3D printing - Fancy 'printing' a working gun at home?!

[Wozza]

Affordable 3D scanner: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/17/the-makerbot-digitizer-is-nearly-magic/?ncid=fb

Amazing.

 

[AZ Gull]

Now you can nip into Asda, and leave with a mini figurine of ....... yourself - A mini adventure with Asda's new 3D printing service

 

[Coach_Carter_92]

Re putting it together, i'm sure most of the components are already done. Watch this from QI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adm72GaaCJ8

 

[nail-Z]

3D printing is nowhere near the point of being able mass produce anything with a quality finish, the layers tend to cause a grain in the finished object which may not be desirable in the finished article. Great for prototyping though.

A win-win if you want to print yourself a dildo.



What?

 

[Cold Gettin Dumb]

A mate of mine already sells a model railway loco kit, where he has the main structure 3d printed, & gets around the layering unevenness by providing etched brass overlays. http://narrowplanet.co.uk/products/NPL-001
Using the same technology you can print in brass & silver (slightly different in approach to plastic printing).
check out
http://www.shapeways.com/?ca=gp&ct=shapeways-3d-printing&cr=ad-29b&gclid=COHX47OBoLoCFRIPtAodbjoAOw
or
http://i.materialise.com/. These are two companies that offer you a printing service & user uploaded design that you can purchase yourself & they'll print them for you.

 

[Puppet Master]

Ain't gonna do much damage with a paper gun are ya

 

[Biscuit]

We have one at work (A 3D printer, not a working gun) and I must say I'm underwhelmed. The finish isn't great and I just don't know what to print with it!