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Texrat 2009-09-30 21:26
Ooo shiny!
 
NASA gets back to being cool:

http://gizmodo.com/5370586/nasa-can-...electron-beams

Texrat 2009-09-30 21:53
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
You've been drinking the gizmodo-basher Kool Aid. :p

danramos 2009-09-30 21:58
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 337066)
You've been drinking the gizmodo-basher Kool Aid. :p
Don't you mean Tang, in this case?

qole 2009-09-30 22:11
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by From the article
With EBF3 you can build up the same part using only 350 pounds of titanium and machine away just 50 pounds to get the part into its final configuration.
So this thing isn't yet a 3-D printer, you still have to machine away 14% of the material to get it to its final form... Cool, but somehow disappointing...

ysss 2009-09-30 22:43
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Ooo this is huge...

It can cut all sorts of indirect costs in the manufacturing lines it's implemented on.

overfloat 2009-10-01 01:20
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Where is my replicator?

pokey 2009-10-02 12:44
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Did you guys read the original article?

...Fiber optic cables embeded in solid metal forms... metal and alloy matrices...

Just imagine how mechanical and structural engineering will change when the John Brittens of the world get their hands on this. This is big. Perhaps not as big as CNC in general, but I'd put it up there with water cutting, or tig welding. Actually, it seems like an evolution of robotic tig anyway.

ColdFusion 2009-10-02 13:05
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

heavyt 2009-10-02 14:46
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Long way from the days of cloth and dope wings.

Texrat 2009-10-02 17:19
Re: Ooo shiny!
 
Oh, thanks heavyt-- it had been so long since I built authentic models I had forgotten the smell of dope. Now it comes back. Ick.

[imagine sick emoticon here]


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