What Would You Build?
 

I want this so much!



It's a 3d printer that can produce just about any object you are able to model in a CAD program. It builds them out of the same sort of plastic from which Lego is made. And this one, which comes as a kit you assemble, costs only $750US. Considering that the cheapest one I've heard of before this cost more than $10,000US, that's amazing.

That said... I don't actually know what I'd make with it. Probably just little toys and knicknacks. I'd probably also start working on more robotty projects when I knew I could make any gear or unique part I liked.



So, my question is, what would you build with your own 3d printer?



EDIT: the same company is building a 3d scanner kit, so you could scan any object and reproduce it. Starting with my wang.

Ur Mom. :tard:

You know it's coming so I'll get it out of the way. A dildo... just because I could.

I have just thought of one!

The statue of David!

Damn that would look good

A replica of a gun. rob some places! xD "I didn't go to any fuel stations lately" >.>

All of the above are things you could purchase for very little cash on ebay. Try thinking a bit more imaginatively.

Although buying a dildo on ebay would probably not be all that good an idea

Jupiter.

Is that ok?

the Q1. (only aussies would know this) It would make an awesome 1/48 model in my room or on the bar in the lounge room! O.o

Chess pieces. Random sculptures I'd put everywhere.

Even then, I doubt most Australians outside of Queensland know what Q1 refers to other than 'that tall building at Surfers'.

Alcar...

Any architectural ideas I get. Domes, bridges, sky scrapers. Sculptures too. And, for no apparant reason, giant words.

Yes. I didn't even know it could refer to 'that tall building at Surfers'.

But what else does it refer to?


Or am I getting caught out by grammatical vagueness?

I only meant by the building, I thought other people outside of Queensland knew about, Or at least remember it... Eh, It still would be sweet having a realistically detailed model of the whole building.

I've been to Queensland once in the last decade and that was before the Q1 building was finished.

Would you recognise the Eureka Tower if it fell on you?

I would build my own minature Dalek. I would look at it, point and say "I made that!".

It's unbelievable how well technology's coming on. It's really excellent what they can do now.

I think I'd make a miniature city. Then I could make little guys and street lamps to go with it. I'll never get this though, because I know I'll just screw it up and only use it so much.

And then since It's made out of the same plastic that Lego is built out of, I might make my own little bits and bobs for it.:D

Probably not... xD

Just saying, it would be interesting to have...

The Venus De Milo!

That would be cool

I would slowly piece by piece build another me and just leave him at work; along with other places I'd rather not be.

I like Anonyman!'s idea, I'd make some bizarre statues and put them everywhere in my home, as part of the decoration.

How much do the base material cost?

sounds daft but i'd make loads of dice.

i'm always losing the ones i've got, seeing as i sometimes like to play a few board games.

I'd made tiny models of all my creations.

Yes.

I'd do this across my entire house/room. Build little pipes into the ridges along the walls, piece together a small inclinator for stairs, use a system of motors and tracks to create the illusion of people walking around, and see if adding a flammable liquid into the lego-plastic mix is possible.
After igniting a portion of the 'city' a jury-rigged fire-alarm system will speed up all of the motors and small poles will raise the small people's hands as they go by, making them appear to be panicking. The fire will be controlled, but 'guided' to the inclinator, where all of the people will have grouped to escape. The fire will burn through the inclinator's support wires and drive belt and it will crash, trapping all of the people inside and incinerating them.

Also, if you're into DnD or Warhammer or anything else like that, you could make some inexpensive minis. Saves you a ridiculous amount. Of course, I doubt any official Games Workshop store will allow that nonsense in their tourneys.

I would make a tiny version of my friends car, and switch his real car with the model while he sleeps.

I'm an asshole like that.

Depending on colour, between $30 and $60US for five pounds, though at this time the colour options are black, white and translucent white.

The link in my first post goes to the company's website and their store.

I'd make a replica of a PS3 and then try selling it.

Fucking SP and their fucking show off beaches.

For the short amount of time I played, I saw, bricks, tins, and army men used.

You're going to have to make an AC plug and Video cables, too, as well as put in something to weigh it down.

Unless you're selling it on the internet.

For DnD? Yeah. But Warhammer only allows the actual minis in their official games I believe.

Because Games Workshop are dicks.

Yeah. They really are.

And the employees at their stores are fucktarded. It's like going to a goddamn Gamestop.

I think I may have the only non-fucktarded EB Games/Gamestop in the world. All of the employees know their shit, and if one doesn't know something another almost always does.

This is when you hack the model files from your favourite games, convert them, and replicate your very own merchandise.

This would certainly make it worth finally acquiring and learning a 3D modelling software (like Maya, not like ProDesktop... actually, this printer would have made my product design A-levels so much easier). I have lots of designs I would like to recreate, not least because I draw best from reference, and a mannequin-like object for sketching different angles of my strange creations would be a godsend.

And if I haven't got a 3d printer?

Yep. :)

I'd love to actually learn how to sculpt by hand, but that just doesn't seem likely. I think the execution of an idea is important, but the idea itself is just as important. It's not like this would lower the value of sculpting by giving this ability to everyone.

I'll be carefull to word do nobody can accuse me of anything.

You'd be surprised at how decisive people can be. In one of my stupider moments I tried selling "DS software" in the form of a CD with an emulator on it. I made it more or less airtight but Ebay had it down in hours.

Similarly, I tried selling "BRAND NEW XBOX 360 pics". Someone won the auction but it was really close to christmas, so I told them that I was trying to trick people and apologized. The guy was pretty understanding.

Like what BM said, this would of made my Design Technology Graphics GCSE so much better than it is.

Did you really do this or is this just for the humor lol?