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A comment on 3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices. Parent comment

Re:3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiF... by worldsayshi on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:29AM (#15861773)
> Nobody, or next-to-nobody, would want to have that.

I wouldn't say that. I think that everyone would want it if it didn't add more work, cost or mental overhead than it would remove. And to do that it would have to be ridiculously reliable and simple and be integrated into the products rather than work as an add-on. That won't happen for many years for many of those products.

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Re:3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiF... by new_hackers on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:43PM (#15863089)
reliability was my first thought with these. It is a very clever technique. However, the mechanical spring properties would seem to be very important. I'm sure they have designed the spring to be in an approximately linear stress/strain region, but material creep seems like it would be more prevalent than traditional engineering materials. Perhaps if the lifespan of these objects is relatively short, then they would satisfy the reliability goal.
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