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Article: E-Z Make Oven.(What's New: Tech That Puts The Future In The Palm Of Your Hand; Home Tech; How It Works)(3-D printer from Desktop Factory )
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Byline: Mike Haney
The 3-D printer gets smaller, cheaper and one step closer to your living room
IT'S A TANTALIZING scene from the future: Something breaks--a coffee cup, a part for your flying car--and you fire up a magic box to make a replacement. This has actually been possible for years--if you had $20,000 for a 3-D printer.
The Desktop Factory costs a quarter as much--with its eponymous maker aiming to charge less than $1,000 in a few years. The dorm-fridge-size machine uses a $20 halogen lamp instead of a laser to turn powder into plastic, and a roller instead of expensive inkjet heads to set down layers of material. And it makes smaller ...
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... ... Corp. of Rock Hill, S.C., and Desktop Factory Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., are ... quality solid models within hours. Desktop Factory's low-cost 3-D printer is smaller ... is annealed to form a solid part. Desktop Factory plans to launch the product during ...
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