Is the resin for this a standard type of resin? Seems like you don't get much of it with the kit.
Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Audio output of modern computers is high precision. 16 bit resolution is pretty damned precise...even once converted to analog. I'm certain the mechanical parts being driven by it is a much, much, larger source of errors than any decent computer output would be. That said, there is measurable and audible differences between a stock audio output and a high end (or even prosumer) audio output. A nice 24 bit audio box c…
I'm not referring to 16 bit precision per sample, more to 44khz and the potential for multi-millisecond audio glitches on most modern PC configurations. Glitch-free audio is pretty tough, still.
It may not require low-latency dynamic audio at all. It could be that you could transfer many ms of signal to the hardware in advance to ease your timing requirements.
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#113why does the site, before it finishes loading, want me download a *.torrent file?
Chrome downloads this http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html as torrent.
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#114Mount a Raspberry PI to the side of it (with a USB microphone)and you could treat it as a network-attached printer :-)
The Raspberry Pi only has 12 bits of audio output resolution and - at least historically - has had problems with latency-related audio glitches due to Pi-specific drivers spending too much time with interrupts disabled.
Couldn't you fix that with an USB sound card? My headphones included quite a nice compact one.
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#115"Grayson wrote an add-on to blender which translate 3D model into an audio waveform". This guy probably has a t-shirt that reads "What would McGyver do?"
This guy probably printed a t-shirt that reads "What would McGyver do?". Using a waffle iron.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you wouldn't mind, could you indicate which other methods you are referring to? I'd like to check them out. As far as I know stereolithography is the most accurate method known. And I can't foresee any accuracy issues inherent in this particular solution that can't be improve with a slight increase in materials cost.
In talking to a number of people who've purchased or built a range of what I would characterize as hobby machines the common thread is that they are nearly unusable or a complete pain to use for real commercial work. Everyone I know who uses 3D printing for non-trivial business purposes either contracts out the work to 3D printing service bureaus with heavy duty commercial grade machines or they actually invest on su…
This is perhaps a bit like how an SLR-owning photographer would have looked at cameraphones when they came out. Or how a mainframe programmer looked at microcomputers.
They, and you, were absolutely right to observe that these devices were massively less capable than the existing devices, and to foresee that they would never become as capable, and to explain that the reduced capability translates directly into less freedom to create, and to predict that they would not replace the existing devices.
Where they might have gone wrong (i note that you do not!) would be to conclude that these devices were therefore never going to be successful. They did not displace the existing devices from their niches; they carved out an entirely new niche, surviving by making small profits from huge numbers of people.
The boosters are talking rubbish when they say that 3D printing will revolutionise manufacturing. But it might just revolutionise DIY.
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#117Nobody seems to get that this is the first 3D printer with which printing can be easily parallelized! This is going to be huuuuuuuge!