Open Source 3-D Printing
Posted on March 12, 2007 Comments (4)
3-D Fabrication Goes Open Source
Hod Lipson and Evan Malone of Cornell University have cooked-up a cheap DIY 3-D printer – the Fab@Home – that they believe could lead to the widespread use of fabrication machines by hobbyists and experimenters. Fabrication machines, or fabbers, operate on the same principle as inkjet printers, but instead of squirting out ink onto paper, they squirt plastic or other materials into three-dimensional shapes. Commercial systems average around $100,000, but you can build Cornell’s Fab@Home for about US$2,300 worth of off-the-shelf parts.
Related: fab@home – Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab – A Plane You Can Print
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April 15th, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
[...] three projectors, show screens on a curved Plexiglas panel, resulting in a 3072 x768 resolution display. [...]
September 16th, 2009 @ 2:09 pm
video of Jay Leno explaining how he was able to use the 3D printer to recreate an old steam engine car part…
May 11th, 2010 @ 7:03 pm
Ever since I first heard of 3-D printing I have though it was very cool. Well first I thought it was science fiction, not real, but a cool idea. Then when I found out it was real I thought it was very cool…
February 17th, 2011 @ 12:11 am
Very fun presentation by 10 year old on 3D printing and the open source Makerbot at Ignite Phoenix.