hackszine.com - 9/2/2008
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Gene Hacker created a 3D printer out of LEGO. It's like a lo-rez reprap that operates in polar coordinates instead of the more familiar cartesian system. This is still very alpha and his demos show some promising 3D blobs of frosting. With that in mind, however, most of the basic ...
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Spinning LEGOs Produce 3-D Blobs
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... a 3-D printer made out of LEGO bricks. It’s still in its infancy of development but is more than capable of rendering 3-D blobs of frosting. Unlike regular Cartesian system printers, the one Gene built operates in polar coordinates, in other words, a circular motion of printing. When asked why he didn’t build a Cartesian system printer (similar to the LEGO scanner ), he replied,“I didn’t have enough LEGOs to build a Cartesian printer.” Now, that’s funny. Link [ via ]
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