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[theweaselking]

HOME-BUILT 3D printer: Because hot air and sugar are cheaper than lasers and nylon powder.

Resolution sucks, but who cares? CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY!

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[wyatt1048.livejournal.com]

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When they started with the hot air gun, I thought it was just for toast, but it became SO MUCH MORE AWESOME.

[zibacco.livejournal.com]

That's pretty freakin' cool.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Sweeeet!

Sorry. Really.

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

Please excuse me while I drool

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

I wonder if a much much finer one could be made to use powdered sugar?

I guess that there's no reason why not (if everything was to scale) except that the product would be, oh, an inch long?

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

If you're willing to live with really long print times, you could probably make one with fairly fine res and powdered sugar even on that large scale. It'd also be a lot more expensive, though, because you really need high-accuracy metal frames and more accurate steppers and all that, and those aren't cheap in large-scale. Something with fairly fine res and up to 6-12 inches you could probably still do with mostly salvage components, like old printer/plotter parts.