Can we apply this to luthiery? Science fiction?

[deadedith]

I sent this to Ken Cierp and then thought that the Forumites would enjoy it. I read a lot of science fiction - the hard science stuff - but this appears to be right now..wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw


Or is it a joke? Anyone know?

[Ben-Had]

Seems to be real. What I read quickly said it comes out as ABS or ABS+
plastic. More reading required for me to totally grasp this.

[tippie53]

Where I used to work we have a 3d printer. This was a bit different from the one shown but it was about 10 yrs ago. It was a design tool that made a 3D image of a design. Not science fiction .

[Kevin Sjostrand]

I watched that. It is incredible. I can't believe it is real.
No way, no how.

Kevin

[deadedith]

In principle it seems to make sense.
Now of course there are people wanting to do that mapping on a brain, download it onto a chip, and be able to reload it into a blank brain - if there is such a thing, LOTS of speculation about that - and have that person (from the time of the scan) recreated into a cloned body/bland brain. That way we could travel to the stars - 10K years, who cares? Wake the chip up when it reaches a habitable planet, embed it in the body, the 'person' (?) wakes up and goes to work.
It is fun to think about, and the truth will be stranger than the fiction. :-)

[tippie53]

My Dad always said that if someone could think it someone would make

[David L]

I know where to get a blank brain!

David L

[deadedith]

Me too, but it is not fair to pick on our elected officials! :-)

[Herman]

Making a 3d structure in one piece seems possible to me, but making a tool with internal funtions with seperate parts and printed in one lap is one step too far for me.
In my perception there is no scanner with "harmless" light that an see through a metal tool and look for internal parts. You need x-ray or stronger.

My vote for this film is: "fiction", at leat some parts of it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Herman

[Kevin Sjostrand]

Yes Herman, it is the moving parts, already assembled that seems to far fetched to be real.

Kevin