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Re: making your own LEGO parts
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:44:54 GMT
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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 I understand it NASA is looking into this kind of tech for extended manned
spaceflights, i.e. Mars or Europa or wherever, so they can use it to
manufacture spare parts as needed rather than carrying stuff that might not be
needed at all.
This kind of tech might make it to commercial use sometime in the next couple
decades (an uneducated way-out-there guess), but don't count on it being cheap
enough to make Lego parts.
K.M.
In lugnet.general, Michael Horvath writes:
> 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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| Recently Mike Stanley posted about doing some homemade pitchforks. Don't know if he posted the results of his experiment, but it sounded awfully intriguing to make your own special pieces. TJ (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: making your own LEGO parts
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| Kevin Maynes <ERASETHISBITkmaynes...surfr.com> wrote in message news:FMt8uu.33r@lugnet.com... (...) epoxy-like (...) computer-controlled to (...) the (...) manned (...) not be (...) couple (...) cheap (...) Some decades?..Even here in Turkey, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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