plastic and lazers!
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- 23kon
remember there was a video posted - probably on newstoday. it was a video of plastic furniture being made - emerging from a pool of liquid plastic?
it was timelapse photography sequenced together. what happens was there was a pool of liquid plastic and a lazer fired at the surface of the liquid plastic - setting the plastic where it hit. a vaccum would then pull this up like half a millimeter then the lazer would do the same for the next layer.
this would go on and on for each mm until the thing was complete.well today at work i was asked to take some photos of a working scale model of a valve used in oilrigs. each part of this had been created seperately then pieced together.
they just feed a car drawing into the machine then this pops out in bits at the other end (not as EASY as that).
this thing is SOOOOO impressive!unfortunately i cant show the actual valve parts (the most amazing part) but i can show you the outer casing.
you can see the pattern the lazer was fired.
- philipdrumman0
Laser cat sees where you're going with this.
- detritus0
I can't recall exactly where I saw it, but last week I saw an image sequence of someone CNC-milling a 9mm gun casing out of a solid block of metal. We live in a pretty interesting world where someone could feasibly download the schematics to a weapon, and have it made in a few hours.
Fascinating shit though, all this computer-aided manufacture - i have a hard time projecting the implications of the next IT revolution, where people can 'DTP' physical objects in the real world.
- MashPotatoesJohnson0
its called rapid prototyping.
- tasty0
Plazers
- 23kon0
im just absolutely blown away by this thing.
hopefully il be able to show it all in the future, the outer casing is all grey but all the components inside are primary and secondary colours.
will need to wait till the client gets their patents or whatever.