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 Yartrebo · 2007-01-09 12:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well, Flash never plays on my system, while WMV might or might not depending on how old a version it is (usually doesn't). I haven't even been able to download a video from You Tube, no less actually manage to play it.

Now if it could be released in MPEG1, MPEG2, xvid/divx, or some other format that I can easily get an open source decoder for, then I might be able to view it.