery at http://www.3dprintingsystems.com.au