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Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action) by Patrick Hood-Daniel, James Floyd Kelly

Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action) Patrick Hood-Daniel, James Floyd Kelly ebook
Page: 466
Format: pdf
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1430234431, 9781430234449

If your only exposure to it was watching a MakerBot machine print a copy of comedian Stephen Colbert's head in 2011, you might be tempted to relegate additive manufacturing—commonly referred to as 3-D printing—to the realm of commodity. Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer is your gateway into the exciting world of personal fabrication. It's a 3D printer that will not only print out plastic objects – from children's shoes to doorhandles – but will also print out most of itself. RepRap printer “Every technology humanity has ever created has been used to make weapons. Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action) description. At Cal, Dreambox customers can print their own preloaded designs such as dog tags, snowflakes or cups, or choose from thousands of items on the digital design repository, Thingiverse. There is a certain extent to which 3D printers are a poster technic for Neil Postman's questions for technology (more on those questions here) as such printers are a perfect example of devices that may create as many problems as they solve (as the printable gun case evinces). As Bowyer says What's more, as it is licenced as open source, under GPL, with all the instructions available online, anyone with a RepRap can make one for a friend for free and with their own modifications and improvements. That doesn't mean you can "print" an entire aircraft - yet - but recent advances in this technology may soon drastically reduce the time required to build an airplane at home. Granted, many things have happened in the world since the mass shooting that led many politicians to vow action, and one of those things was that people stopped focusing on the issue. Combining 3D printing technology with the convenience and accessibility of the DVD-dispensing Redbox service, student entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley have built a vending machine with a seemingly infinite selection of products.