3D printers are technology
When does /g/ think 3D printers will become more affordable and mainstream? Or will they progress the way of the 3D TV and die out as fast as they came up?
General 3D printer discussion tred
>>45682295
>Or will they progress the way of the 3D TV and die out as fast as they came up?
It's only recently that it's been getting media attention but the reprap project has been around since 2005. As long as there's a dedicated maker community, there will always be 3D printers.
>>45682295
3d printers have more use than 3d tvs.
are you comparing them just because they're 3d? fucking idiot
I think it would be bigger if their wiki wasn't so shit
>>45682295
printing a cup is the dumbest thing you could print.
>>45682295
>acrylic frame
>>45682499
this
you're probably paying more in filament then you would be just buying a generic mug.
Ugh as if plastic chink shit wasn't bad enough
>>45682295
>using mugs made from plastic
enjoy your chemical colorants
>>45682443
jesus you're a fuck
i compared them because they are both "fads"
>>45682541
>easily creating things for prototyping is a fad like watching tv in 3d
you're a fucking idiot.
>>45682436
is it worth it for the price they are now to invest in one? will the price be coming down in the next few years?
i recently got into printing with a prusa i3v, shits cash. it's a hobby in and of itself; I've spent pretty much all of my free time after work working on it. 3d printers are a lot of work and can be very frustrating but are super fun and rewarding.
>>45682597
what do you print?
>>45682615
dragon dildos
>>45682652
i figured if i got a printer the first thing i'd print would be a dildo
>>45682556
If you make one yourself, you can be sure that it'll keep its value as long as you use quality parts.
Shit companies have been shafting the maker community and started patenting the technologies left and right. It'll be years before those patents run out so it's probably a safe move to buy a consumer model if you don't like tinkering.
what modelling software do you use? I've use Creo Parametric with school but I'm wondering what else is out there
>>45682541
Aren't 3d printers being developed to produce parts in space? I wouldn't call that a fad.
>>45682615
lots of calibration objects
trinkets, random doodads
printer upgrades
I make my own designs too but I spend so much time working on the printer I don't always have time to complete them
>>45682711
I'm not saying they aren't widely used and very useful. It's known that NASA uses 3D printers and airplane manufacturers use them for parts too. I'm saying the general consumer stage 3D printing is more of a fad because they never really took off.
>>45682615
some random stuff
>custom mouse hand rest
>raspi case
>figmas
and tons of shit that needs fixing
>6 pairs of sunglasses
>screen door
>vacuum pedal
>car light switch
>>45682711
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9PWUGkz7o
>>45682597
thanks, bookmarked
anyone else get really irritated by the sort of meme culture that surrounds 3D printing?
granted they do have their uses, but these idiots think that it's the answer for everything.
>>45682940
That's the view from the outside. Or at least what you see. The 3d printing community is fucking great and extremely helpful. The guy who sold me my kit from Makerfarm will answer your questions on google chat extremely quickly. There's a ton of open source parts and designs, as well as tons of community guides. Anyone who thinks it's a solution for everything clearly hasn't printed a thing in their life. It's not easy to get good prints.
>>45683021
how do i get into 3d printing
>>45683021
until someone 3-d prints an actual appliance, and not plastic toys, 3-d printers will stay as background noise.
basically, once you can 3d print metals, its all ogre.
>mfw the day someone is able to 3d print a big ticket appliance and manufacturers lose their goddamned minds.
>>45683215
>appliances don't need electronics
>>45683215
It's called sintering and it's already possible, just expensive.
>>45683215
So pretty much 3D printing 3D printers.
You actually think they'll let that happen?
You're just THAT delirious?
>>45683215
>3d print metals
it exists already, there's a couple methods, one called direct metal laser sintering, another is selective laser melting. last time a checked, a machine that does it will cost you around half a million.
>>45682295
>will they progress the way of the 3D TV and die out as fast as they came up?
no way. 3d printers actually provide a service that isn't able to be done by anyother device. a 3d tv, is just--fucking stupid.
>>45683295
so in 15 years the machine will cost a few thousand, the process will have been refined, allowing someone to print an oven.
>muh eletronics
insert a raspberry pi (or whatever the equivilent is 15 years from now) for temp controls.
>>45683341
yeah im going to buy 300 dollars worth of metal filament then rig up an electronic control system for another hundred bucks. when i could just buy a stove for 250?
>>45683341
>who needs magnetrons or compressors
you know shit about appliances
>>45683215
http://colorfabb.com/bronzefill
http://www.proto-pasta.com/shop/stainless-steel-pla-preorder
These can be printed with traditional printers. Prints can print "actual appliances" too.
>>45683422
>PLA/PHA + fine bronze powder
Still plastic
>>45683215
It will eventually get to the point where you can print things on an atomic scale. As with many things technology-evolution wise, if we don't change the way our society currently works then the government will have a hemorrhage over that.
>>45683405
>not printing a pink plastic E-Z bake oven
>>45682671
What else is there
>>45683547
government slash big business, I should add
>>45683405
yeah no that's retarded, 3d printing is more suited to small, complex objects. and the level of complexity possible will increase every year
>>45683469
>80% bronze
I am sort of curious about building my own 3d printer. Is the reprap the most affordable one? Are there any other plans available?
>>45683630
http://www.3dhubs.com/best-3d-printer-guide
RepRaps are very good but there are other options. I always hear good things about the Printrbot simple metal.
3D printing is cool and all, but the applications are pretty limited. What am I going to do with the ability to make small plastic objects? I mean if I was into controller mods or making cases for small electronics, sure. But I don't do either of those things.
Can a 3D printer print your waifu?
>implying small object makers will allow such a thing to occur
>>45683741
just because you're a fucking nerd and think those are the only uses for 3d printing, doesn't mean it's true.
http://www.thingiverse.com/
>>45683776
a plastic figure of her
![5df2221e9987b42cafe774e177bf0703[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yy2wUHK.jpg "5df2221e9987b42cafe774e177bf0703[1].jpg")
>>45683776
>>45683802
okay, add decorations and maymays to the list of things you can do with a 3D printer
>>45683829
what do you expect to be able to 3d print?
>>45682295
>the way of the 3D TV
3D TVs are great and still going strong.
I think 3D printing will be for everyone very soon.
>>45683405
>thinks current technological limitations will persist as-is for the next 50 years.
>be 1980
>yeah im going to buy 1000 dollars worth of paper and ink, then spend an entire day configuring a $15,000 printer, when i can just use a chemical bath to produce a photo for a few bucks.
>>45683829
literally no imagination. sorry m8, cant print you one of those
>tfw printed a linked chain keychain on my school's printer
>some nigger ended up swiping up
There's some pretty cool shit I wouldn't have thought but none of it really essential; mostly just shit that would clutter my room after I printed it because I have no real need for it. Tools and such are definitely useful though.
>>45682295
Lel the engineering club at my school built one of these fucking things.
I couldn't go to the meetings because they were held during the time I had physics class. Shit sucks.
>>45683292
not him but what are they going to do to stop it?
outlaw printing out printers?
good luck, everyone has been using TPB this whole time to illegally download files, I don't see why they couldn't do the same for printer blueprints.
>>45682295
That can't be food safe.
>>45684367
>built an Airwolf
Those things cost like $2000 man.
My school has a dual head extruder Airwolf.
I don't know what they're getting all these 3D printers for but in any case we can print a lot of shit really fast.
>>45683215
You can't really print an appliance, namely because you can't print circuitboards in a sane manner.
There are a lot of ways to print on a circuitboard, but if there was a way to make a PCB that wasn't extremely fucking toxic, people would be doing it by now.
unless you're prototyping, you don't need one for home use
the amount of things you're going to print is going to be small, so just go to one of the 3d print shops that will crop up
that is, if those shops can stay is business from the near zero usage
it probably needs to be auxiliary to another similar business, like someone that does aluminum anodizing
>>45682541
So you are asking if it's a fad and then stating it's a fad. Plus you specifically used the example of 3D TVs, one would think you're an idiot cause it sounds like you are trying to draw a correlation between the two cause 3D.
3D TVs were a fad because they required you to wear glasses to view them and to do so within a certain distance. I work for a manufacturer of video products and always told this to clients when they asked if we would support 3D. The day those two things weren't required would be the day we supported it. Until then, we saw the forest for the trees, and knew it was a fad. You kind of have to have a decent idea of where tech is going in your industry since you're going to spend a lot of R&D on it.
And no, for what it's worth 3D printing isn't a fad, and it won't go away. Nor will it ever be mainstream. People want their coffee makers to be even simpler, they won't go out of their way to make trinkets for themselves when they could order one someone else made.
They will get more affordable, and hopefully more powerful. I look forward to the day when I could drop a couple thousand and be able to buy a 3D printer that is basically a CNC to let me make small parts out of metals.
>>45682499
Also this.
>>45683623
still plastic
metal doesn't melt at 200 degrees
>>45683246
Here's the thing:
Once in-home printing of custom 2 layer PCBs is possible (without resorting to messy acid baths, and tons of copper waste), we'll have the ability to make INSANE things at home.
>>45684860
Then you'd need to do the smd soldering
>>45684844
Solder sure does.
>>45684893
You don't own an oven?
Hell, you don't own TWO ovens?
>>45684916
you got me
but bronze and stainless steel don't melt at 200 degrees
that filament is still plastic
>>45682295
Make a way to scan your dick.
Make money selling your dildo dick.
BOOM, I just saved the 3D printing market #drunk #eggnog #gentoo #hashtag
>>45684938
But you can already make an oven without 3d printing. It's literally a metal box with heat from gas or electricity.
Microwaves need a magnetron.
ACs and refrigerators need compressors.
The ability to print PCBs easily would be fantastic, but for electronics/robotics; not necessarily for appliances.
>>45682499
>not printing your own goddamn cup
check out this faggot.
>>45684972
go to bed tank
>>45682295
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2014/apr/29/3d-printer-builds-houses-china-video
I would love to have one of these
>>45682295
Someone Photoshop a dildo onto that printer. Make it the same gay purple color the cup is.
>>45683547
> the government will have a hemorrhage over that.
What?
>>45685002
He's right you know.
>drinking hot liquids out of a plastic designed to have a low melting point to work in a 3D printer
>>45685050
>not living life on the bleeding edge of technology, no matter the cost
worth it
>>45685002
hot ends and colorants in PLA/ABS filament aren't generally foodsafe
>>45685079
>>45682499
maybe you would prefer to print a dragon dildo
>>45684972
>get famous men to scan their dick
>print out dildos
>sell to feminists
>???
>6 trillion shekels in profit
Dating is ever decreasing, as the marxist disease sweeps the nation. Feminism is increasing as a defense mechanism, because they don't want to admit to not being able to find a husband and would rather rationalize that they "dont need no man". This creates a feed-back loop, as the number of feminists increase, the value of women decreases, and thus the amount of men getting married decreases, resulting in the increased consumption of dildos and romance novels.
The collapse of civilization is the perfect time to start a dildo company.
Fuck. Why is it so hard to get such simple information on the reprap wiki? Just about every fucking link is broken.
>>45685029
Sorry for the wait
>>45685920
simply eric
>>45685920
well done.
>>45682295
Mfw I own one that scans shit too.
>>45685920
how did you do the reflection?
>>45686030
I can only guess he did it with diligent attention to detail that I didn't believe /g/ had before today.
>>45685920
YOU ARE A GOD
>>45686030
A lot of guesswork and expanding this part where the reflection wouldn't be.
>>45682652
Are they for actual use or display? Most 3d printed stuff is ridged a bit.
>>45686145
Nothing a quick sand/blast can't fix.
>>45685183
I can't buy Dragon Dildos in Walmart for less than 50 cents (unless that place got a lot better than my last visit)
>>45685920
Kudos
>>45685959
>eric
>>45683776
>Print Waifu mold
>fill with your choice of silicone. Don't forget some kind of skeleton structure inside so It can move
>let it settle for a day until it's ready to be removed from 3d printed mold
>enjoy waifu
>>45682295
3d printers are too advanced for most people. I doubt they will ever be mainstream because of this reason
3D printers are still incredibly prevalent, I don't imagine them dying out soon, I use them all the time for practical robotics used and the revolutionary idea of printing metals will be important once it becomes fool proof
IMO they are already affordable. You can get a very decent printer for like $500, less than a decent computer.
You just need some technical skills to operate them.
>>45682295
>When does /g/ think 3D printers will become more affordable and mainstream?
>more affordable
If you are not a total oxygen thief you can easily build one under 400. The reason 3d-printers are not so mainstream yet is because they need some skill to maintain and operate. Also modelling the parts can be a huge boulder for some people and the the print quality isn't that great always. I see that in the near future we will have 3d-printing shops popping up in the malls providing spare parts service for customers. In 20 years we will see sintering shops making spare parts and other products.
I think the reason 3D printers aren't everywhere yet is twofold:
1) It requires skill to maintain and use, and
2) You can only make shit out of plastic in the commercially viable ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RB_Oxoxs08
>>45685002
Have you ever seen anything made on a consumer grade 3D printer?
Your coffee going to pour straight through and burn your shit.
>>45685920
decent job. saved
>>45682555
Can you explain why cheaper 3d printer variants have been coming out only recently?
>>45682295
I want one to print all the adult toys that I want but I'm too ashamed to buy them in public.
>>45692086
too ashmed to buy what in public, the 3d printer? why "them"? if youd buy the adult toys you wouldnt need a 3d printer no more
>>45692086
Buy a disposable debit card from a gas station and buy one online.
>>45682295
Once the average idiot figures out how to 3d model shit.
aka never
Can someone 3D print me a 3D printer?
I hope that people will one day change the name, when the technology is advanced enough to call it something like 'an integrator' or similar. '3D printer' is a shitty name if it becomes an everyday appliance.
>>45692776
or 3D-ing a factory for producing 3D printers?
I own one and i use it very often for robotics projects and such, but i doubt the average house hold would need it in the future.
bought a da vinci 1.0 for $400, so far i like it
been printing out little figures, small movie props.
printed a Noisy Cricket gun from Men in Black ,looks pretty darn good
overall its still a fairly technical process, calibration is a pain, understanding the properties of the material your printing in and if you don't know how to use cad your stuck printing other peoples designs for the most part
>>45692746
personal computers will become popular once the average idiot figures out how to write software
aka never
or wait, maybe they can use software written by others / 3d models designed by others
>>45685920
