The T-1000 is Coming. Revolutionary 3D Printing Grows Objects From a Pool of Liquid

Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 10 months ago to Technology
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This is really cool. The advance is nearly staggering for it's impact on 3D printing moving to and dramatically increasing abilities in manufacturing, medicine, and design. Believe it or not, the idea came from the Terminator Movies. Here's proof that there are still some amazing men of the mind out there.

From the article:
"If you think conventional 3D printing is cool, wait until you see Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP) in action. It takes the creation of objects to a fantastic new level, rising from a pool of liquid media like the cyborg cop in Terminator 2."
And:
"The new technology can make ready-to-use products 25 to 100 times faster than conventional 3D printing, and vastly expands the materials that can be used and the geometries that can be achieved. It will open doors to innovations in health care and medicine, as well as the automotive and aviation industries."

They think that soon, they can have the speed up to 1,000 times faster.

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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, plus an automated milling machine to finish an 80% AR receiver.

    But DD actually planned for this type of reaction from the government. Cody Wilson is a brilliant anarchist (?). I'm still trying to figure out that part.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry-Defense Distributed, (not united) Next up, print me a brain.

    It's an exciting suit. Seems clear on it's face, but you never know what the government will pull. But using an anti weapons technology act to stop free speech and internet information sharing of intentional open source material is overboard.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 9 months ago
    Saw this in action...it's wild!
    Soon they be trying to print food...hope they realize that food is alive, has living organisms in it that are necessary to provide benefit to the body. If they can do it there will be no need for GMO anything.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This has already been done, and in a lot more depth than a post -- Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe, but to enforce it, with the type of 3D printing we're discussing and available to any and all, may involve the complete loss of privacy. That's the problem with the 'War On's we've had put on us. We never seem to consider the full impacts or what we're allowing to be taken from us in our desires to protect and punish.
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  • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Except "War On Piracy" doesn't have the same mass hysteria power as "War On Drugs", "War On Terror" etc.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The DEA should find itself helpless. In following the Defense Distributed developments and controversies, I've learned more about the subject and it's potentials for IP and invention patent disruption, though I'm not sure that's the partners in DD's primary intent. I do think the technology is requiring a major rethink of property rights protection in all forms, and with all the hoopla happening around the subject maybe its time that we rethink how we manage the issue. But I think realistically, that it's going to have to boil down to education in the philosophical and moral impacts of property rights.

    Its either that or another 'War On----' by the government against its citizens, even more draconian than the 'War on Drugs'. Aha, another great idea for a post. You're welcome to do the post if you come up with before I do.
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  • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Expect a similar scenario of copyright-owning producers versus peer-to-peer sharers, as what we've seen since 2000 with Napster, KaZaa, BitTorrent and so on.
    Where this technology will be a threat to copyright owners is its capability of 3D-printing items that are actually robust and useful, as well as economic, instead of the extruded plastic crap we have now.

    But it's when 3D printers become capable of printing down to molecular level that the fur will really start to fly! The DEA, amongst others, will suddenly find themselves completely helpless.
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  • Posted by Jim_Cook 8 years, 9 months ago
    This is not new. We used a printer like this about 10 years ago. It had a tank that held the liquid that was about 1'X1'X1'. It is fantastic for prototype work. I've had a normal 3D printer in my basement shop for about four years now.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 8 years, 9 months ago
    This is like the radios of 1900, insofar as its potential development relates to its current model. It does not require much effort in imagination to project a microwave-sized box with inputs of various organic and inorganic sources (which you would buy separately or in packs like you do refills for your inkjet printer) the output of which would resemble the Star Trek 'replicator'.

    "Tea. Earl Grey, hot."

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 9 months ago
    I've been thinking about building a 3D printer. I like the Deltabot versions.

    I don't understand why these guys are saying they are 3-D, while everyone else is 2-D x N. Do they really solidify spherical pixels? How do the light sources project? This seems like a manipulation of wording that is not well-supported in physics. It seems like a robotics feature, not fundamental to the printing technology.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 9 months ago
    I hope more of these get into pro-freedom hands before the government starts limiting their abilities (to prevent the making of guns, for instance).
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