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Personal Manufacturing

Proposed Q&A site for operators of 3D printers, hackerspace communities, and others interested in making physical things with computers.
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How can we get this proposal out of commitment and into beta?

may 10 at 23:30 JW8 261
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“Personal Manufacturing” or “Desktop Manufacturing”?

apr 25 at 15:31 Robert Cartaino♦ 472
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How about a discussion of the software available for the RepRap family of 3D printers? What alternatives are available?

feb 29 at 13:41 callisto 151
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How about adding CNC to the proposal?

feb 26 at 3:16 Ryan Hendrickson 51
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Any room here to include quantified-self discussions?

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Top Example Questions

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Where is subtractive rapid prototyping more appropriate than additive rapid prototyping?

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What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of 3D printers made by Stratasys, 3D Systems, Z Corporation, and Objet Geometries?

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What kinds of shapes are difficult to print on a MakerBot/RepRap and how can you hack machine performance to achieve them?

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Is there a standard computer language/method for communicating with 3D printers regardless of brand? If not, what are the obstacles to creating it?

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I'd like to print scale “cast-concrete” parts for modelers, including scale rebar inside. What 3D printers will print over/around frame-/lattice-work?


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"Both to answer questions and to ask questions."
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Adam Davis
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"We really need a site like this and give personal manufacturing another uplift. "
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"I'm a cofounder of a company that builds systems for printing microelectronics, so I'd be glad to contribute my expertise in that area."
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Brian Ballsun-Stanton
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"I support a persons right to create the future, cause if your not making your own, your just living in someone else's version. "
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pingswept
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"My profession is connecting weird stuff to the internet, and I've recently been experimenting with 3D printing."
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Mark Booth
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"My laser micro-machining background will help me contribute, but what really inspired me was a Reprap talk at Oxford Uni last year. Such potential!"
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