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15-Year-Old Developing a 3D Printer 10x Faster Than Anything On the Market
New submitter jigmypig writes: One of the main issues with 3D printers today is that they lack in one area; speed. A 15-year-old boy named Thomas Suarez is developing a 3D printer that he says is the most reliable, most advanced, and faster than any 3D printer on the market today. In fact he claims it is 10 times faster than any 3D printer ever created. "There's something that makes me want to keep going and keep innovating," he says, laughing at being asked if he'd be better off outside climbing trees or riding a bike. "I feel that my interests will always lie in technology. Maybe I should go outside more but I just really like this stuff."
What 15 year old is outside climbing trees and riding bikes? Maybe they meant to ask if his time might be better spent hanging out at the mall and texting his friends.
Great claims. Nothing to back them up.
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One of the main reasons 3D printers are slow is that bad things happen when you try to go too fast, such as warping. Unless he's created a new material, he's not going to fix that.
Sure, speed would be nice, but this is not really true:
3D printers lack in a whole lot of areas, and speed is not at the top of the list. There are a ton of things that you can't do with a 3d printer because the parts are too large, too intricate, need different materials than 3d printers can handle, or are too expensive to 3d print. As more of those problems are solved, the range of things you can plausibly 3d print expands significantly. Now once you can print something in 12 hours, it's great if you could print it in 2 hours or 20 minutes instead, but just being able to do it at all is the biggest step.
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It would be nice if there was a video, picture, or something to substantiate all of these claims.
I welcome advances in this field, but the wunderkind trope has been played too many times lately
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Call me when he actually made one.
All Silicon Valley big shots got to where they are by self promoting things and making big claims.
Look at the current darling of SV - Musk - he's been saying shit about puting people on Mars.
And this kid? Who knows? Maybe he's gonna do it with Legos.
Generally, if they have to hype the age of the person developping it, it's because there's not a whole lot of substance there. Call me when he ships something interesting.
Eddie Krassenstein and cohorts, have been at this constantly for the past months. They have made up so many stories, which lack any kind of verification. Do not trust anything that comes from 3Dprint.com. It's just a bunch of marketing assholes trying to make their web-property more valuable by pumping out bullshit that people scoop up and retransmit. Slashdot, please don't stoop this low.
No proof of concept but this kid doesn't have one either. Where's MY article?
Like a lot of other people have stated right now Speed really isn't an issue. It isn't like you need to be tethered to your 3D printer the whole time it is doing its thing. You just have to make sure it gets the first layer to adhere and then you can pretty much go do anything else while it does its finishes up. Popping in to check on it once and a while to make sure everything hasn't gone pearshaped.
Even for really lengthy prints (4-5hrs+) it still beats the heck out of ordering parts and the week+ for them to arrive.
What 3D printers really need is better resolution and reliability.
*cough* bullshit *cough*
Get ready to travel through time and eat cake while you do it!
My company with patent pending technology will let you travel through time while eating cake.
Our first model will provide chocolate cake. But additional versions already planned will offer carrot, cheese, and even ice cream cake. We even have versions that include pie while you time travel. Pie.
Seriously though... and no disrespect to the kid, I'd love to see how he's proposing to do it. If he's come up with something no one else has thought of yet then I hope he can monetize it because that would be pretty great.
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I have an idea for a different kind of 3D printer, but have not had the funds to make it real. I am sure there is tons of good ideas out there that never reach market simply because people don't have the resources to make them happen. With a huge segment of the world population trying to figure out where the next meal is coming from its easy to see how a large number of great world changing ideas never make it anywhere.
I've seen far too many "whizkid makes incredible invention" turn out to be "parent's pet project attributed to kid for fame and glory". School science projects are not meant to be an exercise in outsourcing to parents either.
Great, so now we highlight articles about children that are patenting a product even though his main source of experience is based off open source designs.
I count this as a great loss in humanity.
Is it similar to the KAST 3D Printer?
Frankly, I'm putting better hopes into this kind of technology, for single-material printing. It's like a RepRap is an old plotter and the KAST is a laser printer that can print the whole page at the same time.
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One of the main issues with time machines today is that they lack in one area; speed. A 14-year-old boy named Hidalgo Esteban Churrovar is developing a time machine that he says is the most reliable, most advanced, and faster than any time machine on the market today. In fact he claims it is 10 times faster than any time machine ever created. "There's something that makes me want to keep going and keep innovating," he says, laughing at being asked if he'd be better off in a tech start-up building 3D printers or respecting the laws of physics. "I feel that my interests will always lie in making unsubstantiated claims. Maybe I should do actual things more but I just like someone finally paying attention to me."
1. Make unsubstantiated claims.
2. Read Slashdot responses for ideas on how to actually do it.
3. Patent, but don't actually do it.
4. Someone else independently does it.
5. Sue.
6. Profit!
Steps 3-5 may be replaced with actually doing it, but I'm too jaded...
Exactly. And something to back up the contrary.
Another teen ""genius"". Big media is pushing these guys all the time, probably to fuel another tech bubble to be popped so that the legitimate businesses (i.e. not this guy) can be bought up on the cheap. Same'ol same'ol ...
Though that marketing video, while "snazzy", is pretty pedestrian, as marketing videos go.
There are some bona fide "kid geniuses" out there who have done amazing things (though many with lots of help from family/friends/other adult geniuses). That said, there are 100 times more who talk a good line, but have nothing to show for it.
I'll wait until I see the goods before I pronounce anyone "kid genius".
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I hope he doesn't use his teeth to create 3D objects.
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What...the high intensity youtube video with techno-music and flying text wasn't enough proof?
Man, what are they gonna have to do to get through to you... make it work or something?
Slashdot needs to knock it off with these "Child genius is going to totally upstage all those stupid companies and make something amazing!" stories they run some time. The thing is, they are essentially never true and we as geeks should know better.
Smart kids often have the problem of thinking they know everything. They have the brains to be well above their peers at pretty much everything, and so have a confidence in their knowledge and intelligence, but lack the experience to understand the limitations of both in the larger world. Hence they'll think that they have found an "obvious" solution to a problem in the world that nobody else has managed to think of. I'm sure most of us felt like that at one time or another as children.
However, it turns out that smart kids become smart adults, and those smart adults get job making the thing we use, solving the problems we have, and so on. So, usually if there's something that hasn't been solved, the reason is that there is NOT a simple solution. There isn't something that a kid will just say "Oh look, here's a better way to do it." Rather it is a complex problem and thus the solutions are complex.
So Slashdot needs to quit with stories on shit like this unless there' something to back it up. A printer actually gets released based on this kids design? Ok that's a story. Some kid says he can do way better than anyone else? That's not a story. That is, to quote the Reapers, "A confidence borne of ignorance." It's not news.
I am skeptical. If you're using FDM, I think that in order to print 10X faster, you can't use either ABS or PLA. The print head of the machine will have to be very low mass, which also rules out plastics with high melt temperatures like ABS and PLA. I don't think FDM printing can achieve a 10X speed increase.
If you go to stereolithography where you're using a projector to harden a photopolymer, you might achieve a 10X speed increase with the right chemistry and the right light source.
Without any evidence of what the kid is doing or even knowing if he has built an operational prototype, meh. All sorts of people claim all sorts of stuff on the internet without backing any of it up.
Every few years we come across one of these articles where some teen claims an amazing breakthrough
16yr old and Encryption
17yr old nuclear bomb detector Note that he claims he built a nuclear reactor when he was 14..
Can I get an article if I write a blog when I discuss some unsubstantiated claims that my golden retriever has found a way to increase the aerial density of a HD by 100x based upon chew marks in a shank bone?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Current machines take an entire day or more to print something. It's not at all hard to believe that someone got it down to an hour for a 3" * 3" print. In fact, I'd be surprised if someone DIDN'T do that very soon.
Because he's claiming to have done something that I fully expected someone to do rather soon, I don't see any reason to think he's lying.
I had already started construction on a spaceship, planned to start a multinational company, and spent a lot of my time thinking about the girl who sat next to me in biology class.
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It can print any model with 1x1x1 definition, up to 2x2x2, each time it goes out...
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Crumb bouncing, you just have to drum your hands on the tray attached to a baby chair and the crumbs dance around and can even make patterns due to resonance.
I think he is a genius, and he has been able to demonstrate his invention too.
I was going to say wake me up when he has a production-grade model that's still the most reliable, most advanced, and faster than any 3D printer but the kid gets major style points for the Bustin Jeiber game.
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Very much so.
Hardware is difficult for experienced engineers. I think really smart kids (of which this may be one) should think more in terms of software, perhaps even embedded software. This is an area that a teenager who lacks real hardware engendering knowledge can excel.
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FTA: “Recently I applied for a patent on 3D printing,” Suarez told BBC in an interview.
Okay, give us the application number so we can actually see what you've done and see if there's any prior art. A cursory search of the USPTO application database returns nothing at all for Thomas Suarez as the inventor, nor for any Suarez in either Los Angeles or Manhattan Beach, the given (residential) address for CarrotCorp.
I really hope this kid has stumbled onto something good, but everyone seems content to just take him at his word without anything to substantiate his claims.
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I can't be the only one who saw this and thought, well sure a 15 year old can make a better faster 3D printer. Most of the reason I haven't bought one myself has been how underwhelmed I have been by the quality and results.
The only ones where I thought there precision and accuracy were useful were the UV/Near-UV plastics that operated on DLP lithographic principles. The consumables for those had too narrow of a usage range and ridiculous cost scales. The Makerbot and similar ABS extrusion machines are just dog slow, and get slower with increased complexity, not to mention consumables in the still silly price range.
Building something better and faster is easily within reach, and most of the commercial $10-100k models overcome all of the weaknesses of hobbyist / consumer offerings. Bringing some of the commercial speed optimizations (multiple nozzles) and such is trivial given the weak position of the hobby market hardware.
Smooth and strong is what I want.
When we have a printer that can print copies of itself then this will really take off. Good bye Patent system?
"I am the CEO / CFO / Sales Director" ... dude, you are 11, calling yourself a CxO is just lame. Also who of you does the coding with your fancy titles?
Of the younger generations thinking they've got it all. Stay in business for 20 or 30 years like us seniors. Then, maybe, just maybe, we might listen to you. Oh and dont think for a moment that any if these newly hyped's are any smarter than the rest of us. Like Zuckerberg, Brin, Page etc. They just had the luck of being in the right place at the right time, namely in Silicon Valley. Much harder to get sonething going and growing if you don't have access to hundreds of mUSD. In other words, give me 100mUSD and I'll achieve wonderfull things, too.
Is it only me that read as the kid developing the 3D printer 10x faster than before instead of the printer printing 10x faster?
Maybe you have trouble fitting in because you're an insufferable twat? Thats how you come across here. In my exerience the most intelligent people I know tend to be the most popular, so perhaps the problem is with you?
He said "shank bone".
These printers come in 3 broad types, melt a fiber , sinter a granule and cross link monomers.
The melt a fiber you can make fastter with a jet of cold air/gas or water so the print head can pass that way again sooner, or run in a cold box = faster colling.
The trivial answer of a 20 nozzle print head = been done.
The sinter a granule, more power in laser to aggregate more granules?
Monomer cross linking, higher power laser, more reactive monomer?
I find it hard to achieve a ten fold speed ramp with rate limited physical processes standing in the way of speed ups.
Thomas Suarez related to Luis Suarez...?
I think its understandable for people to be sceptical on the claims made, as would be the case of any other person working out of their bedroom. It's unfortunate though that the main point of the article has been lost because of these claims. The point of the article seems to be celebrating the entrepreneurial nature of people from a young age. which is done the tech sector can only benefit from, regardless of weather this guy's printer sees the light of day.
Or he's developing it 10x faster?
If the latter, I'd like to see that.
my old $500 epson is not as fast as a $50 cannon, but it renders images better
To be fair, I wouldn't expect a cannon to render *any* images very well. On the other hand, it probably does better than an Epson in defending ships against pirate vessels. (Well, perhaps not a $50 model...)
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I hope this is not a question of learning using Open hardware and then going all Gosh this is clever... Yeah - I'll patent this so nobody else can utilize this improvement of the open technology unless they pay me, so what if I have sucked everything out of the freely available tech available to me.... is that the idea ? I seriously hope not and I also seriously hope he won't be selling this revolutionary patent out to some of the 3D trolls trying to patent everything 3D printwise and thus be part of stifling an industry still in it's birth... particularly as a user of open technology and someone who had learned using open technology I would seriously consider where to put my allegiances. Or perhaps he's pulling a Makerbot and deviating from the Open Philosophy... after all there is some brand affiliation it seems. 3D Print Developers need to put everything in the open describe every crazy idea they have about 3D printing to prevent the trolls... and now apparently also the kids from preventing 3D becoming what it has potential to be. A liberating technology breaking down the geolocated production monopolies, allowing each and every one of us to be our own creative geniouses unbound of the corporate stranglehold silly nilly trade agreements and IP shenanigans. @Thomas Suarez - If you're following the talk about your apparent technology, we'd like to see actual patent submissions so we can see if there's prior art to save you from a lot of trouble down the road and pricey laywer fees. Also it would be interesting to hear your take on Open Technology Development and 3D printing for instance. I surely hope I am misreading your intentions when you are pushing for a patent and trust you will be doing the right thing and participate in the open and free development of 3D printing technology - That is the way to win friends and influence people ;)
Best of luck with your endeavors!
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