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This is awesome!!!
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I found this very interesting. More vids on the site!
This guy "prints" a crescent wrench!
Or a 'shifter' [shifting spanner] to us Aussies.
The tech has been around for several years...though now it looks like it's getting 'commercial/accessible'...;)
To me its a knuckle buster. That's what its called in Brooklyn. And yeah...the technology has been around for awhile. I first saw it on the back of an electronics magazine in the early nineties. What I saw on the video is about a third the size and it didn't use a powder, it used a polymer resin. You'd scan the object into a computer and it would send the info to a digital lathe where lasers would etch the design into the resin. Then a tray rose up out of the tub and there ya go...a 3D replica of whatever you scanned. The cost was $700 US.
I actually got to see something very similar at one of my customers plants. You design whatever you want on the PC first then it copies/builds/creates it in the machine below. Forgive the pics, I took them with my Blackberry. The last one shows a nut and bolt design done as you see it, all one working piece AND a 3D image of my thumb taken with a special camera that uses lasers and then input into the software and made by the machine.
Very interesting! I found this a while back, but didn't post it because I thought folks pretty much wouldn't give it a second look:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/26/solar-sinter-solar-powered-3d-printer-turns-sand-into-glass-ren/
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Hey Po' - watch out... that's got your fingerprint on it... 
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