3D printer

An entrepreneur could run off one or two samples with a 3D printer to see if his idea works.

Here we go. The scanner inputs every facets of the wrench into this computer, creating an image that would be sent to the printer.

A basic 3D printer, also known as a fabricator or "fabber" , now costs less than a laser printer did in 1985.

Once the piece is done, the file is saved and sent to a 3D printer, where it's printed out in actual clay.

A prototype for an electric vehicle -- code named Urbee -- is the first to have its entire body built with a 3D printer.

And that possibility may be closer with the arrival of the first commercial 3D bio-printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs.

No problem, the 3D food printer will create anything you want, literally at the click of a button.

The difference is that the printer builds a 3-dimensional scaffolding out of a sugar-based material called a hydrogel.

A research group at Loughborough University has developed a 3-D printer that can produce architectural objects out of concrete.

A 3D printer is likely to print the item as a complete part that requires no assembly.

Descriptions of the slices are then sent to the 3D printer to construct the respective layers.

Another route is to obtain a 3D printer and print on-demand widgets from eBay sales or an online store.

For people interested in new technology, a New York based company, Makerbot, sells kits to people who want to build a small 3-D printer.

This is a complete aircraft out of a 3D printer.

Instead of clay, they used a 3D printer to produce different molds of Dot posed in various positions.

The difference is that the "ink" in a 3D printer is a material which is deposited in successive, thin layers until a solid object emerges.

High cost and limited uses meant the 3-D printer market was small.

Making things with a 3D printer changes the rules of manufacturing

Make prototype with 3D printer for mechanical parts, maintain 3D printer;