NextEngine 3D Scanner at Jay Leno's Garage

[tweakiepop]

Wow! can you send the information to be 'printed' /constructred on another machine anywhere in the world? Soon maybe parts for satellites could be beamed up into space!

[leonphelps123]

if the car company went out of business, who gives a rats ass who makes the replacement parts.

[axxerr]

what is the maximum size of objects to scan?

[theYguy300]

Hey look it's the Crimson Chin!

[ZX2ManDave]

3d replicate Jay Leno's chin.

[ZX2ManDave]

Thats right out of Star Trek. Its just like something you would see Scotty or Geordi La Forge working with in engineering on the Enterprise.

[WhatTheHellsAGigawat]

God, I want one.

[airforcesoldier25]

Print yourself a better camera.

[terrinakamura]

I really hope this can be made available to the average person

[imkosherdillbill]

Wow. This could help even current car owners in obtaining (possibly) cheaper parts. I wonder how expensive it is to actually reproduce the scanned object in metal. And where would you go to do that? This is so cool, and has so much potential in all fields: medicine, art, etc.

[jeffrey1004]

@imkosherdillbill its actually funny that you say that, because one day itll be as bad as media piracy is today. its wonderful technology but its scary at the same time. and it is already becoming more readily accessible to the average person as the initial patents have just run out, so cheaper variants are coming onto the market. now days you can literally print out any material as well even metals, mind you you will still have to do a bit of finishing before they are actually usable.

[otester]

Me want.

[Stonepumper]

Truly amazing technology right there...just think what can be done as technology progresses. I am totally impressed...but not surprised.

[crafter]

Fun technology, think of all the benefits to the human race we can get from it.

Jay Leno: "Old American cars can stay on the road forever... America!!"

...

/facepalm

[warman0712]

I can't wait until this can be done with metal. Just heat the nozzle up way higher and heat up the tube transferring it to the nozzle and there you go. A metal 3D Printer. No more need for CNC and other machines. Within the next 20 years or so I think this will be done.

[momofdar5]

This is amazing!! what a cool new machine!

[reveaglestar]

Jay has the coolest toys. Every gear-head could use one of these.

[TheWhyRemember]

no reason arrest . newsvine . com

[punchthedog]

Can the digitized parts be uploaded to a database to be downloaded by others who have 3D printers and may need the same part? If all the classic car/vintage aircraft enthusiasts around the world scanned their parts, it wouldn't take long to build up a comprehensive global database of rare parts. You could charge a subscription fee.

[sonic911]

holy shit it made the wrench fully functional!!!

[JG40061]

Good Job Jay! We need more good paying skilled jobs like that here at home-

[Spooie]

what the hell if its a laser scanning the surface of objects how does it mold the inner mechanics of the part shown at 5:56

[buffLaser2000]

@Spooie It's not a mold - 3D printing can create inner geometry in a way that no mold or CNC can. So, it just comes down to constructing the geometry in software. Of course, a laser scanner has a similar problem as a CNC - that is, some undercuts and internal structures can't be "seen" by the scanner. Usually you can reconstruct the missing parts pretty easily in software, which you end up doing anyways when you idealize the geometry.

[buffLaser2000]

@Shika511 Just run alignment. The software will figure out the axis of the positioner, and from then on all your scans will line-up as they are scanned (until you move the positioner or scanner).

[schlusselmensch]

@buffLaser2000 What is preventing going from scanner direct to hogging out of solid? Depending on the geometry of the part of course. That steam valve looked to be a candidate after a RapidWorks cleanup of the scan. The part would be much more robust as well from solid. Regards, KGB

[buffLaser2000]

@schlusselmensch Nothing. You can do that too. In fact, that is what you usually do in the end. The plastic part is useful if you want to make a test part first. Sometime you don't need to, but other times it is very useful, especially if you're making extensive changes to the design.

[1pcfred]

@modellabs A model part that fit would be too small after being cast due to metal shrinkage. You know the whole many liquids are a greater volume than their solid state deal? But hey it's a thought right?

[pakman0033]

What's next? One can only imagine and it could be so.

[nealmeal2000]

a working model of jay leno-lol

[Greorgy]

surprising even in this day and age

[Lesst]

Wouldn't this just simply make an exact copy of the original piece, with the crack and all other imperfections as well?

[buffLaser2000]

@Lesst The scan will contain the imperfections, but software called RapidWorks is used to "idealize" the shape and make it perfect again.

Once the part is in software you can modify it all kinds of ways.

[HomeDistiller]

its a bubble jet printer that uses plastic.. they are starting to use bubble jets to print cells now so you can get a new heart printed from with your own DNA (as they can now also manufacture cells) so you can just slap the new one in.. it might be 20 years away till its cheap enough to use but still wow

[yryj100]

This is cool, but at $3,000 is too expensive and uses active sensing. I accidentally discovered this company Visualsize that can construct all kinds of 3D models - partial or complete - using color photographs collected from random locations around a 3D object. They do real nice 3D faces too. The technology of Visualsize is really cool and I haven't seen anything like it. It claims to work with any consumer-market digital cameras without special equipment and user training.

[buffLaser2000]

@yryj100 Interesting system, but there's no comparison when it comes to quality and accuracy. I see lots of errors in the results from visualsize.

[SpunkyNinjaMonkey]

@buffLaser2000 i thought a monopoly company was illegal in the US

[Veikra]

@SpunkyNinjaMonkey it's not illegal, check the federal reserve for instance :p

[SpunkyNinjaMonkey]

do you own visualsize?

[BrownstoneAruba]

Wow this is amazing.Now I wouldnt have to buy my kids any toys.Just model something in CAD or Zbrush and tadaaa Happy Birthday son here is your complete The Avengers Action Figure Collection.^_^. I love this!

[TheOcculus]

I've heard this type of printer called a Santa Claus machine.

[prodriver1]

I want that wrench!:)

[JackieAutodesk]

Cool!

[JackieAutodesk]

This is very cool, we've talked about it in our blog post "Design Visualisation: Its the Showing that Counts (and Other Lessons from Jay Leno)". Find it at

autodeskshowcase(dot)co(dot)uk

[viktorgv]

hey ppl check this one "vi3dim" find it on youtube.

[mjottman]

You can't make this part by using CNC...but, you can make the individual parts and put them together after the fact. interactive moving parts can only be made with a 3D "printer" type unit, like what you see in this video.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

it would be coll if you could use a nano particle liquid ceramic as the printer material then simply put it in the kiln and you would have a ceramic part.

[brendan2milo]

very amazing machine, i want one just to play with!

[MrDevo5]

tomorrows world today!

[jetx00ss]

If anybody knows how to get a hold of Jay Leno let me know I have a solution for his gear manufacturing for a there is a company called perfection hydraulics in Indiana they kept all their antique milling machines for making gears my family and I restores antique heavy machinery and after 30 years as the only company we found that can make them

[lundburgerr]

You can build one of your own 3d printers for about $500

If anyone is interested you should check out the open-source project called RepRap

[TodaysRapSucks]

i would put my dong in there.

[gsp2241]

i would put your dong in there to.

[tgamirov]

I don't think even that technology can handle such fine scanning...

[n0y0x]

nice one

[kidd2k1]

ZING!

[ckillls]

yea make a gun

[1035573]

HOLLY CRAPPO...

[yurikarkinovich]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AATTTTTTTTTTTTTT in 1 shoot? i thought was piece by piece and then u assembl them ,OMG in 1 shoot this is a amazing machine.

[Heavymetal350Z]

thats amazing!

[nickaldersonoxford]

I want one of those!!!

[bando8000]

Neat.

[Tamalain]

You would use the plastic model to produce an exact mold. You can then make as many new parts as you need.

[RonaldMoD]

But still, how do you go from plastic to metal? You still need the manual work there... so what's the point really??

[pbhogl]

You can still make everything in plastic which is very usefull, not so much in this situation though. However, they are making (or working on at least) 3D printers which prints metals too and the vision is nano printers where the printer can recreate any material so you can print anything.

[RonaldMoD]

Scientists are also working on a fusion reactor. That still doesnt mean that its going to be a reality in any nearby future. But both would no doubt be lovely to have :-)

[buffLaser2000]

You can send the same digital file (used to make the plastic print) to a CNC machine that will cut the part out of metal. Also there are 3D printers that will print directly in metal. Recent advancements allow the creation of stainless steel, ready-to-use parts.

[tolo02]

Myth Busters used it with a wood cutting machine to make a scaled model of a car that they used to test rockets..

[zupaluva]

Making things in metal (casting/milling/etc) = expensive

Rapid prototyping = inexpensive

Before producing parts in metal, it is important to prototype because you don't want any errors in the metal parts

[humantestdummy]

you put the 3d image to a computerized machine that makes metal parts

[Filmaker92]

Just think if you buy these babys then you don't have to work on school projects again! You could be lazy and not do the work and let technology do the work for you!

[1pcfred]

@Filmaker92 Design is a lot of work too you know? Or perhaps you don't.

[toranacar]

This is just awesome

[Katelyn3666]

Imagine what this could mean and do for the car industry as we know it as well as other industries.

[Capnwabbit]

So if it's going through the pooter, it could go over the net :)

[humantestdummy]

you are right, it would be amazing if you had a network of old car parts you could remanufacture

[Capnwabbit]

Yeah, forget postage, just download it. And newer cars and stuff too of course. Somehow I suspect government will try and restrict it though (download an AK47?)

[humantestdummy]

i guess you could scan anything, nuclear bomb?!?! haha and yea i guess you could make an ak from scratch if your good enough and know what your doing

[mirringues]

ak47 blueprints are free since dunno 20 years ago, manufacturings demands dependable on the quality of the release f production, so I encourage you to produce a renewed ak47 2000 model.

[Whitehorze]

The fact that the printer can actually make a MOVING wrench (or anything else) as one solid unit is absolutely Brilliant. Combine that with a lowcost, portable 3d scanner and you have a basement workshop that can build parts for the spaceshuttle (given the strength of the plastics used)... Very cool...

[alexmansuroglu]

is there any decent scanners that can scan car kits for example a bumper of a car or scan an actual car?

[MrSolidxperts]

The printer standing behing Jay Leno is a SST1200es Dimension Printer from the company Stratasys. If you want more info on these 3D printers go check out the dimensionprinting web site. And if you are in the eastern canada and would like to see these printers in action google SolidXperts, we are the Dimension printers resellers for Québec and the maritime provinces. We give regular seminars on how this technology can improve buisnesses and all the diffrent applications of 3D printing.

[PLCguy16]

3D Printers are cool!

3D Scanners are even cooler!

Combining a 3D scanner and 3D printer,

PRICELESS!

[cillebeast]

Now if the scanner machine could write the CNC code to machine the parts that would be cool.

[mynameisdylanholcomb]

Pretty awesome. imagine an entire grandfather clock being made of plastic

[letsburn00]

This stuff is already being done on the ultra-cheap. The reprap project is basically works like this printing machine, but does it for less than $1000.

[Desawa82]

Stereo Lith has been about years, I was making prototype parts ten years ago, the cool thing is the 3D scanner, my only worries are the tolerancing, and the machining you have to do to the finished cast parts to get them to work.

[NFSGamerUSA]

HO. LY. SHIT! They've reached an impossible dream. What incredible and infinitely useful technology!

[jwentz32]

I like the idea that we are innovating but on the same hand im not to sure if i really crazy about something like this. To me, being somebody who is in his second year tool and die apprenticeship, it can be a little scary. When you think about the fact that this one little $3000 machine can perfectly duplicate anything you really want it to, you could easily put 50-100-150-200 skilled tradesman out of jobs. Were innovating yes great, but are we getting to smart for our own good?

[Capnwabbit]

jwentz. couple this with nano technology of the future and, in all seriousness, I'd suggest you find another line of work

[1pcfred]

@jwentz32 They'll still need someone to feed the plastic spaghetti into the printer. Or you could all band together like the Luddites did, but that did not end very well for them.

[danno222us]

Fantastic post!  It feels good to hear about inovative technology right here at home! Kudos!

[RandyWayneFricke]

Sure Jay. I too have a 1907 WHITE STEAM Car. Doesn't everyone?

[stuntpea]

Jay is so right about Chinese made poor quality parts on English cars.

I have an Austin Mini and I've been replicating the parts in titanium. Often from new parts made in China. The quality is awful.

It's nice Jay is patriotic. Over here in Blighty, they look at you like your in the KKK for buying British. : )

[stengould]

Is this too good to be true?

[Boeing727223]

Fantastic! And the Scanner is 3 grand...software upgrades another grand...not bad considering this stuff was tens of thousands of dollars not too long ago

[pudd750]

hey jay did you have double injectors installed on your steamer(s) for safety?

[zonian71]

WOW... A working tool right out of the machine... When they make the plastic as strong as metal you wont need anything else...Dang no more Napa..lol

[jwentz32]

i dont know if you picked up on it but they said they make a plastic part first to see if it is functional then they take it over to a "fadal" which is a brand of cnc machine. That is when they make the fully functional part out of metal.

[llgoody13ll]

Amazing technology, very important to small machine shops competing with China and India, and I see one comment. Oh, and the comment is thoroughly disparaging.

A Paris Hilton or Britney Spears interview would have received as many comments in a day.

[atanguay]

Wow, this must have been a slow Tonight Show.

[buffLaser2000]

This was a joke! : )

Actually, this tech could be sorta cool on the tonight show, if they could figure out how to make a gag out of it. Maybe scanning people's faces so they could be fitted with custom-printed prosthetic chins.

[mixedbreed1282]

@atanguay This wasnt the tonight show. Its a show on tv caled jay lenos garage. He shows all his cars and stuff from his garage.

[atanguay]

@mixedbreed1282 I know, it was a joke.