3D Printing – Make Your Own CARS
Remember back in early 2010 before you could fit a 3D printer on your desktop – those wacky, early days – the world before iPads and desktop 3D printers, how did people even live?
From HP-Dimensions, for under $20k, upload your CAD image and ta-da, this UPRINT machine will crank out a 3D plastic model …
“The Designjet 3D is based on Stratasys’s Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology, which turns three-dimensional CAD drawings into tangible prototypes by extruding partially molten ABS plastic in extremely fine layers one atop the other, forming the entire 3-D model in a single piece from the ground up. Designjet Color 3D will print single-color parts in up to eight different colors.”
Nice! So, if you can’t find Shifty Drug Hauler, just make your own! 🙂
So, who’s buying one, I wanna see some Radiator Springs roads and playsets!
But if you prefer your CARS in metal, this place, Shapeways will make you anything in stainless steel, aluminum or other metals – send them your 3D file and tada … so it’s a DIY-custom world now … finally those 7 missing racers!
Come on customizers, time to do your own stamping! 🙂
(For a real DIYers, there’s a $1,o00 kit version that’s not very elegant looking but hey, you save $19k … from the looks of it, it may also transport you back in time or set fire to your eyebrows but that’s science).
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22 April 2010
9 Comments
Only one color at a time? Pass.
I won’t be impressed by technology until I can download a pizza from the Domino’s website!
considering the potential money that we’re paying to mattel (esp the unnecessary spending on duplicates/triplicates), maybe its a good time to consider getting this machine, or the cheaper ‘desktop version’ that costs only 1k
So did Disney/Pixar/China buy one of these, and is this how the new cars will be made: 100% Plastic looking Die-Cast
Sweet.
Just like the SOTS set, one in a million chance I’ll ever be able to afford one. LOL.
Can this one print lenticular eyes ?
No. It’ll break the machine.
Wow…just what the average Cars-a-holic needs for their home PC…
I want a 3-D fax machine!
What’s a fax machine