3D Printer
Description
How do you build dozens of homes while sitting in a lawn chair sipping tea? 3D printers, that's how.
3D printers are powerful pieces of modern technology that are revolutionizing numerous industries from manufacturing and prototyping to construction, art, recycling, and more! 3D printers utilize a process known as 'additive manufacturing' where materials are deposited in layer after layer, one on top of the other, to form large 3D objects. While 3D printing hobbyists continue to push the boundaries of plastic figurine for paper weights on desks, modern industrial-scale 3D printers are printing ever more grand and complex objects including wood, metal, plastic, and other materials.
If you want to live in a 3D printed house, you could wait for a miraculous future full of science fiction technologies, or you could simply go today and spend anywhere from $1,000 to >$700,000 in one of the growing number of 3D printed communities across the USA.
A Future with 3D Printing: By one or two decades from now, the cost and material benefits of 3D printing means that 3D printers may have made your home whether you moved to a specialized community or not. And the art on your walls. And the clothes you are wearing that fit your body specifically. And the burger that you are eating. And yes, even the figurine paper weight you have one your desk.
External
A Special Thanks to our partner Adaptive 3D Technologies for working with BEST Robotics and Polycraft World to make the 3D Printing Challenge.
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