On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 3:53:11 PM UTC-5, Cappeca wrote:
> Em sexta-feira, 3 de julho de 2015 21:14:25 UTC-3, Zobovor escreveu:
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> > For one, 3D printed objects don't have the same tensile strength as molded plastic parts. They're printed in layers and the bond between the layers is only so great. They wouldn't be appropriate for some types of transformations.
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> Considering how modern plastic feels cheap on current Transformers, I don't think it would be such a stretch.
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> I've been to two significant business events this year. One was in Las Vegas in february, sponsored by IBM. There was this small company at the hall, and they had this nice 3d printer making keychains for the crowd. The end result was sturdy! The whole machine looked like a teleporter, it was awesome. I asked about price and availability (around $2000, in stock) and it seemed pretty affordable for a new technology. I mean, I come from a time where stuff like this would cost $200,000 and only Nasa had one or two.
Some of the retail ones here are $500, and for $135 you can buy a circuit board and a file that would let you make that printer print all the parts for a second printer. The printed things I've seen frequently still has line, and would need to be sanded down and refinished.
The Microsoft Store here has a Maker-Bot display occasionally. I say occasionally because they have had to repair it four times in six months, and it still will sometimes just start randomly laying down plastic outside of the design instructions.
>Now I can bring a teleporter home for the cost of my own plane ticket? I mean, sure it's expensive, but it's not expensive *enough*, considering how new this is. It's cheaper than a good gaming PC.
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I can max out a gaming PC for around $1400 now with an i7 extreme 6 core processor, gaming tower, board, 1200W power supply, 16GB ddr3, PC prices are dropping rapidly (unless you pay full retail, which is silly)
> The second event I've been to was here in Sao Paulo, sponsored by HSM. Big names talking about how Google is trying to change some business models from "having" stuff to "using" stuff, turning product into service. That's already happening.
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> 3d printers capture my imagination, because of it's potential to fill our necessity for self-gratification almost instantly. I have to wait 30~45 days for my toys to come from China - imagine taking 10 hours to print recently released molds! Downloading a movie also takes time, but it might be quicker than going to a store looking for the media and not finding it. I don't own the stuff on Netflix, but I can watch it as long as it's there. How about a wave of available molds for a short period of time? Color coded or customized, you choose. I don't think it's suitable as it is for our current business model, but in 15 years it might become a reality:
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You overestimate people's ability to assemble things I think. If you don't like simple molds now, wait until you have to put it together yourself. Every part will have to be large to pass choking standards, gone will be spring loaded gimmicks and launchers. 3rd party will have to make add-on files for every mold to get the stuff we have now, and you would still have to paint everything yourself.
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> Zob's thoughts on Tele-Masters Bumblebee
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> So now Hasbro is releasing molds for 3d printers, and I was lucky to find a mold card for G1 Bumblebee at my local walmart. I'll be honest, I haven't watched this new cartoon yet - they're trying to revamp the -masters thing using the printer gimmick as teleporters while treating the concept completely wrong. But since they're also releasing the G1 characters in this new format, I had to buy one to try it out. My own 3d printer is an old HP model from 2026, but the cards are backwards compatible, so no big deal. The card is valid for 5 days, so I can print as many Bumblebees as I want. Hasbro has once again dropped the ball on the colors, since the final product is more gold than yellow, and it's a bit different from the TV version. I captured some screenshots from the cartoon and decomposed the image, so the code for the yellow shade that most closely resembles the cartoon is #543537245672. The card is a bit expensive at $2 because you can print both Cliffjumper and Bumblebee from it, since Hasbro STILL thinks one is a straight repaint of the other. There's a third party company releasing a mold card patch to fix the issue and making it an actual Cliffjumper, but the problem is that it overwrites Bumblebee information and invalidates the card for recycling with the Collectors Club. The scale is also wrong, but you can fix it by hacking the Z factor on the card. Good thing these cards are not blindpacked like the GIJoes.
I can't stop laughing at how accurate all of this is. Add in a ridiculous model number for the printer (like K3011aMTL or something) and I'd totally believe it.