3D scanning and printing

Spread the love

Behold the very cheap 3D scanner

And now the 3D printer:

Have you read the breakthrough novel of the year? When you are done with that, try:

In Search of Sungudogo by Greg Laden, now in Kindle or Paperback
*Please note:
Links to books and other items on this page and elsewhere on Greg Ladens' blog may send you to Amazon, where I am a registered affiliate. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, which helps to fund this site.

Spread the love

0 thoughts on “3D scanning and printing

  1. The scanner is a neat idea, but has a ton of disadvantages (like no undercut, meniscus error, the part gets soppy milk all over it, etc). It is cheap though, so surely someone’s got a use.

    The “DIY SLA” thing just isn’t there yet. DIY CNC maching, sure, in fact I’ve got a 12x12x6 steel frame machine I built that works great. I could stick one of these little squirty heads on it and use it like the machine above, but it would suck. Horribly.

    SLA done right needs a heated box, a support material, and a real precision nozzle. These are all do-able but not cheap or easy to do at home. We need a better idea, really, otherwise we’re going to be stuck with these home-semi-precision-chocolate-shapers that are out there now. The results are ugly.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *