3D Printing as Star Treks First Replicator

[Dryson]

The rudimentary Replicator has finally been developed

http://www.businessweek.com/article...hats-fit-to-3d-print-from-chocolates-to-pizza

I like the candies and how they can be made into geometric shape.

The 3D Printer can build almost anything even a car in six days.

http://www.element14.com/community/...r-created-in-6-days-and-driven-around-Chicago

To the first rocket engine.

http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/students-build-first-rocket-engine-created-with-3d-printing

The next phase of development for the 3D Printer is to quantize ( 2. To apply quantum mechanics or the quantum theory to.) the process so that nano tubes and smaller construction materials can be developed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube

 

[Taylirious]

Pizza! Pizza!

I was interested in 3D Printed homes. http://www.businessinsider.com/3d-printed-houses-are-here-2014-9

 

[BillJ]

The rudimentary Replicator has finally been developed

http://www.businessweek.com/article...hats-fit-to-3d-print-from-chocolates-to-pizza

I like the candies and how they can be made into geometric shape.

The 3D Printer can build almost anything even a car in six days.

http://www.element14.com/community/...r-created-in-6-days-and-driven-around-Chicago

To the first rocket engine.

http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/students-build-first-rocket-engine-created-with-3d-printing

The next phase of development for the 3D Printer is to quantize ( 2. To apply quantum mechanics or the quantum theory to.) the process so that nano tubes and smaller construction materials can be developed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube

Seems you're a little late to the party...

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Hey, best thread he's ever made.

Next stop is the 3D printer that can print itself!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Did Dryson just make up that part at the end about quantum 3D printing? I think he did.

3D printing is cool but it has a long way to go before it's anything like replication. I have a couple 3D-printed objects, and I can tell you the quality leaves much to be desired.

I do hear they can 3D print food now. It sounds more impressive than it is.

 

[Metryq]

I have a couple 3D-printed objects, and I can tell you the quality leaves much to be desired.

The quality varies. One of the first 3D printed objects I ever met—mid to late '90s—was an orthopedic model, and I remember the femur having a "stepped" texture. It was like a 3D object cranked out by a dot matrix printer. The flat "backside" of the model was as smooth and clear as glass. A friend who worked at an engineering school explained that type of printing was a tank of laser-cured resin, and the flat side must have been the surface of the tank—the last "line" in the model.

That same friend also introduced me to some early products of "rapid prototyping," which is anything made by a computer-controlled machine. This includes machines with laser or plasma cutters, or more prosaically millers and lathes. Nowadays such prototyping is used for anything from handheld items to full-scale aircraft. What I find noteworthy is that such machines (millers, lathes, 3D printers) can be bought by hobbyists. Although the hobbyist might be better served by any of the "service bureaus" that will crank out the 3D file you provide.

My brother bought a quadcopter, and grumbled every time he had to put on or take off the rotor guards, since his carrying case was not quite big enough to contain them. Eight tiny screws. Then he found a 3D printer on-line where someone else with the same 'copter had designed and built snap-on plastic clamps for the rotor guards. The end-user can now improve things the original manufacturer left out of their design—all without leaving their desk. (And the quality is superb—not even a seam, as one would find with injection molding.)

Living in the future is pretty cool, but one can easily take it for granted. "When I was a kid, 3D printing was called working for living!"

 

[Dryson]

Quantum Dots - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/07/01/quantum-dots-hinder-3d-printed-counterfeits/

Eventually the 3D Printer will be able to print at the Quantum level just like the computing power in a PC has gone from Colossus to the size of the modern day laptop and even smaller.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

 

[Trekker4747]

"Eventually" meaning centuries from now.

 

[Dryson]

"Eventually" meaning centuries from now.

If technology continues to advance based on Moore's Law then Quantum 3D Printing could be developed even sooner than a few centuries.

 

[Dryson]

"Eventually" meaning centuries from now.

If technology continues to advance based on Moore's Law then Quantum 3D Printing could be developed even sooner than a few centuries.

http://www.theatlantic.com/live/articles/2014/10/3d-printing/380573/

http://www.gizmag.com/arduino-3d-printer-open-source-hardware/34086/

http://www.shapeways.com/

 

[sojourner]

You know you can edit your original post instead of quoting yourself?

 

[Kemaiku]

I don't think I want to be lectured on technological progression by someone who cannot properly edit their posts or find the buttons directly under said post to do so.

 

[Silvercrest]

Just think of it as Dryson still having plenty of room for technological progression.

Plenty.

 

[Dryson]

tilt

 

[Dryson]

I have a couple 3D-printed objects, and I can tell you the quality leaves much to be desired.

The quality varies. One of the first 3D printed objects I ever met—mid to late '90s—was an orthopedic model, and I remember the femur having a "stepped" texture. It was like a 3D object cranked out by a dot matrix printer. The flat "backside" of the model was as smooth and clear as glass. A friend who worked at an engineering school explained that type of printing was a tank of laser-cured resin, and the flat side must have been the surface of the tank—the last "line" in the model.

That same friend also introduced me to some early products of "rapid prototyping," which is anything made by a computer-controlled machine. This includes machines with laser or plasma cutters, or more prosaically millers and lathes. Nowadays such prototyping is used for anything from handheld items to full-scale aircraft. What I find noteworthy is that such machines (millers, lathes, 3D printers) can be bought by hobbyists. Although the hobbyist might be better served by any of the "service bureaus" that will crank out the 3D file you provide.

My brother bought a quadcopter, and grumbled every time he had to put on or take off the rotor guards, since his carrying case was not quite big enough to contain them. Eight tiny screws. Then he found a 3D printer on-line where someone else with the same 'copter had designed and built snap-on plastic clamps for the rotor guards. The end-user can now improve things the original manufacturer left out of their design—all without leaving their desk. (And the quality is superb—not even a seam, as one would find with injection molding.)

Living in the future is pretty cool, but one can easily take it for granted. "When I was a kid, 3D printing was called working for living!"

Really cool Metryq, Do you think that 3D Printing will one day be able to build quantum based models of energy?

 

[Kemaiku]

Already trying to get the thread locked because your just mean spirited people with nothing better to do than to harass and troll websites.

None of you have yet to disclose where you received your formal education from so that your professional background on determining such...inadequacies that you like to find to make yourself feel better can be proven to actually make you more intelligent than everyone else.

If you can't disclose where you received your formal education from so that your expertise is able to be verified then you will be considered to be liars.

The answer I don't have to prove it to you is longer expected. Because to be honest you sound like Lancer Omega, Grand Lunar and 4 of 20 from the Star Trek.com website where it is obvious you were banned from some reason.

And you have yet to produce anything particularly solid in terms of science or technology in any of your threads, instead either link spamming or producing long strings of incoherent ramblings.

Produce something feasible we can discuss, just once, and we will. Until then your flimsy technobabble receives the responce it deserves.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Since yet another thread has become the Dryson hate show, it's getting locked.

Dryson, for your own good, I suggest you not start any new threads for a while.

Everyone else, the next time I see a personal jab at Dryson (or anyone), I'm handing out infractions. I am getting pretty tired of this crap.