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Are Affordable 3D Printers Really Coming Soon? Looks Like It!

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Are Affordable 3D Printers Really Coming Soon? Looks Like It!

from JoeUser Forums

I’ve been watching the news about 3D printers for a while, and one of the reasons is the very cool ability in Galactic Civilizations III that allows you to print your ship designs with a 3D printer.  Most people think 3D printers aren’t affordable at least for the general consumer, and in most cases they are exactly right.  However, within the next year we should be seeing several consumer-level 3D printers available for just a few hundred dollars or less.

Image via @draginol:

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I borrowed that image from Brad’s Twitter feed of a GalCiv 3 ship design printed in a 3D printer.  That’s just a basic print, but the premise of something like this is exciting.

As mentioned above, there’s some affordable 3D printers headed our way soon. 

Here’s a couple I’ve been reading about.

With more people using crowdfunding to get their 3D printers to market, and other companies investing in them as well, I think we’ll see a big market for these in the near future.

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 24

I still have mine.... mostly a Number 10 [collected] with a couple of other sets.
End of Jafo's quote

Lucky sod!  Of all the toys I had as a kid, my Meccano sets are the only ones I'd love to still have... that and the joke dog turd [complete with artificial fly for authenticity] I used to trick the old girl next door.

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's the 'chest' ....as I said...works a treat....and less than a 1/4th the price of a 'replica' 10 chest made by some guys in India....another option I was considering...;)

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My grandfather has a similar looking chest that originally belonged to a jeweler.  He used it to store tools and nick knacks in his shed.  As a kid I was always fascinated by it because of its decorative veneers and antique locks and handles.... not to mention all the stuff he used to keep in it.  At 6 or 7, maybe 8, I didn't understand what a lot of it was for, but it was sure fun pulling it all out and inventing uses.

Funnily enough, when speaking about chests, the guy my mother married after dad died had been a long-term family friend, and he gave me an old seamans chest that converted into a sloping desktop when opened and had secret compartments, etc.  It'd be worth quite a bit of money these days, largely because of its decorative exterior, all done in a parquetry design using different timber veneers.  Again, it was something I had to leave behind due to the luggage limit we had to come under.

As for your chest, I could use something along those lines now. It would go nicely in my man cave for various PC bits n' pieces and look quite the furniture piece.  Nice!!!

:)

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 28

largely because of its decorative exterior, all done in a parquetry design using different timber veneers.
End of starkers's quote

Parquetry is what's on floors....decorative inlays are called marquetry...;)

I'm an architeque...I know lots of these weird words....;)

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

There are a lot of random unbacked statistics being posted here about the frequency of proper vs improper gun usage.   I see a good number o them are inaccurate as well.

Regardless, there is a broader issue at stake here.  There was a man a while back who espoused that civilians were not to be trusted with firearms. People of that age backed that mentality in mass.  Then the Holocaust happened.   Those who are not students of history are doomed to repeat it.

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Let's not get into a gun debate here.

Thankyou....;)