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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.

5 of 426 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I wonder by FLEB · · Score: 3, Informative

    RTFA? It can run on chocolate or Play-Doh.

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  2. Re:Heard of Youtube? by soapee01 · · Score: 3, Informative

    ok. fab@home video

  3. Re:Heard of Youtube? by KermodeBear · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fab@Home Video on YouTube, as requested.

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  4. The article is incorrect by NitsujTPU · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hod Lipson is a professor at Cornell University, not Carnegie Mellon, and the Cornell shield is completely visible in the photo, as are the words "Cornell University."

  5. Re:Can't say much more than by AnyoneEB · · Score: 5, Informative

    Idiot, of course it didn't work!

    The command is "Tea, Earl Grey, hot". Duh.

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