Re:3D printing meets robot design
by onemoreact on Thursday December 01, 2011 @01:57PM
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People have been printing text and photo's at home for a long time and it's still not cost competitive with mass production. IMO, the real test of 3d printing is when it's cheap enough that shipping something costs about as much as printing it at home.
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Re:3D printing meets robot design
by sylviebarak on Thursday December 01, 2011 @02:46PM
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Totally agree! Can you imagine being able to get your overseas family to print out all their own Christmas gifts? How awesome would that be instead of getting saddled with a $250 posting fee all the time. But price of printing does need to come down