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making your own LEGO parts
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:06:18 GMT
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A while ago I was watching the Discovery channel and saw a program in which
some scientists somewhere were building plastic models using a computer. From
what I understood, there's a big vat of molten plastic which cools and hardens
as it rises out of the heated tub. A laser then trims the cooling plastic to
the desired shape and dimension. I was wondering if this process could be
used to build your own LEGO parts? It would be like having a printer attached
to your computer that builds objects instead of just displaying them.
Mike
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| I've seen the same footage. As I understood the narrative, it's an epoxy-like resin that is hardened by the laser light. The laser is computer-controlled to build the item in question a layer at a time, as the item is lowered into the resin bath. As (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: making your own LEGO parts
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| Michael Horvath wrote in message ... (...) From (...) hardens (...) to (...) attached (...) The process is called Stereo Lithography. At least one of the processes... It is a laser-hardened low grade plastic that acts as a 3-D plotter for CAD (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: making your own LEGO parts
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| We've (Well, I should say the development guys at IBM) have started using this process to make some of the plastic parts in our servers. Needless to say, unless you've won the $1 Billion powerball and have a few bits of cash floating around in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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