Today is a rapid-prototyping kind of day it seems. For starters an entry I wrote for WorldChanging has been posted (Link). I don’t doubt some readers will wonder about the subject (btw, the title isn’t mine). The idea of a glue composite somehow being a replacement material for all the technolust items on regular parade on sites like Gizmodo, Gizmag, Engadget and the rest, is probably not going to register with them. And that’s really the point. Everyone has expectations based on some pretty unfriendly processes.

To round things off, I just got off the phone with someone from MCP Metalspecialties. Turns out they’ve not sold a single SLM machine in the U.S. and appear to be having trouble getting potential buyers past the sticker shock. They don’t even have a machine at their office that I could see. What a huge bummer. I was hoping that the advantages of the process would help drive adoption. Guess I’m hoping for too much.