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the printing press one of the greatest inventions of all time allowed for easy

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and Rapid printing of books and information which spread literacy and

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knowledge across the world the printing press revolutionized the spread of

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information but now a new method of printing called 3D printing is poised to

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revolutionize manufacturing the way it works is actually very simple using a 3D

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model as a guide a moving 3D printer head lays down a layer of material that

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has a certain amount of thickness to it then it does it again and again putting

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down one layer at a time until finally the completed model has been created

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literally from the ground up one slice at a time any complex object that cannot

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support its own weight during printing is printed along with some kind of

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scaffolding which can be easily removed or washed away once the object is

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completely printed 3D printing can be done with all sorts of materials

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different kinds of plastic metal Sandstone ceramic concrete wood and more

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and here is an example this is a Lego Technic comp ible 32 to gear you see I

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like to build robots in my spare time and while I have a lot of parts there

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are some very useful pieces that simply don't exist so 3D printing to the rescue

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once I knew what I wanted to make I needed to decide on some 3D modeling

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software to use there are a ton of options but I ended up using Google

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SketchUp which is easy to learn and use for a really powerful 3D program I would

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recommend blender but it does have a very steep learning curve once I

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finished making my 3D mod model I needed to figure out how I was going to print

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it you can buy or even build your own 3D printer but because the technology is

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still pretty new it's probably more worthwhile for most people to use a 3D

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printing service coincidentally as I was writing this episode a company called

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shapeways contacted us and offered to do some 3D printing for us I agreed and

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uploaded my exported STL files to their server I chose which pieces colors and

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what kind of material I wanted I went with strong and flexible plastic I was

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also pretty surprised to see that they can print in 14 karat gold that is one

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expensive gear a few weeks later I got a package in the mail containing all of my

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pieces as you can see the plastic is a lot different from real Lego it's rough

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and kind of chalky unless you get the polished stuff a lot of the pieces I

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designed are a bit too tight but they still fit with real Lego overall I'm

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very pleased with the results and I'll probably continue to design and print

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more pieces in the future if you'd like to print any of the pieces I've designed

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you can follow the link in the video description but being able to print

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little plastic gears is just the beginning for 3D printing imagine 3D

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printing an entire product from scratch does that remind you of anything you

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know like the replicators from Star Trek perhaps computer te Earl gry

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hot there you go okay so we probably

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won't be able to print out a new toaster or a cup of tea anytime soon but it's

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already possible to 3D print custom Prosthetics clothing food jewelry guns

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drugs even living skin cartilage and Bone scientists are currently working on

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ways to print entire organs like kidneys and livers and even with 3D printing in

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its infancy there are already many legal concerns about what people can do with

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3D printing technology easy homade weapon manufacturing and patent and

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copyright infringement among them keep an eye on this because it's going to be

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an interesting couple of decades something else to keep your eyes on

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