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Old July 14th 17, 10:42 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.electronics.design
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:17:55 -0700, Fred J. McCall
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:24:38 -0400, "Robert Clark"
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"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message
...
=============================================== =====================
...
3D printing actually is quite useful as part of a bespoke
jewellery-making process. You design a 3D model using a CAD program
such as Jewelsmith, print a positive, then use investment casting to
produce a one-time mold, which is used to mold precious metal.


No one said that 3D printers weren't useful. The argument is whether
they'll take over traditional manufacturing. That is, everyone makes
what they need at home, on their magic printer.


That is NOT the argument for most of us. The argument is whether they
are 'game changing' or not. Jimp the Chimp argues that they are niche
applications at best and will never be anything else. The
counter-argument is when you start listing niches and potential
niches, pretty soon you're changing the game in a lot of places.


The "next industrial revolution" is a bit more than you pretend above.
You're wrong.
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Old July 14th 17, 10:50 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.electronics.design
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:03:36 -0000, wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:11:27 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:45:42 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,

says...


I can see a few, very few, people printing junk jewelry, mostly teenage
girls.

Perhaps, but have you been to a craft store in the last 5 years?
They've been selling commercial 2d robotic cutters for many years that
are about the size of an ink-jet printer. The stupid thing shows
absolutely no sign of stopping even though the "cartridges" which
contain the cutting patterns are DRM protected and *very* expensive.
They are mostly used by people who like to do scrap books, but others
use them for making their own greeting cards and etc.

In those same craft stores is a large jewelery making section. Those
"memory bracelets" people make are a hot thing because "every item on it
represents a memory". In other words, these things are already highly
customized.

So, I wouldn't discount the notion that the crafts stores might start
selling very small 3d metal printers for making little dangling things
for jewelery (memory bracelets, necklace charms, and etc.) since this
would drop right into the market-space. They would only need to print
at most 3" x 3" x 3" to cover 99% of the jewelery market.

That same metal printer would sell "big league" at game stores where
custom cast characters for board games are already a huge market. In
other words Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, and etc. Even if an
individual player wouldn't want one, every damn game store on the planet
would want at least a couple.

Jeff

By those standards black powder firearms will take over the firearms world.

I'm not saying there is not and will not be a bunch of niche users of
3D printing.

What I am saying is that 3D printing is not going to be the next industrial
revolution.

Personal 3D printing won't be the next industrial revolution. 3D
printing is already revolutionizing engineering.

Nonsense.

3D printing is simply making some prototypes easiery to make.


Just as PCs made prototypes *faster* and easier to design. Rather
revolutionary. Really.


Actually real engineering companies were using CAD software well before
there was such a thing as a PC. Really.


If you define "real engineering companies" as those who could afford
mainframes, sure. Everyone else was using rubylith. Even the IC
guys.

CAD software has to a certain extent revolutionized engineering, but that
is very old news.


And 3D printing takes it to the next level.


That and N/C controlled mills and lathes.


In exactly that same setting, sure. *NOT* in everyone's home.
  #184  
Old July 14th 17, 10:55 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.electronics.design
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:07:44 -0000, wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:18:43 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:37:59 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics "Greg \(Strider\) Moore" wrote:
"David Mitchell" wrote in message
o.uk...

wrote:
In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote:
wrote:

OK, what "stuff" would people be making at home?

Jewellry, utilities, tools, gadgets.

Could you be any more vague?

Yes. Yes I could.

Things. People will make things. All of the things.

I suspect 3D printing at home will be as successful as the personal
computer. I mean everyone knows they're useless at home and we'll only need
a few major mainframes.

Personal computer use in the home is dropping with increased use of smart
phones for those important tasks such as posting on twitter and facebook.

Banking and Amazon, too. Though that isn't to say that there isn't
anything beyond the 3D printer.

Like what, a 4D printer?

Of course the ultimate would be a genuine Star Trek replicator:

"Computer a 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom and a cup of Earl Grey, hot."

Which reminds me, I need to tell my friends who own 3D printers and printing
parts to fix things at homes, tools, and tool holders and all manner of
things that I never would have thought of myself that they're wrong and no
one will effectively use a 3D printer at home.

How many people do you know that own 3D printers?

I know of none but we have several at work. One of my cow-orkers was
going to buy one and use it as a side business but he figured out that
it made no business sense.

Could that be because custom machine shops have real industrial grade
3D printers?


So you think that after everyone has a 3D printer, the world will end?
Are you some sort of 3D Rastafarian, or something?


I think the likelyhood of everyone having a 3D printer is quite remote.


But that's the point of this thread.

But let me put it another way.... If 3D printers are the "next
thing", are you saying that there can't be any "next, next thing"? The
world ends after "next"?
  #185  
Old July 15th 17, 12:10 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.electronics.design
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Default Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.

wrote:

In sci.physics "Greg \(Strider\) Moore" wrote:
wrote in message ...

In sci.physics "Greg \(Strider\) Moore"
wrote:
"David Mitchell" wrote in message
o.uk...

wrote:
In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote:
wrote:

OK, what "stuff" would people be making at home?

Jewellry, utilities, tools, gadgets.

Could you be any more vague?

Yes. Yes I could.

Things. People will make things. All of the things.

I suspect 3D printing at home will be as successful as the personal
computer. I mean everyone knows they're useless at home and we'll only
need
a few major mainframes.

Personal computer use in the home is dropping with increased use of smart
phones for those important tasks such as posting on twitter and facebook.


This actually hurts your point. A dozen or more years ago, no one would have
imagined using phones for what we use them for now.

And really a smart phone is just a tiny computer that happens to make phone
calls. Again, it's the same argument made decades ago but folks not needing
computers in the home.


Very few people want a computer in their home, most people want an
entertainment device.

Which reminds me, I need to tell my friends who own 3D printers and
printing
parts to fix things at homes, tools, and tool holders and all manner of
things that I never would have thought of myself that they're wrong and
no
one will effectively use a 3D printer at home.

How many people do you know that own 3D printers?


I'd have to poll, but at least 2 I'm sure of, and I think the number is
closer to 6. And if I include access to them at libraries, workerspaces,
etc. then easily dozens.


I know about a dozen people that own things like welders, milling machines,
drill presses, and lathes but no one that owns a 3D printer.


Really? You need to get out more. I'd say the number of folks I know who own
3D printers is about the same as those who own the other items you mention.


I will admit I know very few teenagers.

Honestly, it's pretty damn presumptuous to claim that there's no future
to
3D printing at home. I suspect 10-20 years from now we'll be laughing at
such claims. Like computers, it will continue to improve. It'll get
faster,
more capable, capable of using more materials, etc.

Since no one in this thread has made that claim, your post is nonsense.



That is basically your claim.


Yet another knee jerker that reads what they think was written and not
what was actually written.


Chimp, when everyone sees you saying something you insist you haven't
said, the problem is not everyone else...


--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn
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Old July 15th 17, 12:11 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.electronics.design
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Default Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.

wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:17:55 -0700, Fred J. McCall
wrote:

wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:24:38 -0400, "Robert Clark"
wrote:

"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message
m...
============================================== ======================
...
3D printing actually is quite useful as part of a bespoke
jewellery-making process. You design a 3D model using a CAD program
such as Jewelsmith, print a positive, then use investment casting to
produce a one-time mold, which is used to mold precious metal.

No one said that 3D printers weren't useful. The argument is whether
they'll take over traditional manufacturing. That is, everyone makes
what they need at home, on their magic printer.


That is NOT the argument for most of us. The argument is whether they
are 'game changing' or not. Jimp the Chimp argues that they are niche
applications at best and will never be anything else. The
counter-argument is when you start listing niches and potential
niches, pretty soon you're changing the game in a lot of places.


The "next industrial revolution" is a bit more than you pretend above.
You're wrong.


Thank you, Assertions R Us.


--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn
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Old July 15th 17, 12:49 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.electronics.design
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In sci.physics wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:03:36 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:11:27 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:45:42 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,

says...


I can see a few, very few, people printing junk jewelry, mostly teenage
girls.

Perhaps, but have you been to a craft store in the last 5 years?
They've been selling commercial 2d robotic cutters for many years that
are about the size of an ink-jet printer. The stupid thing shows
absolutely no sign of stopping even though the "cartridges" which
contain the cutting patterns are DRM protected and *very* expensive.
They are mostly used by people who like to do scrap books, but others
use them for making their own greeting cards and etc.

In those same craft stores is a large jewelery making section. Those
"memory bracelets" people make are a hot thing because "every item on it
represents a memory". In other words, these things are already highly
customized.

So, I wouldn't discount the notion that the crafts stores might start
selling very small 3d metal printers for making little dangling things
for jewelery (memory bracelets, necklace charms, and etc.) since this
would drop right into the market-space. They would only need to print
at most 3" x 3" x 3" to cover 99% of the jewelery market.

That same metal printer would sell "big league" at game stores where
custom cast characters for board games are already a huge market. In
other words Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, and etc. Even if an
individual player wouldn't want one, every damn game store on the planet
would want at least a couple.

Jeff

By those standards black powder firearms will take over the firearms world.

I'm not saying there is not and will not be a bunch of niche users of
3D printing.

What I am saying is that 3D printing is not going to be the next industrial
revolution.

Personal 3D printing won't be the next industrial revolution. 3D
printing is already revolutionizing engineering.

Nonsense.

3D printing is simply making some prototypes easiery to make.

Just as PCs made prototypes *faster* and easier to design. Rather
revolutionary. Really.


Actually real engineering companies were using CAD software well before
there was such a thing as a PC. Really.


If you define "real engineering companies" as those who could afford
mainframes, sure. Everyone else was using rubylith. Even the IC
guys.


Ever heard of the PDP-8 or the HP CAD workstations that were common well
before the PC?

CAD software has to a certain extent revolutionized engineering, but that
is very old news.


And 3D printing takes it to the next level.


That and N/C controlled mills and lathes.


In exactly that same setting, sure. *NOT* in everyone's home.


3D printers go for less than $200; I see no rush by consumers to buy them.


--
Jim Pennino
  #189  
Old July 15th 17, 12:53 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.electronics.design
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Default Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.

In sci.physics wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:07:44 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 02:18:43 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics
wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:37:59 -0000,
wrote:

In sci.physics "Greg \(Strider\) Moore" wrote:
"David Mitchell" wrote in message
o.uk...

wrote:
In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote:
wrote:

OK, what "stuff" would people be making at home?

Jewellry, utilities, tools, gadgets.

Could you be any more vague?

Yes. Yes I could.

Things. People will make things. All of the things.

I suspect 3D printing at home will be as successful as the personal
computer. I mean everyone knows they're useless at home and we'll only need
a few major mainframes.

Personal computer use in the home is dropping with increased use of smart
phones for those important tasks such as posting on twitter and facebook.

Banking and Amazon, too. Though that isn't to say that there isn't
anything beyond the 3D printer.

Like what, a 4D printer?

Of course the ultimate would be a genuine Star Trek replicator:

"Computer a 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom and a cup of Earl Grey, hot."

Which reminds me, I need to tell my friends who own 3D printers and printing
parts to fix things at homes, tools, and tool holders and all manner of
things that I never would have thought of myself that they're wrong and no
one will effectively use a 3D printer at home.

How many people do you know that own 3D printers?

I know of none but we have several at work. One of my cow-orkers was
going to buy one and use it as a side business but he figured out that
it made no business sense.

Could that be because custom machine shops have real industrial grade
3D printers?

So you think that after everyone has a 3D printer, the world will end?
Are you some sort of 3D Rastafarian, or something?


I think the likelyhood of everyone having a 3D printer is quite remote.


But that's the point of this thread.


That was one of my points.

The post that started all this was claiming people would be printing
everything at home including cars; utter nonsense.

But let me put it another way.... If 3D printers are the "next
thing", are you saying that there can't be any "next, next thing"? The
world ends after "next"?


3D printers are over 30 years old.

"The world ends" is babble.


--
Jim Pennino
 




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