[KwartzLab] Fwd: 3D printed robot invasion

[Jeff Schmidt]

Ooooh, I'm seriously considering one of these as a christmas gift!!




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>Once our 3D printer achieves acceptable print quality, we should think
>of ways to use it to engage the general public, and hopefully bring
>people into the lab.  Something like this, maybe.
>
>From: Eric Boyd <mrericboyd at yahoo.com>
>Date: 30 November 2011 13:34
>To: Hacklab Discuss List <discussion at hacklab.to>
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>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/startup-launches-a-robot-invasion-with-3d-printing-and-webgl.ars
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>Cool service, they have a web interface to design your "robot"
>(actually it'll never move, so it's more like a robot figurine), and
>then you pay and they 3D print it and ship it to you.  The article
>says it's a "ceramic-like" material, so I'm guessing the printer is
>one of the multi-color commercial ceramic 3D printers.
>
>Somebody should do this in the Open Source world!  It'd be especially
>cool if we could make the robots articulate, which should totally be
>possible with plastic...
>
>Eric
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