I see what you mean. If I was poor, I'd choose to sleep under a bridge or to starve rather than take handouts. Therefore, I shouldn't have to pay taxes.
The only job for government is to bomb people and throw potheads in jail for a few decades, and in that case I'm hugely in favor of big government. Maybe this includes building freeways, but I'm not sure about maintenance or inspections. Aside from that I can teach my own kids, inspect my own meat, and I can drive myself to the hospital if I fall down the stairs or have a heart attack.
Also, if my house catches fire, it's my job to extinguish it. If some poor bastard's house down the way catches fire, that's his problem.
I've had enough with these fucking commies who want to take all my guns and money away.
Over at http://reprap.org/ we're up to version 2 (Mendel) on our diy matter duplicator-like things, and we've had Mendel make plastic parts for daughter Mendels. Not stepper machines or microcontrollers, dontchayaknow, but 'matter duplicator' is what we're aiming for.
3D printers require a little less expertise to operate than lathes or mills, which what Popular Mechanics readers used to use to make the things in the plans, back in the day.
Most of this discussion ignores the fact that curators and archivists have fiercely discussed and analyzed this very subject. I get 1.5 M (apparent) results when I google 'digital curation' and that's without querying amazon, google schoolar, a university library, etc.
Google 'digital curation'. It's like googling Ron Paul, but about digital curation.
A patron or institution may be willing to pay money for a figurine, small or large, when they may be disinclined to spend money a recorded film. (Just as with Penny Arcade, Spider Man, or LOTR figurines.)
The buyer can use a figurine differently from media, displaying it on a shelf or in a case, perhaps next to the recorded media or a screen playing the same.
For extra points, take the sculpt to an art bronze foundry and have them cast the piece as a bronze.
See "From Clay to Bronze: A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture" by Tuck Langland.
You can sculpt the piece by hand out of wax, oilclay, or sculpty if you don't have a 3D printer.
We would launch rockets whose end stages would have to match orbits and velocities with the ISS, and then a small team of astronauts would take hundreds/thousands/tens of thousands of hours to assemble the spacecraft, doing spacewalks and controlling robot arms. And then, once it is assembled, you would have to boost it up out of that orbit.
Launching it as one piece from the ground, you can time it and angle it right to catch favorable 'slingshot' trajectories to your planet/asteroid/etc. of interest, and you can have a much larger pool of non-spacesuited specialists assemble it. (This includes 'small' issues like a master welder not having to cross-train as an astronaut.)
Assembly in space makes sense once we start mining the asteroid belt and maybe the moon.
My question - is it feasible to boost the ISS to a more favorable orbit or one of the Lagrange points?
~$200, but a Vex robot kit
http://www.robotshop.ca/vexplorer-vexblue.html
A vex robot or lego mindstorms kit is cheap when you factor in how many hours he'll use it and what he'll learn from it.
The arduino boards mentioned above are also a good suggestion, but for books I'd start him out on Forrest Mims' electronics books and get a copy of Paul Scherz's "Electronics for Inventors" 2nd Ed. Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics" is a bit advanced for him.
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"Why do you need a shift key? To type capital letters, press capslock, type the letter(s) you need, and press caps lock again. And for !@#$%^&*()_+ and so on, you can select them through this menu."
While we're discussing missing features, I want an oilpaint brush, a pastel brush, and so on, like Corel Painter X. (Built in, not a filter.)
Start running a fab lab for the campus community - use a grant/your budget to get a laser cutter, vinyl cutter, desktop cnc router, and some soldering irons, and let students use them on their personal projects. This is already going on on other campuses and at community centers.
The best introduction is Neil Gershenfeld's book Fab. Carleton Library doesn't have a copy but email me,
(penguin at supermeta dot com), and I'll lend you mine, I'm in Ottawa.
Fussing that RepRap is not 'perfectly self-replicating' yet is an extremely common criticism. This pedantic but factually true statement glosses over the fact that it's a machine that cheaply and easily makes its own parts*, using inexpensive feedstock. And it can make other useful things. That's the important stuff, which your criticism fails to address.
*Aside from common stuff from a hardware store and an electronics store.
(Yes, I'm a RepRap developer, and yes, that's a cut-and-paste.)
This is very interesting. Unfortunately, it is going to be closed-source and patented.
Does anyone know any open-source projects to do object reconstruction from video or still photographs? I'm asking because my group is building a 3D printer. http://www.reprap.org/ (Self-link pimpage, etc. etc.) and I think it would be cool and useful to be able to capture a 3D model from photos or video of a sculpted maquette, pet cat, broken part, human, or so on.
(I just stumbled across this by googling "gpl object reconstruction", which may be relavant): https://ezra.dev.java.net/
People may be interested in http://splinescan.co.uk/ which is a gpl laser scanner hardware (pen laser, prism*, webcam, and turntable) + software project to do 3D object scanning.
I'll follow comment responses to this thread, but I also welcome emails: penguin at supermeta dot ihatespamtoo dot com
Note: I tried downloading sage, and had trouble at the very end, as I didn't have math fonts loaded.
I'll give it another try when I can apt-get install it.
I'll give it a try. Downloading the tarball now. I'd much rather have installed via apt-get. I highly recommend you get it into the standard linux package repositories if you want more users.
I'm part of a group working on a 3D printer that will make copies of itself. It's a basically a hotglue gun and a three-axis positioning system. The hotglue gun builds up objects out of 0.5 mm lines of plastic. If you wanted to build up a hemisphere, you'd put down a filled disk, and then raise the glue gun 0.5 mm and print a smaller filled disk, and so on, until you'd made your hemisphere.
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I have a US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity in my pants, if you know what I mean.
And I think you (and the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) know what I mean.
And subtract all the ones which failed testing regimes by killing patients.
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I see what you mean. If I was poor, I'd choose to sleep under a bridge or to starve rather than take handouts. Therefore, I shouldn't have to pay taxes.
The only job for government is to bomb people and throw potheads in jail for a few decades, and in that case I'm hugely in favor of big government. Maybe this includes building freeways, but I'm not sure about maintenance or inspections. Aside from that I can teach my own kids, inspect my own meat, and I can drive myself to the hospital if I fall down the stairs or have a heart attack.
Also, if my house catches fire, it's my job to extinguish it. If some poor bastard's house down the way catches fire, that's his problem.
I've had enough with these fucking commies who want to take all my guns and money away.
Over at http://reprap.org/ we're up to version 2 (Mendel) on our diy matter duplicator-like things, and we've had Mendel make plastic parts for daughter Mendels. Not stepper machines or microcontrollers, dontchayaknow, but 'matter duplicator' is what we're aiming for.
3D printers require a little less expertise to operate than lathes or mills, which what Popular Mechanics readers used to use to make the things in the plans, back in the day.
Most of this discussion ignores the fact that curators and archivists have fiercely discussed and analyzed this very subject. I get 1.5 M (apparent) results when I google 'digital curation' and that's without querying amazon, google schoolar, a university library, etc.
Google 'digital curation'. It's like googling Ron Paul, but about digital curation.
The buyer can use a figurine differently from media, displaying it on a shelf or in a case, perhaps next to the recorded media or a screen playing the same.
For extra points, take the sculpt to an art bronze foundry and have them cast the piece as a bronze. See "From Clay to Bronze: A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture" by Tuck Langland.
You can sculpt the piece by hand out of wax, oilclay, or sculpty if you don't have a 3D printer.
We would launch rockets whose end stages would have to match orbits and velocities with the ISS, and then a small team of astronauts would take hundreds/thousands/tens of thousands of hours to assemble the spacecraft, doing spacewalks and controlling robot arms. And then, once it is assembled, you would have to boost it up out of that orbit. Launching it as one piece from the ground, you can time it and angle it right to catch favorable 'slingshot' trajectories to your planet/asteroid/etc. of interest, and you can have a much larger pool of non-spacesuited specialists assemble it. (This includes 'small' issues like a master welder not having to cross-train as an astronaut.) Assembly in space makes sense once we start mining the asteroid belt and maybe the moon. My question - is it feasible to boost the ISS to a more favorable orbit or one of the Lagrange points?
~$200, but a Vex robot kit http://www.robotshop.ca/vexplorer-vexblue.html A vex robot or lego mindstorms kit is cheap when you factor in how many hours he'll use it and what he'll learn from it. The arduino boards mentioned above are also a good suggestion, but for books I'd start him out on Forrest Mims' electronics books and get a copy of Paul Scherz's "Electronics for Inventors" 2nd Ed. Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics" is a bit advanced for him.
"Why do you need a shift key? To type capital letters, press capslock, type the letter(s) you need, and press caps lock again. And for !@#$%^&*()_+ and so on, you can select them through this menu." While we're discussing missing features, I want an oilpaint brush, a pastel brush, and so on, like Corel Painter X. (Built in, not a filter.)
Start running a fab lab for the campus community - use a grant/your budget to get a laser cutter, vinyl cutter, desktop cnc router, and some soldering irons, and let students use them on their personal projects. This is already going on on other campuses and at community centers.
The best introduction is Neil Gershenfeld's book Fab. Carleton Library doesn't have a copy but email me, (penguin at supermeta dot com), and I'll lend you mine, I'm in Ottawa.
*Aside from common stuff from a hardware store and an electronics store.
(Yes, I'm a RepRap developer, and yes, that's a cut-and-paste.)
Get a sherline, taig, or maybe proxxon mill, and CNC adapt it. You can also use it as a RepRap or Fab@home 3D printer.
Luckily, we can correct for this by using calipers or a ruler.
This is very interesting. Unfortunately, it is going to be closed-source and patented.
Does anyone know any open-source projects to do object reconstruction from video or still photographs? I'm asking because my group is building a 3D printer.
http://www.reprap.org/
(Self-link pimpage, etc. etc.)
and I think it would be cool and useful to be able to capture a 3D model from photos or video of a sculpted maquette, pet cat, broken part, human, or so on.
(I just stumbled across this by googling "gpl object reconstruction", which may be relavant):
https://ezra.dev.java.net/
People may be interested in
http://splinescan.co.uk/
which is a gpl laser scanner hardware (pen laser, prism*, webcam, and turntable) + software project to do 3D object scanning.
I'll follow comment responses to this thread, but I also welcome emails:
penguin at supermeta dot ihatespamtoo dot com
Note: I tried downloading sage, and had trouble at the very end, as I didn't have math fonts loaded. I'll give it another try when I can apt-get install it.
It's a worthy-sounding project and I'm glad you guys are doing it. I hope getting it into debian goes smoothly.
This future is some time after sage gets into the package repositories, I imagine.
I gave sage a try, downloaded the 200MB+ tar ball and tried to run it the program.
No fucking luck; missing some math fonts. Sigh.
I'll give it a try. Downloading the tarball now.
I'd much rather have installed via apt-get. I highly recommend you get it into the standard linux package repositories if you want more users.
That sounds very cool. What did it look like and how did it function?
It's all under the gpl, and you can see what we're up to here:m e
http://reprap.org/
http://reprapdoc.voodoo.co.nz/bin/view/Main/WebHo
http://reprap.blogspot.com/
http://reprappers.blogspot.com/
http://objects.reprap.org/
If you want to make your own 3D printer, or borrow one of our loaner machines (once we have some), please come check us out.