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    3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?

    New Printing Technology Makes Your Home Photos Into Spooky 3D Images

    Shapeways Allows You to Materialize Any 3D Object, Star Trek Style
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    Image of MaQ MaQ
    08/07/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    Finally !
    This is great for the mechanical revolution, making complex machinery.
    I'm kind of offended by those figures, I got nothing against them, but, to see them as the product of such advanced technology is blasphemy to me.
    Good news anyway
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    Image of eliblack eliblack
    08/07/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    Mold's? Seriously? Don't you guys have a copy editor?
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    08/07/09

    @eliblack: That's what happens when I get distracted by shiny things mid-sentence. Fixed. Thanks!
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08/07/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    My dad said he saw a metal ion deposition printer a decade ago at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Never heard what happened to that printer.
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    Image of tomsomething tomsomething
    08/07/09

    @FrankenPC: It sent itself 10 years into the future.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08/07/09

    @tomsomething: I wish it would have UPS'ed itself to my house instead. Nah...UPS would have trashed it.
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    08/07/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    I think this is laser sintering, and not the more advanced electron beam sintering. The voids left by the process of laser sintering here are filled with bronze, which creates a solid material. You would probably not want to create any load-bearing parts with this.
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    Image of hKris hKris
    08/06/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    I believe the printer is from ExOne. They can print all sorts of cool things in all sorts of metals. It's a really cool process that is being used in all sorts of ways.
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    08/06/09

    @hKris: All sorts, you say?
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    Image of hKris hKris
    08/06/09

    @qbrad: Yep. It's really cool when you look at some of the work. Here are a few examples:
    [www.bruvel.com]
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    08/06/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    Wow this is pretty impressive.
    If RepRap cold incorporate this then it'd be able to build alot more of itself.
    Admittedly the price is a tad high (I suppose it's reasonable for a new method) cos we pay like £10 for 10cm high figurines at our uni. Having them in steel would be pretty awesome though.
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    Image of ColonelGentleman ColonelGentleman
    08/06/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    square cm or cm cubed?
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    08/06/09

    @ColonelGentleman: Ah! Good catch. Fixed!
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    Image of MMBman7171 MMBman7171
    08/06/09

    In reply to 3D Printing Now Available in Stainless Steel, Adamantium Next?
    Dude, I would never have guessed this would be possible so soon. I wonder how the heck they do it with steel!!!??
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    08/06/09

    @MMBman7171: It's done in layers, alternating powdered steel and a binding material until the entire object is built up.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    08/06/09

    @MMBman7171: Yeah! You know what I think would be great? If at the end of every story, there was a link using some kind of Hypertext Transfer Protocol to lead you to something like an original story.
    I wonder if such a thing is possible.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    08/06/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: ♥'sSummermodo: You're....you're not being mean toward me? Does this mean you forgive me?
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    08/06/09

    @MMBman7171: It's called electron beam sintering, they've been doing it for a while now. No binding agent is required, they can actually FAA certify parts for flight with this method.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    08/06/09

    @Rosa Golijan: No, I respect your creative talents doing something I can't do, namely, write. So I will not just lash out at you. mmbman, who can not RTFA, however, will receive my fury.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    08/06/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: ♥'sSummermodo: Maybe you and I will get along after all.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/09/09

    In reply to New Printing Technology Makes Your Home Photos Into Spooky 3D Images
    So you want a plate that looks exactly like someone's face in 3D? You don't need this wonky process.


    Instead, just sit down the person whose likeness you wish to capture and, using a fresh Xacto knife, gently remove their face (slicing carefully around eye sockets and nostrils). Harden the fleshy mass in a bowl of acrylic polymer for 6 hours and you are rewarded for your efforts with a 3D plate that is not only quite realistic but dishwasher safe as well!

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    Image of Stikman008 Stikman008
    03/09/09

    @bosskev: So you take their face...off?
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    Image of CubFan81 CubFan81
    03/09/09

    @Stikman008: Yes, but you can just as easily put it back on and it'll be like nothing changed. Well, except maybe their voices, but I'm sure they can fix that too.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/09/09

    @CubFan81: "Yes, but you can just as easily put it back on and it'll be like nothing changed."


    Exactly right, nothing can change (or even move) as your face is frozen forever in its youthful beauty! Indeed, I'd say watch for Hollywood to latch onto this concept as the next Big Idea, a perfect replacement for Botox.

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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/09/09

    In reply to New Printing Technology Makes Your Home Photos Into Spooky 3D Images
    Kind of interesting but unless its price is fairly low, I cant see a widespread adoption.
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