A 3D Printer On Every Desktop?

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 9, 2007 @11:03AM 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.

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Re:Heard of Youtube? by KermodeBear · 2007-01-09 11:50 · Score: 4, Informative

Fab@Home Video on YouTube, as requested.

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The article is incorrect by NitsujTPU · 2007-01-09 12:22 · 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."
Re:Can't say much more than by AnyoneEB · 2007-01-09 13:03 · Score: 5, Informative

Idiot, of course it didn't work!

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

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