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A 3D Printer On Every Desktop?
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.
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.
Ever thought about shoving your mac up your ass?
a hahahaha (laughing at you laughing at my Mac :)
Not really -- then my farts would smell like Apple's.
That and I have no interest in taking it up the ass. That's my wife's job.
Not to mention my Linux boxen would all be slightly jealous.
The virus, adware, trojan, and worm infected machines that come through my home (known to you probably by Windows) are only laughed at while they're here. Then we laugh all the way to the bank considering I'm doing 4-5 at a time at $100/pop per *DAY* now. That's just my side work -- you do the math.
Me? I'll shove a Mac in every room in the house. Wait, I already have. Last one to be placed will go with the new projector/theatre room and will be getting the new iTV.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
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.