What if 3D printing was 100x faster? | Joseph DeSimone

What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique - inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 - that's 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts. Could it finally help to fulfill the tremendous promise of 3D printing?
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[@ethank5681]

What if my inkyjet printer could connect to my computer and actually work

[@Steph.98114]

I find my 3d printer is more reliable then my inkjet

[@maxxiang8746]

@@Steph.98114 ikr

[@brettking8663]

What if the ink refills for the printer didn't cost more per ounce than human blood. Yeah that's a fact

[@kubaxd25]

@@brettking8663 just but a printer with a ciss system, or modify your's.

[@nagualdesign]

I just bought a printer. To replace all six ink cartridges costs £250~300, depending where you shop.

[@Dysputant]

"You wouldn't download a car" ... We are getting there lads...

[@TheMohawkNinja]

I never understood those ads... who wouldn't download a car? Also, someone has made a car from 3D printed parts.

[@Kayriel]

TheMohawkNinja It was some blowhard whinging about pirating MP3s or something. "You wouldn't download a car!" Well, I never could before. I might now.

[@gtaking1014]

"You wouldn't snort milk"

[@Kasarii]

***** Stem cells + 3D printing = We're getting there!

[@iWindBlade]

sadly

[@teharbitur7377]

He didn't just talk but also delivered actual results... directly on stage. Now that's how you do a TED talk :D

[@cicerocarmelo144]

Rage bot

[@jpotter2086]

Ever been to a magic show?

[@MaxMisterC]

4 years later, .....progress????

[@user-ip4ks5kf2j]

​@@MaxMisterC 4 years later again. did you finally google it yourself?

[@kayrosis5523]

ok, it's been 3 years since this talk. why aren't these all over?

[@DrLuc-lq8ls]

There are a few machines that work exactly like this for just a few hundred dollar. Google "Anycubic photon".

[@rapark]

not all over consumer wise bc its like $40k a yr subscription based

[@mervinlobo4673]

Cost of production is way to high

[@TheSentientCloud]

You can buy these now, but really good sls printers are fairly expensive. I dream that in a few years, someone will come up with the Ender 3 of SLS, cheap but high quality.

[@christiansandrini96]

International Space Station they are not sls printers thats a dlp one. Sls uses a powdered material (usually nylon) while DLP and SLA printers use resin that it's cured by uv light or a laser. Dlp printers uses a dsplay projector and the definition of the part is going to be the one of the pixels of the display. Dlp prints in voxels while sla and sls print with a laser so there is more definition in the part but they use different mediums

[@gonzotown9438]

2D printing is really just 1D printing over and over again.

[@adamh2077]

LMAO true

[@whovinny-brovian4223]

So... 3D printing is 1D printing over and over again?.. like.. infinite lines, with no depth, nor width, just to make.. a ball?

[@stephenmorgan6116]

And 1D printing is 0D printing over and over again. XD

[@hirokatsuvictor8755]

Technically yes, because you are printing lines over and over again, row after row on a piece of paper to form 2d shapes. Correction: Actually, not technically. It _is_ 1d printing over and over again

[@Radoslaw1986xx]

No. 2D printing is 2D printing. It prints 2D layers. If it would be 1D printing, then it would only print lines from left to right, like traditional old printers used to do. 3D printers move their head in two directions on each layer, so it's 2D printing over and over again.

[@RBRT02]

Actually 2D printing is just thin 3D printing.

[@chicxulub2947]

but this one is continuous

[@GoldenDoom]

thank you youtube for recomending me this... 5 YEARS AFTER ITS RELESED

[@moritzwachsmuth193]

Relatable

[@rubinil]

Are we there yet?

[@AndrewThompsonIsAwesome]

Same

[@ziadgad6747]

Same.....

[@thumbwarriordx]

To be fair you can actually buy the resin printers now.

[@GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

This idea is game changing.

[@CoiledDracca]

Used that a few times didn't he...

[@ataraxic89]

CoiledDrake Yes, but it REALLY is. You have no idea.

[@robinw77]

GuyWithAnAmazingHat If only it were record-changing as well.

[@matsv201]

Actually its not that different from laser-epoxy type 3D printing that existed for over 20 years. The main concept is the same. But the method is quite different. Laser epoxy uses one or a couple of beems of laser, so its relatively slow laser-epoxy go from the top and lower the stuff down, i don´t really know what diffrents it make, but this look way cooler. Laser-epoxy is really limited in the viscosity of the stuff. Laser-epoxy, because it uses laser, its not really continuous. But in theory, they are kind of the same.... I´m just waiting to they can do polymer that is sensitive to different wave length so they can print colored objects... or objects of different materials.

[@Zoza15]

This changes everything in 3d printing..

[@ericlotze7724]

It's saddening that this was / is closed source. The huge boom of 3D Printing post-FDM being open sourced shows the possibilities. I hope they reconsider one day.

[@privatebryan1924]

No they won’t, they have to profit from it first. Then when something better comes out it’ll be open source

[@ericlotze7724]

@@privatebryan1924 Prusa Research and The Blender Foundation would like to have a word with you...

[@privatebryan1924]

@@ericlotze7724 I’m happy if they do already but I don’t know much about them

[@ugoleftillgorite]

GAME CHANGING. Without having to blow on the cartridges.

[@rust8663]

Dear china...... please make this cheaper

[@rust8663]

so 5 to 10 more years? :(

[@kistuszek]

Depends, if that wonder window can be made by them or can be substituted by something else. Provided that we could have this next year. Granted, not a consumer product since that can be a patent issue, but we could have the hart of this machine, the window. The rest is a projector, standard printer parts and a bit of thinkering.

[@gusbisbal9803]

kistuszek This is not an a completely accurate perspective. The projector has refined optics, the formulations of the resins has been tuned. The window is the break through but the music it plays comes about because of the carefully tuned orchestra around it.

[@ouwkyuha]

+gus bisbal i guess chinese golden age has done.. they have done all the innovations back then with simple inventions that become a pacemaker now..

[@ouwkyuha]

That Guy you made my day :3

[@singularitybound]

3d printing was already wow... This is like wow on crack. What's next?

[@RealTwistedTwin]

World of Warcraft?

[@phantomshotgun]

well next step would be 3d printers that can use metals but hoooooo boy i bet those are going to be regulated

[@matsv201]

I would really like to see multi channel printer. Can have plastic, rubber and acrylic in the same tub, or CMYK... or both. Just have like 10 projectors with different wavelength could print 10 material at the same time. Can have tintid windows, colored rubber, transparent stuff and so on. Also butting lenses at the projector could change the size of the printed object from a few cm up to a full meter or beyond with the same printer. A 1080P projector could make a 1 bye 0.5 meter object with a resolution of 0.5mm, or a 10 by 5 cm object with a resolution of 0,05mm. Also the small object could be printed in seconds while the same projector still can print a lot larger product but it will take hours.

[@glich610]

phantomshotgun Those actually already exist. The problem with those is that they are soo expensive to make and it is just not practical (yet?) compared t o the traditional metal manufacturing

[@MaheshBhatiya]

phantomshotgun It is already there and used commercially too. They print from very fine metal powder instead of liquid, and laser beam to form the shapes from it.

[@-TheFacelessGamer-]

That is actually pretty awesome. It's so cool that someone can create a new and cool piece of tech but someone will look at that and think "how can we improve it", "how can we make it more efficient". This guy took a 3D printer which was already really cool and improved it by making it faster and efficient.

[@ericz6057]

Water cooling 3D printer... Linus gonna love it

[@signin4079]

LTT is taking over the internet

[@agpiplup288]

Resin. Printers.

[@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7]

Finally, I can download more RAM, and it won't be a lie!

[@SreenikethanI]

haha nice one on a serious note, I guess it'd be kinda difficult since things like RAM aren't made out of just *one* material... ... until we wait for some genius to invent multi-material 3D manufacturing!!!

[@Noxoreos]

@@SreenikethanI In fact this already exists. (oh wait, ... that was sarcasm, right? :D)

[@DamTheFam]

But you already can downloadmoreram.com/ That's not a lie, it does download more ram for you.

[@SreenikethanI]

@@DamTheFam yeah that's currently the most feasible option. Both my laptops have 128 GiB ram now

[@chicxulub2947]

I can finally download a Quad-Core Processor. And It won't be a joke!

[@cxndtv]

10:00 He knew he fu*ked up

[@sbeast64]

3d printing is actually a misnomer, It’s actually 2d printing over and over, See how quickly the parts are arranged, It’s power level is over T-1000, and thus the game was changed.

[@literman1]

if you put it that way 3d is a misnomer as it's just a bunch of 2ds layered over each other------____--------.

[@yakumo961]

Sbeast Actually, even "2D" printing has 3 dimensions, at least if you talk about something involving materials like ink. It is thin, but it has a height.

[@GottHatHumor]

It also grows in the Z axis, so technically it is 3D.. still, have my like kind sir. (Y)

[@ChronicalV]

Sbeast Everything is 3D. There is no such thing as 2D.

[@NixCM]

What if 3D printing was 100x more expensive :D

[@m_sedziwoj]

Is still worth it, because is better not only faster :P

[@31415936536]

It's already been 100x more expensive. 3D Printers started in the $15-40k range. They started off being very specialized and very expensive. Advancements and competition in the field have driven the price down. Unfortunately, while printers have been made more economical, their speed hasn't changed much. This new method could change the print speed by an order of magnitude or two. Sure, it will likely drive the price up for this new style of printer. But with enough time, that could likely be made economical to the average person as well.

[@RubSomefastOnIt]

how so? only one moving axis... and just a digital projector, no laser... should be extremely cheap a few years from now, very simple printer. just needs to be mass produced...

[@momentary_]

It already happened. It's called 2010.

[@circusboy90210]

NixCM you seem 100 times more stupid

[@joshuajoshua46]

This is amazing. I hope this goes big and changes the manufacturing game for ever.

[@ultravidz]

Once in a while there comes a really good TED Talk.

[@MoonGuardian866]

i wonder when Ted is going to talk.

[@shizzywizzy6169]

Same haven't heard from him in a while......actually never to be exact

[@MattUebel]

More on the breakthrough in 3D printing. This is very exciting :)

[@davidgeier6365]

This is one of the coolest concepts I have heard of in a while. Can't wait till this is fully optimized.

[@sergeantseven4240]

SLA printing has been around much longer then terminator movies. this is old tech that's just been updated slightly.

[@ericlotze7724]

And closed sourced so noone can update this slightly for something better.

[@GtsAntoni1]

Great presentation, fascinating dude. Four years later however, and we’re still at this point. Sure, there’s been some great strides, but my guess is at least another decade before his dream is near applicable. It’s exciting that we’ll likely see this mature in our lifetimes.

[@rakshitsingh2503]

just the public dont use it

[@Carlos-qj1ls]

The patent has not expired. FDM and SLA printers only became cheap at a consumer level because back in 2009 the patent expired. Same thing for vaping, once the patent expired, tons of big and small companies developed their own versions.

[@ivo3185]

For those wondering, the M1 costs $40,000/year. :)

[@cameronsingh]

+Youthro Forget 100x faster, this is 100x more expensive!

[@istoleurfaceha3527]

You have to pay $40 000 every year?

[@ivo3185]

Steve Villacruz It's like a subscription.

[@mikstratok]

+$10,000 instalation

[@Jonathan-ex3sl]

Does that include a service contract

[@mgstark3049]

Great Video! This inspired me for my last video project on 3D printing :)

[@yiheli7894]

That information was really good!

[@user-ss6gp2gu6r]

This is just a 10 minute long advertisement for his new technology

[@fabts4]

I don't know about 100 times but watching it at twice the speed was pretty satisfying.

[@KioMilenium]

fabts4 1.5X here 😅

[@SreenikethanI]

1.25x here

[@Linkman-fm2in]

7 years later this is still amazing!

[@KeikoMushi]

3D printing was actually one of the things mentioned in the Discover Dentistry MOOC at FutureLearn. They are good with the scanning of the mouth, but there was some issue over coloration to make the fake teeth and gums look nature for the wearer of the dentures. One could feasible have their mouth scanned every few years in preparation for potential injuries. Should the need for work, the scan would be on record for various dental fields to deal with the problem.

[@S....]

$40.000 a year subscription for a machine you buy... That is game changing - a new level of greediness.

[@kistuszek]

You just did not consider what the machine would cost that this one is replacing. After all if it was not worth it nobody would buy it.

[@S....]

+kistuszek You just did not consider that noone is buying it. Becouse noone can buy it. You can rent it only.

[@kistuszek]

Dupy, Dziary, Muscle Cary. Money is money, if it does not make sense there wont be customers. No matter if bought or rented.

[@S....]

A world needs more buyers like you.

[@jimdotdev]

+Dupy, Dziary, Muscle Cary. no we dont lol :D

[@lucywucyyy]

this was 3 years ago why isnt this everywhere already?

[@lasarith2]

antsolja still prohibitively expensive, there anywhere from £3500- upwards, and the liquid print material is on average £150 per canister

[@user-hw2yd5nu9n]

wonderful speech。Lucky to watch these 3D printing videos。

[@moazelsawaf2000]

That's really interesting and i really enjoyed his talk ❤

[@starving030]

When did TED talks turn into Shark Tank?

[@MaaveMaave]

Was this a TED talk or a sales pitch?

[@tetsujin_144]

+Maave - Yes and yes.

[@icy8868]

Man, you cannot answer an OR question with AND x_x You are correct though. lol

[@nowonmetube]

Maave it was a sales pitch disguised as a TED talk.

[@garrettk7166]

Maave I enjoyed this TED Talk sales pitch. A+. It's like a Steve Jobs presentation. They are a talk and a sales pitch. But you feel pretty good about it after it's done and no, I do not own any Apple products

[@garette8672]

Maave i mean, what product of his was he pitching?

[@TheTukTuk2008]

Amazing presentation!

[@Gippo50]

Amazing step forward in digital manufacturing!

[@TryptychUK]

A brilliant concept. I knew about the "layering" problems with conventional printers, but didn't realise that their tensile strength was variable dependent on the axis of printing. This method is far more organic.

[@tarotofhappiness8402]

High school 8nterns at NIST solved that problem a number of years ago: fuse the layers by baking the printed object. Time & temp vary according to materials used to print layers.

[@sunnyskiesup]

When you have a 3D Printer and you are thinking 🤔 : „Oh well, I need this .stl of this ball now!“

[@guspaz]

Eight years later, these things flopped because they were insanely expensive with mandatory five-figure annual subscription fees. Traditional SLA printers are actually much faster in aggregate for a similar cost. Maybe it's 100x faster, but at their pricing, it costs more than 100x competing printers after a few years.

[@nea1314]

Just imagine printing structures with this, that have been designed by generative designing softwares. There would be pretty much no limitations to making the most effective design for every situation, ever geometrical structure you can think of, made by this printer, with the most efficient design being picked. Truely amazing!

[@osamabinladen1695]

*I'm glad that Mr.Wong haven't made this till now in 2019*

[@FrodeLtvedt]

6:20 "as a chemical engeneer I get verry exited in heat transphere..."

[@rollingrocky3608]

The best part is that no one laughed.

[@shukishan]

r/woooosh to the entire stage

[@tarotofhappiness8402]

Heat transfer

[@mathewstubbs2117]

Hmmmm are you sampling your own product

[@patrickbodine6010]

Got it.😉

[@vadereabsquenomen793]

This is amazing! I'm wonering what impact this will ahve on the economy, and the world of production. For now i quess that the world gets more decentralized, less bigg company's, and more personalized.

[@philkhoury]

Watching this now feels like going back in time to see a now commonplace technology before it became common

[@ThomasLee123]

Literally amazing. All technology including 3D is changing and converging at just about the same time. Powerful and precise lasers and advanced software make not just 3D printers that are thousands of times faster but other technologies like amazing batteries and zero point energy that will be like the cell phone is now versus 10 years ago. In 10 years from now we may very well have Star Trek type replicator. Just think of it and you have it. Now if we can just invent a better politician.

[@fredrikl5152]

Better politician? Hmmm a robot, the iGov? X)

[@littlestworkshop]

A vat bottom that is oxygen permeable is the only new thing here just to be clear, and plenty of others have tried that too (see yahoo groups 3D printing discussions). I still think it is cool but I find the whole inspired by Terminator thing a bit too much, they actually just worked on improving one aspect of an existing technology. What is nice is that mechanically it is just a DLP projector and single ballscrew stage, the 3D printers COULD be extremely cheap.

[@eberbacher007]

but how expensive will the material and the vat bottom be?

[@JoeGP]

eberbacher007 once mass produced pretty cheap i assume

[@eberbacher007]

Joe G.P. there are quite a number of regual 3d printers out there and the material hasn´t gotten cheaper in years. It will go the same route as printer ink and just get more and more expensive I guess.

[@Ceiryus]

Like any printer, they make the money off the ink/print material. Printers themselves can be dirt cheep. :e

[@littlestworkshop]

eberbacher007 They are referring to the material that forms the bottom of the resin vat not the resin. At the moment you can get 1kg of resin for about $50 which considering the lack of waste (other than supports) is actually quite good. 3D printer filament is not exactly massively expensive either.

[@rogerwalsberg]

I've been following this for a while. It's so expensive that small businesses can't afford it. It just enables large companies with big budgets to leap ahead of the small guy. Small companies have the best ideas and can change on a dime, but the big companies now have another way to keep us down.

[@AK_381]

How does it make the pattern for the object? Is the UV thing only like a big projector or more of a laser?

[@bill_and_amanda]

Remember when Ted Talks weren't just infomercials? Pepperidge Farms remembers...

[@ottopike737]

apparently the guy above me doesn't know the definition of irony.

[@islandonlinenews]

:) good one.

[@ptt619]

This is about the future, not about a hand powered blender.

[@jonathanozik5442]

LOLed! :D

[@daddyebzy]

I remember back in 1980 when Pepperidge Farm used to taste good

[@danmanr]

I am getting ready to print a part that will be in the machine for 42hours If I made a plastic mold, multi cavity, I could make multiple parts every minute. I don't think 3D printing will ever replace plastic injection tooling

[@puppeli]

This is awesome! The way i see it, the only advantage conventional 3D printing has left, is that it can print different materials at the same time.

[@macearth]

This is great! How about more than one type of material and one color without gluing separate pieces together?

[@Vyviel]

Nearly 2019 and this still isnt out...

[@joelx1234]

www.carbon3d.com/hardware/

[@agpiplup288]

It is, just search CLIP printers or resin printers. it has for a while, more than a year i believe

[@akumabito2008]

Very cool! I still don't think I have an immediate use for a 3D printer at home, but I can definitely see how something like this could be very useful in certain industries. :)

[@eberbacher007]

the hard thing would be to get something to print. With 2d Printing its easy. I have an awesome picture, I scan it, I print it. But with 3d its much more complicated. I have all the time little bits I would need to replace that aren´t avaiilable online (because companies want to sell you new products or expensive repair kits) -door handles (right now I have to choose between replacing all of them in the kitchen or rely on luck to find the right one since they are out of production) - little cogwheels in the washing machine that aren´t available anywhere -plastic covering of toilet pump which was cracked by a friend who repaired the pump but stepped on the plastic covering part. - This list continoues on an on and could be rounded up with the phrase "any small thing made out of plastic that doesn´t need a lot structural integrity (I wouldn´t trust a printed ladder or a printed closet hanging The thing is that I wouldn´t be available right know, to program these things so that a 3d printer could do it.

[@SangoProductions213]

akumabito2008 Well, here's the use for you: instead of 100 cubic meters of space used to manufacture each part, you have 10 cubic meters. (or 2-3, in the case of this tiny thing he show cased, but it's not really of...viable size for industrial works) Currently, parts require fairly huge and complex sets of machinery. And to get a new design, you're going to have to completely replace entire sections of the manufacturing process. With 3d printing (particularly with this new type), it's possible to go from digital to physical with an incredibly low amount of hardware, compared to today. As well, these tend to be incredibly general purpose, but still do most everything pretty darned well, so you're not going to have to cast a new mold if you are off by 57 nanometers, you'd just adjust the specs in the code.

[@JoeGP]

akumabito2008 well for the old 3D printing neither do i, it's to expensive and you can't really use the part (it's to weak), but if this can print finished products then i do, of course this would need to be able to "print" carbon fiber or metals to be truly useful, no more running down to home depo for a few nuts and bolts

[@RobertShaverOfAustin]

"I still don't think I have an immediate use for a 3D printer at home". That's exactly what was said about calculators and computers. What if you had a 3D printer that could print out whole working devices such as blenders or cooking utensils or replacement parts for stuff you already own. Check out Cory Doctorow's book *_Makers_*. It's a story about the near future where all kinds of these technologies are used by ordinary people to improve their lives. Fiction? At the moment. But fun to think about.

[@eberbacher007]

Joe G.P. Metal nuts and bolts would be quite a long shot I guess. I wouldn´t risk that, especially since if something happens, your insurance won´t cover it. But there are all sorts of plastic in our lives that are not under much stress and could easily be printed.

[@Dive_Me_Crazy]

Blender 3D is great for this, really impressive piece of software. Would love to be able to use this printer with it.

[@johnheimensem4049]

This is realy awesome and game changing ,now lets wait for the pricing

[@nebo7944]

While it definitely is, I started counting the number of times he (and showed) said "game changing"...

[@1ucasvb]

This is so damn cool! 3D printing is finally kicking into high gear.

[@tarotofhappiness8402]

It only took high school interns at NIST some years ago to solve the horizontal weakness problem of 3D additive technology: bake the resulting piece to fuse layers well. Time & temp vary with the materials used to print.

[@phantomenergies]

I'm totally onboard with this, I just wish he had discussed the limitations of this process.

[@Lerppunen]

Absolutely incredible.

[@orbik_fin]

2:53 Oh neat idea, 3D printing by growing mushrooms.

[@shahirkazi8766]

Leo DiCaprio could download a Razzie.

[@lloydcabahug]

+Shahir Muktasid not anymore haha

[@vintagemelenium7519]

+Lloyd Cabahug maybe a ballon'dor

[@nosuchthing8]

Update your comment

[@tonywang9026]

ohhhhhh snap

[@DrBrainTickler]

Absolutely revolutionary! I will be paying attention to this.

[@aidanbotham442]

We learned about this in my engineering class as part of a solidworks 3d printing certification... no idea it was this new

[@dreaminginnoother]

living in the future is amazing.

[@ms2k7Gaming]

Sadly we live in the past half of the stuff we use today is outdated yet people think it's amazing and futuristic lol

[@mrstanlez]

nothing, I need 1000x faster or more. Have you ever printed 3D real car ?

[@theactualeverest5088]

This was 5 years ago why has this not taken off

[@jrwilliams]

great work.

[@m.berrada3696]

the only problem is that they're a bit too expensive.

[@elijahclay3292]

where van I get one?

[@m.berrada3696]

+Elijah Clay well...you can't. the project is still in progress. there is another company however that makes the same type of printers but waaaaay waaaaaaaay more expensive than you expect. So if you want a 3d printer just go for an ultimaker V2(costly) or a robo 3d R1+(cheap) depending on you budget.

[@elijahclay3292]

+Mohamed Berrada thanks

[@m.berrada3696]

+Elijah Clay anytime :)

[@jinghu5027]

+Mohamed Berrada We will release a desk-top 3D printer with affordable price.

[@Stimpy77]

What would impress me is if there is a material that this printer can print with that is a really good electrical conductor and is very heat tolerant. Once that happens we will be able to construct "logic cubes" instead of flat microprocessors and motherboards. Think about this for a moment. Providing hollow airway passages throughout, imagine circuitry baked into a large "logic cube", and consider how much "brain" you could put into that kind of space. For comparison, consider the "server blades" we currently have in backoffice server rooms, where 10 or even 20 fully powered computers are stacked into the space of three to six pizzabox-height computer racks.

[@theapriler]

The SLA printers from Formlabs have consumable resin trays that are somewhat cost prohibitive for production beyond prototyping.

[@iandorian611]

Finally! My graduate thesis suggested this as a reality. Most saw me as a fantasy artist and dismissed my art. I designed nano machines and organic/synthetic plants, limbs, objects and presented them as blue prints. I even made 3d objects implying this technology (although it was by combining synthetic and organic materials for installations). I've always known it was only a matter if time before my fantastic ideas of manufacturing and nano technology would become a reality. In the most intellectual way possible I say to those that had no vision :-P. Great job guys!

[@mecemodzada8315]

I just clapped when the crowd did... First time I ever do this for a video. We have to fund this further!!!! Come on billionaires, invest in this!

[@lightless]

He's wrong, you can mould the object if the moulding is liquid after.

[@Tonatsi]

Problem: melting the mould without damaging the plastic

[@KristofferEk]

its interesting thing is you need to get it out to both companies and indipendent creators to really test the techs mettle and get good feed back on it.

[@Petra44YT]

I was just looking through my old letters from the 1990s. In fact, I'm scanning them in so I can keep them. And it is amazing what kind of printers we used back then. One of my penpals had a weird dot matrix printer that only printed capital letters. I had a not so cheap b/w inkjet printer (500 DM at the time, if I remember correctly). No-one would have dreamed of owning a color laser printer, let alone of sending the entire letter through the phone wires as e-mail. ... And this was just 25 years ago! So who knows. Maybe 25 years from now, we'll have printed cars and airplanes.

[@SinanAkkoyun]

*THE POWER OF LIGHT AND OXYGEN* reference to Tested

[@tenancingogarcia]

Finally I'll print out My soulmate..

[@user-el5gf1ds8o]

Cool! This is really a very interesting 3D printing

[@DoganT.]

would it be possible to create a mix of two liquids that react with different lights so that multi-color/multi-material prints could be made?

[@sirethi]

"Things like REPLICATORS (3-d printing) will make hunger non existent" - Michio Kaku

[@fz4097]

Life hack : Buy a 3d printer....PRINT A 3D PRINTER....return the original 3d printer...

[@kingneutron1]

*StarTrekReplicator has entered the thread*

[@nateblack972]

Exciting stuff!!

[@salabhsg]

Awaiting ahead are the days we might be able to download the ram i am promised with.

[@gamepro94z]

Funny how he talk about fuel efficient cars and shows a Telsa that uses no fuel.

[@MrChillder]

gamepro94z thats about a fuel efficient as you can get. Electricity is still a form a fuel, and creating a lighter rigid product would mean less electricity is required to drive it forward.

[@gamepro94z]

tushay

[@yuhboi_ratmann]

gamepro94z Tesla needs to pay attention to this tech if they wanna make their Model 3 affordable. The Model S requires an aluminum body to get its impressive mileage, which is why it costs so much.

[@Ddub1083]

gamepro94z tesla uses fuel.... it runs on coal. ITs just that the coal is burned at a power plant not in the car. Its more efficient than burning the fuel in a car for sure but the tesla CERTAINLY runs on fuel

[@Rainofskulz]

+Ddub1083 Aswell as power plants having higher fuel efficiency, fossil fuels don't account for all energy generation. The price of solar is on a very consistent trend downwards also where it will eventually undercut oil and coal significantly. Fossil fuels have a strong hold now but they'll eventually become not just unhealthy and impractical but economically nonsensical. /rantover

[@DEANRISSIN]

Plot twist: The ball was underneath the liquid the whole time

[@MikeXwolf]

Does anybody know if this is available for purchase anywhere yet?

[@Frogboy1728]

I saw the video and didn't notice the date posted. This is the 3D printer I currently use at work, I was hoping there was something 100x faster because this is still slow af lol

[@wndw2000]

Everyone talking about the pricing just wait a year or two and they will be making these in China for a few hundred bucks a piece

[@digibluh]

they already were a year before your comment. this guy is selling HIS version of something already on the market. it's just a DLP/SLA printer.... and they go from $400 on the cheap to $3K on the top (form labs)

[@nowonmetube]

wndw2000 I'm waiting for 3 years already!

[@nowonmetube]

digibluh no it's not just it. It's different

[@arewhyinoh8595]

Technically if it was 2 dimensional it would never build up.

[@robindgordon]

truly mind blowing!

[@miketun1922]

This will create amazing material for our menkind future for some time.

[@supercoolmunkee]

*This guy:* I can't wait to see what designers and engineers around the world are going to be able to do with this great tool. *The Hacksmith:* Hold my designs

[@Naderade]

I honestly dont see much of a point in 3d printing for manufacturing. I mean it's fantastic for some things but you dont need it for absolutely everything. Ive also always seen it as a tool to make stuff at home that you cant buy or just have the idea for.

[@nivekkevin2348]

TheycallmeNade Its mostly to improve the quality and cost efficiency of items, or atleast thats what its aim to be

[@HomelessSoldierMan]

TheycallmeNade prototyping is about the only thing I can think of

[@icy8868]

3D printing is important in emergencies, remote locations and especially for objects with complex structures. Ultimately 3D printing is what will bring us one step closer to molecular printing. You could take common atoms like hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen etc. and assemble them to get exactly the material properties you need. Why wouldnt you want to print a healthy dinner and a drink in a few seconds? Or medicine when you need it.

[@tarotofhappiness8402]

The PhD 8n charge of setting national standards at NIST for 3D printing in USA said 3D printing in necessary for space missions. Even ships st sea tend to carry half their cargo capacity in spare parts. Space missions cannot carry all the spare parts they might need. Thus, taking a 3 D printer, materials to print with & download patterns as needed works for that. National Geographic has published on the topic of our young sun being in a heating up phase, not a cooling down phase--such that Earth is going to be within the too hot ring in the solar system. That is why science/ engineering projects are focused on colonizing Mars. M3dicine says human bones can't stay strong for the trip. Future prediction computer programs continually predict cultural failures that never happen--because people work on solving problems. Methods are not perfect or fast, but human beings don't adjust well to rapid change continually.

[@carlklopfenstine3248]

Could they print a tube as large as the hyperloop tube.? Print as you go, maybe underground?

[@GottHatHumor]

Does someone knows where to get the CAD file of their test print there?