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I don’t recall if I’d previously read about this or not, but I’d not seen it: the Fab@Home additive-process, rapid prototyping device (Link)<\/a>, here shown creating a watch strap. It’s a nice resource site with plenty of information and apparently plenty more to come. I’ve not done much more than skim through the site but it’s a link I’ll be visiting with some regularity.<\/p>\n Besides the device itself, of interest to me both on the Fab@Home site and<\/em> on the RepRap blog which alerted me to it a couple of days ago (Link)<\/a> are discussions about 3D fab catalogues. There is a “Printables” library (Link)<\/a> on the Fab@Home wiki and a new, anticipatory centralized location for RepRap parts (Link)<\/a> that seems… ambitious. I’ll be very interested to see the first fruits.<\/p>\n Probably goes without saying that I’ve been thinking about just such things for quite some time. Recently I told someone how an immersive 3D catalog might be accomplished (I’ve been grinding on how to do it for years – since I first started modding Quake 3 – but I’ve always run into content theft issues). Maybe they or someone else will get something like it up and running. It’d be a trip to have that weapons warehouse scene from “The Matrix<\/a>” play out in a virtual world.<\/p>\n {Image source: Fab@Home}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t recall if I’d previously read about this or not, but I’d not seen it: the Fab@Home additive-process, rapid prototyping device (Link), here shown creating a watch strap. It’s a nice resource site with plenty of information and apparently … Continue reading