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Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.
David Mitchell
wrote: Like I've said before, most people can't be bothered to make things as trivial as bread and biscuits. Well, lots of people *do* make bread and biscuits; and a series about baking was one of the most popular UK programs for some time. There was a fad for affordable automatic breadmakers in the nineties. I'm happy enough with cheap factory bread, but I offered that my wife might want one. She didn't. I haven't heard much about them lately. Perhaps shrunken kitchens don't have the counter space for single-use devices. -- We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current. |
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Jeff Findley wrote:
Baking bread or making biscuits from scratch is a time consuming, labor intensive, p.i.t.a. I don't think downloading a file from the Internet and hitting "print" on the 3D printer is as difficult, but I guess that's my opinion. http://tinyurl.com/y8stp6jc http://www.robinhood.ca/Recipes/Bread-Machine -- We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current. |
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 05:02:14 -0000, wrote:
In sci.physics wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:49:22 -0000, wrote: 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? So no one really used Rubylith? IOW, nonsense. Not what I said. The point is that CAD on minicomputers was very minimal. It was the domain of the mainframe. Rubylith was the tool of choice for the electronics industry. |
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 06:36:41 +0100, David Mitchell
wrote: wrote: In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote: wrote: In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote: wrote: In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote: 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. Great, yet another techno nerd weenie who spends way too much time watching Star Trek reruns. Bless. It's almost as though you imagine anyone give even the tinest of ****s what you think. It's almost as though you imagine I think puerile techno nerds represent the average person. I think you need to find a better insult - "techno nerd" is a bit tautologous - and I've never made any particular claim to represent anyone. How about pie-in-the-sky dreamer? Like I've said before, most people can't be bothered to make things as trivial as bread and biscuits. Well, lots of people *do* make bread and biscuits; and a series about baking was one of the most popular UK programs for some time. Watching is not making. As I keep, apparently, having to explain - I am talking about *mature* fabrication technology - something capable of working with multiple materials, and able to fabricate something at the push of a button more quickly than driving to buy it, and more cheaply. Not going to happen. |
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 05:06:13 -0000, wrote:
In sci.physics wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:53:00 -0000, wrote: 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. You seem to think I'm disagreeing with you. That the post that started all this was claiming people would be printing everything at home including cars? That wasn't my claim! I've been arguing on your side of that silly proposition. I don't see you saying anything about the post that started all this. You're not looking. 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. Let me make this simple for the simple. If 3D printers are "the next thing". Why is there not another "thing" beyond "the next thing"? End of the world? 3D printers are an old thing. Woooosssshhhh! Are you saying we will have Star Trek replicators? Do pay attention. Wow! |
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In sci.physics wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 05:02:14 -0000, wrote: snip Ever heard of the PDP-8 or the HP CAD workstations that were common well before the PC? So no one really used Rubylith? IOW, nonsense. Not what I said. The point is that CAD on minicomputers was very minimal. It was the domain of the mainframe. Rubylith was the tool of choice for the electronics industry. That was not my experience. Yes, companies used Rubylith, but the tool of choice was CAD on minicomputers. The only mainframe application was Spice. -- Jim Pennino |
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In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote:
wrote: In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote: wrote: In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote: wrote: In sci.physics David Mitchell wrote: 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. Great, yet another techno nerd weenie who spends way too much time watching Star Trek reruns. Bless. It's almost as though you imagine anyone give even the tinest of ****s what you think. It's almost as though you imagine I think puerile techno nerds represent the average person. I think you need to find a better insult - "techno nerd" is a bit tautologous - and I've never made any particular claim to represent anyone. How about pie-in-the-sky dreamer? Like I've said before, most people can't be bothered to make things as trivial as bread and biscuits. Well, lots of people *do* make bread and biscuits; and a series about baking was one of the most popular UK programs for some time. Do you know the meaning of the word "most"? As I keep, apparently, having to explain - I am talking about *mature* fabrication technology - something capable of working with multiple materials, and able to fabricate something at the push of a button more quickly than driving to buy it, and more cheaply. In other words, a Star Trek replicator which doesn't exist and likely will never exist. -- Jim Pennino |
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In sci.physics Lofty Goat wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:29:28 -0000, wrote: It's almost as though you imagine I think puerile techno nerds represent the average person. Not to belabor a point, but about those nerds.... They invented the aerospace industry. They invented the electronics industry, and made out pretty well. They invented information and communication technology and took money to the bank by the truckload. (Seeing a trend here?) They're busily engaged in inventing robots, biological engineering, applied genetics. Most of the people involved were hard working, level headed engineers and programmers working in teams not socially inept loners in mommy's basement. So, no, they don't represent the average person. They represent the above-average person. I'm a nerd, in my own modest way, and damn' proud of it. Your definition of nerd is not my definition of nerd. Hell Jim, you used to be an electrical engineer, didn't you? Have you thanked a nerd lately? You should. Nope. -- Jim Pennino |
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