{"id":867,"date":"2006-04-20T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2006-05-01T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T15:56:11","slug":"metal-and-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Metal and Glue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a rapid-prototyping kind of day it seems. For starters an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/004337.html\" target=\"blank\">entry I wrote for WorldChanging has been posted (Link)<\/a>. I don&#8217;t doubt some readers will wonder about the subject (btw, the title isn&#8217;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&#8217;s really the point. Everyone has expectations based on some pretty unfriendly processes.<\/p>\n<p>To round things off, I just got off the phone with someone from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcp-group.com\/rpt\/rpttslm.html\" target=\"blank\">MCP Metalspecialties<\/a>. Turns out they&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;m hoping for too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a rapid-prototyping kind of day it seems. For starters an entry I wrote for WorldChanging has been posted (Link). I don&#8217;t doubt some readers will wonder about the subject (btw, the title isn&#8217;t mine). The idea of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}