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A 3D Printer On Every Desktop?

Posted by kdawson on from the abs-fab dept.

holy_calamity writes "Two Cornell researchers have designed an open source 3D printer that costs just $2,400. The self-assembly kit is part of what they call the Fab@Home project — they hope it will spark development of rapid prototyping for the consumer market in the same way the Altair 8800 did for personal computing in seventies." Here is a video showing a completed machine constructing a silicone bulb (16-MB WMV).
Update: 01/10 04:02 GMT by KD : The developers of this kit are at Cornell, not Carnegie Mellon University as the original post erroneously stated.

6 of 426 comments (clear)

  1. Linking a 16 MB vid from the /. frontpage... by PsyQo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet they are printing a new webserver right now.

  2. Tea, earl grey, hot! by McGoon76 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nuf said...

  3. Re:Amazing by MyHair · · Score: 5, Funny
    If I was very cynical I would say this could end capitalism itself :)


    Capitalism will end when I can print a blow job.
  4. No problem by jspoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever you get close to running out of material, print another cartridge.

  5. Re:Can't say much more than by Jon+Kay · · Score: 5, Funny

    > fab("Earl Grey, Hot");

    Lemme guess - you got a liquid that was almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea.

  6. Re:hmmmmm by PRC+Banker · · Score: 5, Funny
    Three is a number under ten. Therefore it should be spelled out using letters.
    You do realise that 10 is not under 10? Therefore why do you spell it with letters?
    --
    Oh.