HOLY SHIT! YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS!? This means we will never get to have something like this in our homes. Think about it. No corporation is going to let you have one of these. If this shit go down to the nano scale then we could make anything we want with just using basic resources! That would mean we wouldn't need them greedy wealthy people!
hmm... with the shredder option we are getting closer to something like the startrek replicator, at least for stationary items.. didn't make magazine also have cheap 3D printer?
what if people produced weapons? if every person had that kind of production in a household, production would no longer be controlled by corporations or governments, and since no training would be needed and the best design could be shared its seems a little dangerous...
@capitalcomunist There are thousands of freely available websites and books on the internet all which tell people how to make bombs, guns, poisons and other potential dangerous weapons that could be used for murder, and even domestic terrorism.
Last time I checked, not many people care about that stuff.
@capitalcomunist Whats really dangerous is a society that forces people to compete against each other for survival. If people where all considered equal, as well as given access to everything they need there would be no need for weapons. Of course the only way a society like this would work is if we discontinued the use of money, got rid of our archaic governmental structures, and used scientific methods to reach decisions with the sole goal of human and environmental betterment.
Its plastic, you would have a better chance killing someone with a civil war musket then a plastic gun. The best someone could do with this is a plastic knife and I have a whole set of metal ones in my kitchen.
mining would be so easy with something like this. you just dump a bot the and gather the bots later when they have exhausted the thing mined. and if your to lazy to do that you make a food chain when bots eat bots untill there is only one bot then tell it to move to the market to be sold.
Are you ready for me BABY! Yeah,let's do it! I'm gonna make sweet love to you tonite!
Aw SHIT! outta condoms,
What to do? What to do?
Hold on baby! I got an idea. I'll just stick my dick in this machine I built from the Internet. Now lets see. Um. Yeah. Just type up a quicky condom design on the ole computer, throw in some plastic bottles,just stick my dick in about here and press the button. Ah yes, YES. Quite marvelous and, WAIT! What the FUCK! DAMN This shit is HOT AS HELL! Oh the PAIN!
This is awesome. As I grow up, thanks to these videos, I become more and more aware of the things that I once wished were reality, are BECOMING reality.
I can't wait for this to be refined. I'd print things out like little boxes and stuff and be totally satisfied with it since it's my own design. Finally, no more of those "GOD DAMMIT PEOPLE, DO YOUR JOB!" moments.
I can imagine all huge conglomerates falling over each other to buy out the patents for this technology so no one anywhere gets to use it.
If this tech became commonplace it would spell the end for capitalism.
They are already making 3D printers which can create items made from multiple elements. In 50 years, you will literally be able to print any item. It will be on a pay to print basis because the corporations will already own the patents :)
@Reijerkolle Where do you see anything even hinting towards that in my comment? I said it is present, giving you the reality as your previous statement was naive about reality.
Your only striving towards what politicians tell you, and what they are striving towards is their best interest, their career etc. In the end, politicians are just humans, as anyone else with a different career, they put their pants on 1 leg at a time.
You can only judge a man by his actions, not words.
@PotInApot In context to what i was saying, and the fact that you were arguing against me even though im on your side. yes it hinted towards that. Read what the argument was about before you assume shit.
this is awsome, when this becomes common use in homes the next problem we will have is hardware piracy.
3d printers are the future they can do so much.
download and print a new computer.
play warhammer for cheap.
most house hold items will be printed, once the tech gets better and is able to do different materials and have more accuacy this will take off and it will get ppl into 3d modeling alot more. i assume you can use say 3d studio max to model something then print that out.
Can we see how we could one day most internet sales could be not much more than digital blueprints and you could print your order right there at your house.
Ok You can make one of these for about 800 dollars in parts not this one but similar to it. Look it up! Your very own home made CNC machine. But the next step to use your own bottles would be cool.
Totally fucking awesome ^.^ Granted it's just progression in already existing technology and it's not quite to the place we all hope it will one day be, but it is an indicator that we're getting there pretty fast! Woot, this century is going to pwn!
I'm really, really interested in these 3d printers. Not sure why, they make me giddy. Some immature part of my brain believes they're going to become magic machines that make anything you want.
That's not the point. Obviously you didn't read it. It is basically the exponential rise of risk in technology once the technology becomes self-replicating. And that risk threatens machines just as much as biological entities.
brilliant, people can recycle their own plastic and make their own stuff, when that comes out, i want one (although i'm pretty sure i would rather have a professional make my electrical circuits, unless the machine can actually make good ones, but that would probably be expensive). Cool idea though.
@EBAP011 for prototyping : you dont want a manufacturer to produce single board, very expensive : printing circuit boards would be a great way to prototype before ordering the manufactured quantity.
Very innovative, but I feel like that opens up new doors for piracy. Would that start a revolution of illegally downloaded tangible objects? People would just go to the store to buy metal "ink" and download loads of blueprints to steal people's products.
this would be great for auto parts. order the parts online, and pick it up at the nearest store. no waiting , no shipping charges, a smaller carbon footprint. I think it would be commercialized first, then used more in the home. I can see this in every home. It is a time saver, and an energy saver.
Well no there would still have to be a finite number of possible starting materials. You're not going to say mill a shock absorber spring out of a cubic piece of steel
There's enough replicators like this available already that there's a website called Thingiverse that's like a photo or file sharing website, but it's for sharing object files for printing on these printers.
WTF! It can produce 1/2 of its own parts. HOW IS THAT SELF-REPLICATING!! It would have to make 100% of its own parts AND assemble them. I just invented a fart that smells like roses! Well if roses smelled like farts that is. Same-same right? New Science is going down hill FAST!
"WTF! It can produce 1/2 of its own parts. HOW IS THAT SELF-REPLICATING!! It would have to make 100% of its own parts AND assemble them"
Not necessarily. All the alloy rods, and fasteners, etc, are already so common and relatively inexpensive it would be counter-productive to manufacture those from scratch.
Though you're correct, it is a little bit of a stretch to term it self replicating.
"All the alloy rods, and fasteners, etc, are already so common and relatively inexpensive it would be counter-productive to manufacture those from scratch."
True, but it is still not self-replicating if it can't make them. MAYBE if it was a robot that could go to the story and buy the parts itself, take them home and assemble another robot it could be considered self-replicating in a fashion.
@martiangrundy: All self-replicating mechanisms known today have some kind of reliance on infrastructure or another host. That includes self replicating computer programs and biological systems. In all self-replicating systems, its a question of how much to leverage off of the "host" or infrastructure to help you achieve self replication. There is no truly binary notion of self-replicating or not, its a question of degree; and Rep Rap is 50%.
@martiangrundy No, it does not need to replicate 100%. It needs to replicate just enough to enable the new machine to "acquire" the rest of the parts elsewhere and then have full functionality to replicate another machine with just enough....
WTF! It can produce 1/2 of its own parts. HOW IS THAT SELF-REPLICATING!! It would have to make 100% of its own parts AND assemble them. I just invented a fart that smells like roses! Well if roses smelled like farts that is. Same-same right? New Science is going down hill FAST!
cool well soon be able to replicate food for the poor and have new clothes every day! with 0 enviromental impact because it can all be recycled!! exept for the food lol
@MrStartrekepisodes good point, that would be awesome, but then the problem would probably be shifted to producing plastic of sufficient quality from the dump plastic
The last explanation simply sums up why this technology could be revolutionary to the individual. Simply amazing, and slightly scary at the same time. ^_~
This can change whole economies. WOW, really, really great. I thought that the makerbot cupcake was cool, and it is, but this is even cooler. Power to the people.
that is the coolest "printer" ever, I remember when I was a little kid in the 90s and I had thoughts of "wouldn't that be cool if you had a printer that could print stuff like lego" lol. Awesome to see such technology is neaaarly common-place
@dravarian26 Only if we can find a replacement for oil before it runs out, if we can avoid running out of water, if we can avoid a World War 3, avoid Nuclear War, and avoid ecological disasters which would prevent farming from continuing (like honey bees dying out, or that running out of water)
This not new stuff....Check out rapid prototyping machine (SLA). I've been using it for years. There are also 3D scanner that has been used in industries where you can pretty much scan a whole car and not having to design it in computer
@Charlymaumushi: Lol! That's pretty damn lazy. :) Though technically you'd probably have to clean the plastic in order to recycle it, so I am not sure you are coming out ahead ...
It can't make coffee. :-(
dastan666 2 months ago
it looks like it is only using plastic right now....however it is cool
clnmyjts 5 months ago
I would invest in this design.
mrmaciejm 5 months ago
HOLY SHIT! YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS!? This means we will never get to have something like this in our homes. Think about it. No corporation is going to let you have one of these. If this shit go down to the nano scale then we could make anything we want with just using basic resources! That would mean we wouldn't need them greedy wealthy people!
DeadHappyFilm 5 months ago
They can probably print nuts too
shadywalker 9 months ago
Check out Bioprinters.. they are nuts..
shadywalker 9 months ago
This is the future right here.
NsaneNtheNbrane 9 months ago
Sell this to rapists and pedophiles. They'll love it and it'll decrease the number of sexual crimes.
drrobertoboogie97 9 months ago
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@drrobertoboogie97 To decrease the number of sexual crimes it would be enough to legalize prostitution and we could do that now.
In the future rapists and pedophiles will become obsolete thanks to sex robots :)
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erasmusso 6 months ago
i want one of these.
coldarc 11 months ago
hmm... with the shredder option we are getting closer to something like the startrek replicator, at least for stationary items.. didn't make magazine also have cheap 3D printer?
thrawn60 11 months ago
what if people produced weapons? if every person had that kind of production in a household, production would no longer be controlled by corporations or governments, and since no training would be needed and the best design could be shared its seems a little dangerous...
capitalcomunist 1 year ago
@capitalcomunist Take up a stick and it could be used as a weapon too. Or use a golf club as a well club.
Point is there is not a real lack of weapons now either. This would make no difference in the end from a criminal view.
Dasmaster1 11 months ago
@capitalcomunist There are thousands of freely available websites and books on the internet all which tell people how to make bombs, guns, poisons and other potential dangerous weapons that could be used for murder, and even domestic terrorism.
Last time I checked, not many people care about that stuff.
ELREndLondonRule 11 months ago
@capitalcomunist lol sure lets make a gun out of weak plastic have fun with that.
DemonAMVs 8 months ago
@capitalcomunist Whats really dangerous is a society that forces people to compete against each other for survival. If people where all considered equal, as well as given access to everything they need there would be no need for weapons. Of course the only way a society like this would work is if we discontinued the use of money, got rid of our archaic governmental structures, and used scientific methods to reach decisions with the sole goal of human and environmental betterment.
IHighLikePlane 8 months ago
@capitalcomunist
Its plastic, you would have a better chance killing someone with a civil war musket then a plastic gun. The best someone could do with this is a plastic knife and I have a whole set of metal ones in my kitchen.
LucianUramu 7 months ago
My penis is a self replicating machine.
tucense 1 year ago
zeitgeist 3 !!
twistedbass15 1 year ago
I would be great if this tech gets throught the average person...
The powers that be would not like the idea....
It would cost alot of jobs and they would lose their grip on power....
SlashDotDash121 1 year ago
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schweizertoblerone 1 year ago
machines making machines! utter madness!!
schweizertoblerone 1 year ago
mining would be so easy with something like this. you just dump a bot the and gather the bots later when they have exhausted the thing mined. and if your to lazy to do that you make a food chain when bots eat bots untill there is only one bot then tell it to move to the market to be sold.
08326924 1 year ago
yeah and when the world is overrun with these we can make a preadotor repicator to eat all the old replicators
08326924 1 year ago
i want to make the worlds largest plastic ball and then i am going to cut up a door and go inside and start rolling about into stuff
123456789kamran 1 year ago
something tells me, in a couple years every mcdonalds kitchen is going to be reduced to such a printer and a microwave oven....
"would you like your meat-imitation to be printed out in the shape of justin biebers head?"
liquidminds 1 year ago
1) Snap shot porn video's
2) Replicate from video in Auto CAD
3) Print new date
4) Not hear complaining :D
It was a potential WIN until I realized my plastic bitch can't make me a sammich.
SecondClassyCitizen 1 year ago
And thats how the machines take over.
Igotnogod 1 year ago
Are you ready for me BABY! Yeah,let's do it! I'm gonna make sweet love to you tonite!
Aw SHIT! outta condoms,
What to do? What to do?
Hold on baby! I got an idea. I'll just stick my dick in this machine I built from the Internet. Now lets see. Um. Yeah. Just type up a quicky condom design on the ole computer, throw in some plastic bottles,just stick my dick in about here and press the button. Ah yes, YES. Quite marvelous and, WAIT! What the FUCK! DAMN This shit is HOT AS HELL! Oh the PAIN!
creaturebotman 1 year ago
cool shoes. i would love it if my mum gave me those to wear.
CharlotteFromNZ 1 year ago
Dildo? :3
yeahyousaidit 1 year ago
I creamed when he talked about printing circuits.
ToothpickMcBrainy 1 year ago
This is awesome. As I grow up, thanks to these videos, I become more and more aware of the things that I once wished were reality, are BECOMING reality.
I can't wait for this to be refined. I'd print things out like little boxes and stuff and be totally satisfied with it since it's my own design. Finally, no more of those "GOD DAMMIT PEOPLE, DO YOUR JOB!" moments.
ekoukano 1 year ago
id design a vagina and print it out
TokeHuge 1 year ago
We need one that do 3-D printing of aluminum or copper for metal parts and wiring.
CrossoverManiac 1 year ago
ITS THE REPLICATORS!
RavenWarrior123 1 year ago
If we keep going on like this, wer'e gonna have a stargate similar replicator problem in a few thousand years...
lents12 1 year ago
lets see it make an entire copy of itself.
iHeartElectricalEng 1 year ago
Half is not "self-replicating."
CatapultYourMom 1 year ago
Yet another step to make the human race obsolete.
Airandius 1 year ago
I hope that rep rap machine can design a machine to recycle all the waste plastic.
TheImperar 1 year ago
@TheImperar It can't but you can, and use the rep rap to make it.
CrazyMonkey124 1 year ago
this takes internet piracy to a whole new level
combatplayer 1 year ago 7
I can imagine all huge conglomerates falling over each other to buy out the patents for this technology so no one anywhere gets to use it.
If this tech became commonplace it would spell the end for capitalism.
They are already making 3D printers which can create items made from multiple elements. In 50 years, you will literally be able to print any item. It will be on a pay to print basis because the corporations will already own the patents :)
karadan100 1 year ago
Am I dreaming?? But I dont think government will approve this. This can take down lots of industries.
darkangel2327 1 year ago 2
@darkangel2327 wut kind of fascist society is your mind thinking in? Government and cooperate industries should never be tied together
Reijerkolle 1 year ago 2
@Reijerkolle And religion.
CrazyMonkey124 1 year ago
@Reijerkolle Have you heard of the word Corruption? Yea, it happens alot, everyday, everywhere and that is nothing but reality
PotInApot 1 year ago
@PotInApot So we should strive for corruption just because its present. Good point, dude.
Reijerkolle 1 year ago
@Reijerkolle Where do you see anything even hinting towards that in my comment? I said it is present, giving you the reality as your previous statement was naive about reality.
Your only striving towards what politicians tell you, and what they are striving towards is their best interest, their career etc. In the end, politicians are just humans, as anyone else with a different career, they put their pants on 1 leg at a time.
You can only judge a man by his actions, not words.
PotInApot 1 year ago
@PotInApot In context to what i was saying, and the fact that you were arguing against me even though im on your side. yes it hinted towards that. Read what the argument was about before you assume shit.
Reijerkolle 1 year ago
awesome stuff. this will be a pioneer machine for many awesome predecessor's to come. these guys are on the right track.
techsta72 1 year ago
Open source rules!
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mate2000 1 year ago
@mate2000
well, I think it's pretty close, keep in mind that all of the things that are first of their kind tend to be flawed in many ways
re619 1 year ago
@mate2000 I think you should get one... make a copy of yourself, and go fuck yourself.
damotbh 1 year ago 3
@damotbh haha, right, but at your age you shouldn't use the F word, did't mommy teach you that?
mate2000 1 year ago
@mate2000 I think it was more of the case you can feed it several designs to build at once.
minesajd 1 year ago
So, this is like the first asexual robot?
Erich745 1 year ago
@Erich745
ALL robots are asexual, seeing as how no machine on earth has a defined sex (as we know it)(... a sex, I mean)
re619 1 year ago
this is awsome, when this becomes common use in homes the next problem we will have is hardware piracy.
3d printers are the future they can do so much.
download and print a new computer.
play warhammer for cheap.
most house hold items will be printed, once the tech gets better and is able to do different materials and have more accuacy this will take off and it will get ppl into 3d modeling alot more. i assume you can use say 3d studio max to model something then print that out.
knivesron 1 year ago
This is old.. Nothing new about it.. you can buy one for 750$ at makerbot.com
akib89 1 year ago
Academic projects > Money-hungry bastards.
Athaeus 1 year ago
if this goes further.. we will be able to make a gun and print it out? one that actually works ? WHEN the machine is made that good.
Resisted1337 1 year ago
@Resisted1337 Haha, yes, the terror of a plastic gun.
Aussiemoo 1 year ago
@Aussiemoo it will shoot marshmallow bullets
realoldguy1969 1 year ago
Can we see how we could one day most internet sales could be not much more than digital blueprints and you could print your order right there at your house.
jessemparker 1 year ago
Ok You can make one of these for about 800 dollars in parts not this one but similar to it. Look it up! Your very own home made CNC machine. But the next step to use your own bottles would be cool.
rabbitsib 1 year ago
The end of capitalism as we know it
mugin11223344 1 year ago
ha ha buy one and make three for your friends
Madmonkeythegreat 1 year ago
Where can I get one lol
stumpythedestoyer 1 year ago
Finally women can make bigger dildos at home!
"Honey, could bring home like 300 gallons of milk tonight?"
GodlessGreg 1 year ago 26
more plastic shit to dump in the ocean. thanks science.
trainluvr 1 year ago
Shredding milk bottles for feed stock material? That's really closing the loop on recycling. Desktop recycling. Desktop manufacturing.
Seriously, I would like to have a cheap desktop stereolithography printer so I could make my own prototypes.
Liberty4Ever 1 year ago
Hopefully I'm going to that university in October :D
GrimKage 1 year ago
Very cool. Thank you prfughes.
DeathNeedsTime 1 year ago
Slick!
the12packweb 1 year ago
It's gonna make an army of clones and take over society.
jstnhnh 1 year ago
Who voted this video with a thumbs down??? Really?
What are you a fuckin' moron? SMH. Trolls.
Great video. Great concept.
Krumbz2003 1 year ago
WTF? This isn't a self-replicating machine by any stretch of the imagination.
UncleKennybobs 1 year ago
@UncleKennybobs it can make 50% of its own parts, still pretty impressive.
egokick 1 year ago
For electrical parts, why not create indents in it by, well, not filling in parts, then simply filling in the space with metallic ink? >>
Tullidar1 1 year ago
i hope they make one that can print with steel. That would be the future.
sgohara 1 year ago
Totally fucking awesome ^.^ Granted it's just progression in already existing technology and it's not quite to the place we all hope it will one day be, but it is an indicator that we're getting there pretty fast! Woot, this century is going to pwn!
Truthiness231 1 year ago
Simply amazing...
MITHWORLD1 1 year ago
Woohoo! Von Neumann machines ....they're coming!
If you wanna know more about self-replicating machines, read 2001 / 2010 Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke. Awesome stuff.
Destro7000 1 year ago
I'm really, really interested in these 3d printers. Not sure why, they make me giddy. Some immature part of my brain believes they're going to become magic machines that make anything you want.
EGarrett01 1 year ago
You all need to read Bill Joy (Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems), who wrote the article "Why the future doesn't need us". It is mandatory!
trakkaton 1 year ago
@trakkaton Well we can be machines by then to...
themax37 1 year ago
@themax37
That's not the point. Obviously you didn't read it. It is basically the exponential rise of risk in technology once the technology becomes self-replicating. And that risk threatens machines just as much as biological entities.
trakkaton 1 year ago
id print out a pocket pussy...
mkdray224 1 year ago
Harry potter?
FacelessDeviant 1 year ago
I will print a Ferrari. :D
Zeesarh 1 year ago
me too!
mkdray224 1 year ago
i'd print out an ipad! lol
Slance1Himself 1 year ago
shit, i lost my prosthetic leg. oh well. let's just print a new one.
StringsCrusader 1 year ago 56
@StringsCrusader pretty much
chaz76vette 1 year ago
i want to use it to print out fishing lures :)
quosmo1 1 year ago
Really cool.
metainfinity 1 year ago
This is superb!
DrakeMagnum 1 year ago
pretty f'in sweet...
stonedcommander 1 year ago
brilliant, people can recycle their own plastic and make their own stuff, when that comes out, i want one (although i'm pretty sure i would rather have a professional make my electrical circuits, unless the machine can actually make good ones, but that would probably be expensive). Cool idea though.
EBAP011 1 year ago
@EBAP011 for prototyping : you dont want a manufacturer to produce single board, very expensive : printing circuit boards would be a great way to prototype before ordering the manufactured quantity.
quosmo1 1 year ago
makerbot has already produce a machine that you can buy
madnessdexter 1 year ago
Very innovative, but I feel like that opens up new doors for piracy. Would that start a revolution of illegally downloaded tangible objects? People would just go to the store to buy metal "ink" and download loads of blueprints to steal people's products.
TomLento 1 year ago
new printer for "fuck-machines"... They'll create their own pussies
gastonytHQ 1 year ago
fantastic!!!!
saykarpaudel 1 year ago
The first mechanized dawkensian replicatior. The robotcalypse is at hand!
If you want a vision of the future imagine a man being kicked in the head with an iron boot, forever!
LeopardFrogPilboxhat 1 year ago
i want one
drftme 1 year ago
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thethingthatwants 1 year ago
Machines making machines... That sounds great... -.-
scientolofag 1 year ago
this would be great for auto parts. order the parts online, and pick it up at the nearest store. no waiting , no shipping charges, a smaller carbon footprint. I think it would be commercialized first, then used more in the home. I can see this in every home. It is a time saver, and an energy saver.
realoldguy1969 1 year ago
@realoldguy1969
Well no there would still have to be a finite number of possible starting materials. You're not going to say mill a shock absorber spring out of a cubic piece of steel
LeopardFrogPilboxhat 1 year ago
@LeopardFrogPilboxhat I wasn't thinking of the production of metal parts, just the plastic ones.
realoldguy1969 1 year ago
Awesome! Now they just need to add on a part to the machine that can actually assemble the new machine and get it running :)
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sausage4mash 1 year ago
ok,I frigging want one ! where can you buy it ?
sausage4mash 1 year ago
What an awesome machine. And what an incredible price, most rapid prototyping machines are way more expensive than that.
The sandals idea, is just fantastic, just lob in another milkbottle and scale it up by 1.1 Ha Ha Ha. How ace is that?
Just wait till we have nano versions of these, building up anything you want, atom, or molecule at a time.
It's godda happen. In time. Surely.
martiangrundy 1 year ago
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I'll buy this then we'll see
randomperson11111123 1 year ago
wow the sandal idea is such an awesome application!
ThatReplyKid 1 year ago
only 300 pounds!?!?! most are like 5,000!
7171997007 1 year ago
There's enough replicators like this available already that there's a website called Thingiverse that's like a photo or file sharing website, but it's for sharing object files for printing on these printers.
cmyanmar13 1 year ago
DUDE THIS IS SO FRECKING AWSEOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! serioulsy can you imagine what you can invent!!!
cooungry 1 year ago
WTF! It can produce 1/2 of its own parts. HOW IS THAT SELF-REPLICATING!! It would have to make 100% of its own parts AND assemble them. I just invented a fart that smells like roses! Well if roses smelled like farts that is. Same-same right? New Science is going down hill FAST!
TheVigilante2000 1 year ago
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@TheVigilante2000
"WTF! It can produce 1/2 of its own parts. HOW IS THAT SELF-REPLICATING!! It would have to make 100% of its own parts AND assemble them"
Not necessarily. All the alloy rods, and fasteners, etc, are already so common and relatively inexpensive it would be counter-productive to manufacture those from scratch.
Though you're correct, it is a little bit of a stretch to term it self replicating.
martiangrundy 1 year ago 7
@martiangrundy
"All the alloy rods, and fasteners, etc, are already so common and relatively inexpensive it would be counter-productive to manufacture those from scratch."
True, but it is still not self-replicating if it can't make them. MAYBE if it was a robot that could go to the story and buy the parts itself, take them home and assemble another robot it could be considered self-replicating in a fashion.
TheVigilante2000 1 year ago
@martiangrundy: All self-replicating mechanisms known today have some kind of reliance on infrastructure or another host. That includes self replicating computer programs and biological systems. In all self-replicating systems, its a question of how much to leverage off of the "host" or infrastructure to help you achieve self replication. There is no truly binary notion of self-replicating or not, its a question of degree; and Rep Rap is 50%.
websnarf 1 year ago
@martiangrundy Baby-steps, mate.
TomLento 1 year ago
@martiangrundy No, it does not need to replicate 100%. It needs to replicate just enough to enable the new machine to "acquire" the rest of the parts elsewhere and then have full functionality to replicate another machine with just enough....
Touch360 1 year ago
@Touch360
Yes M8, absolutely.
I think you may have taken the first bit of the post as my words. I was actually quoting someone else. And saying a similar thing to what you mean.
Very interesting machine none the less. Especially for the price/simplicity.
martiangrundy 1 year ago
WTF! It can produce 1/2 of its own parts. HOW IS THAT SELF-REPLICATING!! It would have to make 100% of its own parts AND assemble them. I just invented a fart that smells like roses! Well if roses smelled like farts that is. Same-same right? New Science is going down hill FAST!
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TheVigilante2000 1 year ago
cool well soon be able to replicate food for the poor and have new clothes every day! with 0 enviromental impact because it can all be recycled!! exept for the food lol
MrStartrekepisodes 1 year ago
@MrStartrekepisodes wouldnt using plastic still have an enviromental impact?
Merlin0ne 1 year ago
@Merlin0ne we already have plenty of plastic in dumps so we can just take that one and recycle it.
MrStartrekepisodes 1 year ago
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Merlin0ne 1 year ago
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@MrStartrekepisodes good point, that would be awesome, but then the problem would probably be shifted to producing plastic of sufficient quality from the dump plastic
Merlin0ne 1 year ago
@Merlin0ne isnt plastic from dumps good enoughfor you? lol
it takes thousands of years to decompose. its the same quality as it was the day it was made!
MrStartrekepisodes 1 year ago
The last explanation simply sums up why this technology could be revolutionary to the individual. Simply amazing, and slightly scary at the same time. ^_~
Jeredin13 1 year ago
oh yeah cause kids love to wear sandals that are made from milk cartons, that will look great in public and build their self-esteem
SomethinDwnUrPants 1 year ago
Kewl, I want a replicator!
WizardJim 1 year ago
lol, the program comes "free" with the machine :D
gam3raddict89 1 year ago
genius
maulcs 1 year ago
Imagine that in internet stores you only have to buy a pre-made product, and then have it printed out. genious.
Colaglass 1 year ago
I want one! I'll print out stuff so I don't have to buy it! Yay!
FutureInventions 1 year ago
This can change whole economies. WOW, really, really great. I thought that the makerbot cupcake was cool, and it is, but this is even cooler. Power to the people.
Shakespeare1612 1 year ago
Begun this clone war has.
Gnomechewer 1 year ago
NO! THIS IS WHAT ROBOTS NEED FOR US TO BECOME OBSOLETE!
doomsday1157 1 year ago
that is the coolest "printer" ever, I remember when I was a little kid in the 90s and I had thoughts of "wouldn't that be cool if you had a printer that could print stuff like lego" lol. Awesome to see such technology is neaaarly common-place
drakewingfire 1 year ago
Holy shit that's nice
TheCoffeeHater 1 year ago
finally future stuff is coming in my lifetime. My kids are gonna be living like the jetsons
dravarian26 1 year ago 16
@dravarian26 I'm just going to print my kids out of plastic.
Mavuriku 1 year ago
@dravarian26 Only if we can find a replacement for oil before it runs out, if we can avoid running out of water, if we can avoid a World War 3, avoid Nuclear War, and avoid ecological disasters which would prevent farming from continuing (like honey bees dying out, or that running out of water)
mostliberal 1 year ago
@mostliberal- no don't you remember everyone livesd in the sky because they screwed up the Earth's surface beyond repair in most spots
dravarian26 1 year ago
@dravarian26 not like the jetsons. Just because science can produce it, doesn't mean industry will manufacture it.
Fighting89Back 1 year ago
@Fighting89Back- it was a joke expressing my amazement at how fast technology seems to be moving
dravarian26 1 year ago
@dravarian26
This not new stuff....Check out rapid prototyping machine (SLA). I've been using it for years. There are also 3D scanner that has been used in industries where you can pretty much scan a whole car and not having to design it in computer
panterafist 1 year ago
@panterafist okay... its still cool, and I haven't heard about it before so I think it looks awesome and new.
dravarian26 1 year ago
I think the last concept about the sandals printing is great. Could download a design you like then augment it to fit specs.
nascarunlimited 1 year ago
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3 dislikes? really? what could you possibly have against convenience? fricking communists
PHDnHorribleness 1 year ago
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3 dislikes? really? what could you possibly have against convenience? fricking communists
PHDnHorribleness 1 year ago
3 dislikes? really? what could you possibly have against convenience? fricking communists
PHDnHorribleness 1 year ago
@PHDnHorribleness you're suggesting that communism is somehow incompatible with convenience, or the open source approach, right?
omgLordLituslol 1 year ago
So its pretty much a computer controlled hot glue gun?
I don't care, I want one!!
matieman77 1 year ago
there also is a self-replicating CNC wood router. it cuts wood, computer-controlled, and its made mostly of these wooden parts.
kurtilein3 1 year ago
Very cool.
bamboo4tameshigiri 1 year ago
Soon robots take over
I am going to download a car.. yeah.
gregor00005 1 year ago
tits
ObliviuxProductions 1 year ago
I would love to convert my water bottles into something completely random. I gotta get this
GLeNss 1 year ago
If My sandals are dirty I'll just print clean ones.
Charlymaumushi 1 year ago
@Charlymaumushi: Lol! That's pretty damn lazy. :) Though technically you'd probably have to clean the plastic in order to recycle it, so I am not sure you are coming out ahead ...
websnarf 1 year ago
@websnarf lol I know It was just for shits and giggles
Charlymaumushi 1 year ago
This is cool... i could plane models
IC1101 1 year ago