While searching on my second favorite blog site, I stumbled upon a commercial 3-D printer for under.......$70,000? nope $30,000? wrong again! $3,000? WRONG! for under $1,000 the average Joe can now have his or her own 3-D printer! Unlike traditional 3-D printers which melt layer after layer of expensive nylon the CupCake CNC machine extrudes layers of HDPE or ABS plastic! The only negative I see out of this machine is the extrusions are about 1/2 of a millimeter instead of .1 millimeters. Then again I would be willing to sacrifice a little bit of detail for a lot of savings! Now if any part of your UAV breaks then all you have to do is "print" a new one! here is the website to the wiki (www.wiki.makerbot.com) and to the store(www.store.makerbot.com). Also there is another website called "Thingiverse" (www.thingverse.com) which is basically a youtube for all the "things" people create in CAD programs! This project was inspired by a project for affordable printing called all machines a RepRap machines, but this machine is a RepStrap which means it can actually print out a RepRap machine. (www.RepRap.Org)IF THIS IS A RE-POST LET ME KNOW! ill remove this if it is.
Thank you for the reminder..........how stupid of me to forget the RepRap project but the CupCake CNC is a RepStrap which means it can actually print a RepRap machine
Please don't forget or overlook the RepRap project www.reprap.org the Birth place of all open source self replicating 3D printing and the Bits from Bytes version 3 www.bitsfrombytes.com
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