You can find a decent DIY open source 3D printers out there, easily , and u can get them with reasonable price , but the real state of the art 3D printers are found in research labs and high tech factories for prototyping and testing .
The technology is awesome,more materials and techniques are used , and its getting better by the day , i hope in the near future it will be more accessible and efficient
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Do you think eventually we will all have a 3d printer at home
At some point, sure. In the coming decade? I don't think so. There's no real need for it at the moment. And while I can imagine it being fun to use it, I think I'd personally use it a couple of times and then never look at it again.
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3d printing nowadays is kinda like what videophones were in the 80's, I'm probably gonna skip it and wait for them to finally make replicators a real thing.
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Hmm, I do remember some advertisements for HP printers and they do look cool, but I don't hear much about them anymore. Hopefully technology can advance enough to the point that every family could own a 3D printer.
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3D home printing it's just a first step, next step will be molecular printing, when waste will be disassembled to atoms and reassembled in new items like food, materials and other.
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Consumables are way too expensive, it is not feasible to use a 3D printer at this time.
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As for every "new technology" it's very expensive at the beginning, almost no one can afford it, only big companies (I find it strange and awesome that they're printing whole houses, airplanes, artificial teeth :P). Someday it will be more mature and less expensive, so almost everyone can use it. Well, I'd totally have one, to print my own airplane ;)
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A few years ago media went on how this is a big revolution, and everyone will have one, you can print your own shoes, food etc etc.
Offcourse the price is expensive, kinda the same as VR (and therefor also not catching on), but so was any piece of computer equipment in the nineties at first until it became cheap enough for normal consumers.
If you can print out your shoes f,e and other stuff, might be that certain businesses will go out of business, because they are no longer needed. I wonder if some of those big companies even hold that technology back.
Do you think eventually we will all have a 3d printer at home (and if it's really a "big" revolution)? Would you miss it if it doesn't?
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