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The Genius of the Lego Printer
Barence writes "If you've ever struggled to build anything more complex than a cube of Lego, this will blow your mind. It's a fully functioning Lego printer, complete with felt tip print head."
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That will take a CAD drawing and build me a Lego model from it. :p
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I bet this is more reliable than any printer HP ever put out. I'm certain the cost of ink is cheaper.
Love all the little minifigs scattered around the machine.
Not a typewriter
You mean "it's 1,000 times cheaper than inkjet".
Since OSX uses CUPS as its core printer driver system, I suspect it wouldn't be terribly difficult to make it run on Linux.
I thought it was a 3D printer that printed LEGO bricks themselves.
Plotters draw vectors. Based on the demo this is pretty clearly raster-based. Don't let the way it holds the ink fool you; it's a printer.
I thought it printed LEGO creations from LEGO blocks.
Y’know, your average 3D printer... but with LEGO bricks.
That would be cool.
I love how a 3D printer is now referred to as "an average 3D printer [no big deal]".
I'm stilled quite fascinated by that technology...
Yup. More like a 1-pin dot matrix printer. But oh-so-wonderful!
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
i hate to say it but building a space station is nothing to boast about.millions of people (including me) made shite lego space stations as a child. on the other hand, desigining a lego printer, then designing a control mechanism to interface to a computer then designing your own printer driver has not been done by too many people.
SURELY NOT!!!!!