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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
ISBN: 1430234431, 9781430234449
Format: pdf
Page: 466
Publisher: Apress

A process called “additive manufacturing,” or its more These machines work much like the two-dimensional printer you may have on your desk, but instead of printing a layer of ink, a 3D printer extrudes many layers of melted plastic to form a physical object. The “old ways” are making a comeback, and in a big way. With 3-D printers, users download blueprints from the Internet, feed them into the machine, wait several hours and voila, they've got a gun. Weekly: Recap top stories, occasional action alerts. Printing in Plastic : Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action . You'd honestly be better off using that plastic to make shivs. To print a useable gun on a 3D printer. Daily: Get each day's anybody any good. The technology is still in its infancy – as one of the videos below shows, the guns don't always work long – but they're getting there. Instead of ink, it uses materials such as liquid plastic or powder as we saw in the above video. For anyone who has ever had to assemble IKEA furniture, that might not be very reassuring but if you're not sure you could hack it, here is a picture a little kid making his own toy shop using a 3D printer: We may need a few more years before we can 3D print a house but make no mistake, this is a technological revolution poised to alter the way businesses do business. This is a reality that some are working toward right now using new technologies that could eventually bring us much closer to making the replicator a reality. Download Designing with Plastics Design a part using a modeling tool such as Google SketchUp. Designing with Plastics book download.