Now We Have Super Fast 3D Printing
In recent years, 3D printing has been all the rage in tech. From the 3D pen to gigantic 3D printers, it seems 3D printing is the wave of the future. One problem with 3D printing is that it takes a while to sometimes print large objects.
Joseph DeSimone explains it at TED how a new generation of 3D printing is coming.
“What we think of as 3D printing,” says Joseph DeSimone, “is really just 2D printing over and over … slowly.” Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique — inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 — that’s 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts. Could it finally help to fulfill the tremendous promise of 3D printing?
If you’ve ever watched a 3D printer in action, DeSimone is correct. It’s basically printing layers on layers to make a final product. This new tech is based on what looks like pulling 3D objects out of liquid. Imagine years from now where we have gigantic pools of this material where you could pull designs the sizes of houses out of them. Imagine pulling out molds for cars instead of taking hours constructing them in pieces that were molded from a dozen different places.
Check out the Carbon3D printer in action:
Let’s just make sure we don’t make an indestructible killing machine from it.
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