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July 16, 2011
Replicators
I'll be truly impressed when the Z Corporation guys can give me a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot.
Tucson John sent a link to the clip above. The ability to make objects from scanner input - and with moving parts - is way cool. But I took it as just an advancement in stereo lithography technology, which has been around since the 1980s. The Z Corp. guys have added high-precision scanning and (no doubt) some fairly clever image analysis code to process the scanner's input. Using scanned input as the model, instead of the usual CAD model, is a really impressive advance.
Here's XKCD's take:
The 3D printing part, though, is widely used -- for making custom chocolates, as an example.
Some folks even have chocolate printers made from LEGOs.
And some have LEGO-built printers the "print" with LEGOs:
Posted by joke du jour at July 16, 2011 09:01 AM
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