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3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production | Autopia | Wired.com

3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production | Autopia | Wired.com | WEBOLUTION! | Scoop.it

Kor and his team built the three-wheel, two-passenger vehicle at RedEye, an on-demand 3-D printing facility. The printers he uses create ABS plastic via Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). The printer sprays molten polymer to build the chassis layer by microscopic layer until it arrives at the complete object. The machines are so automated that the building process they perform is known as “lights out” construction, meaning Kor uploads the design for a bumper, walk away, shut off the lights and leaves. A few hundred hours later, he’s got a bumper. The whole car – which is about 10 feet long – takes about 2,500 hours.


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HelloSlide - Bring your slides to life

HelloSlide - Bring your slides to life | WEBOLUTION! | Scoop.it
Lucy Georges's comment, February 18, 2012 1:51 AM
Text-to-speech has come a long way, and this tool illustrates how even intonation is beginning to be improved. However, it still seems too robotic to me.