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Re: making your own LEGO parts
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 19 Dec 1999 06:14:06 GMT
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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 multi million dollar area and want to
plunk down on it, go for it, I've got a few pieces to replicate.
Otherwise, will be cool when you can just 'print out' stuff 10 20 years from
now, if that's the way tech is going.
l8r
Tom
"Michael Horvath" <mikehorvath@juno.com> wrote in message
news:FMt72I.J23@lugnet.com...
> 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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| (...) The nearest 'practical' equivalent I can think of, are the 'micro' CNC milling machines, these allow surfaces to be very accurately milled, and start at anout 10000 dollars. I have access to one used for making 'one off' prototypes of stuff, (...) (24 years ago, 19-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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