Innovative 3d printer

[ant123]

http://www.wimp.com/functionaltools/

[David Makin]

Astounding ! Am looking into these - to at least find someone with one who'll take on 3rd party projects.

[ant123]

you mean 3rd party, as in getting hold of a 3d printer ? here is another video with 3 different types of 3d printer in one building.

one of my faves has to be the paper printing process, because came across a website that had 2 meter tall pillars of some kind of intricate gothic patterns made generatively and printed by a maths tutor at his university using a printer and paper and glueing them together. i posted it somewhere... Hey look here are the pillars: http://vi.sualize.us/tag/column/

technically you could make a robot to do it using an ordinary laser/air blowing thing and some A3 papers, if you had that much time!

there is also a lego technic 3d printer video on google.

[ant123]

surely you could modify an ordinary printer to cut paper instead of printing it, like put a cellulose corrosive chemical in the nozzle instead of ink... paper is so cool cos it's like wood, like you have a 3d wood printer:)

i expect there are a bunch of doods somewhere on the internet figuring out ways to mod normal printers so they make cuts of paper, then just feed in a design, print 1 meter pile of paper and glue them together.

ok here is one guy making a DIY printer using plaster, rather too technical!

http://www.indoor.flyer.co.uk/3dprint.htm

also some diy 3d printers on youtube

[Yesiamjames]

Astounding ! Am looking into these - to at least find someone with one who'll take on 3rd party projects.

i.materialise does 3rd party printing and they have a plugin for google sketchup. There's also rep-rap which is an open source 3d printer which you can build yourself for about $300.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://i.materialise.com/

I am very impressed with this design though, the resin/powder idea is exellent.

[Mrz00m]

seems like people are printing iphone covers, so if you were crazy you could make some fractal iphone covers from m3d

and just had to put in this amazing 3d print of a skull!