Double wow. The price point is what does it.
Finally Jay Leno in a role where he is adding some value. I did not know he did something like this.
It saddens me that we have to have "celebrity" to show off great stuff to get it the attention it deserves.
Part of me wonders about the application for the scanner. For old parts that dont exist anymore, I can understand but otherwise its a copier and that is the very issue we have against the Chinese.
If it is not to serve the old part replacement market then i question the purpose because so few people repair anything other than old parts.
The printer is really neat. Especially being able to feed it something like polycarbonate and have it print assembled parts with supports in place.
I have used technology of a similar nature and the cost just to use it at the time was close to being prohibitive. But it certainly saved a fortune on the tooling being changed in mid stream and for time to market nothing to beat it.
I wonder how many people realize that much of what is seen at exhibitions nowadays is actually not even tooled up yet.
We did that way back in SA when i made some housings for an access control product and wanted to get it onto an exhibition and see customer reaction.
Process we used though was called
stereolithography the dilemma at that time was the parts were not totally durable. But it worked fine with a little paint etc. Especially if you want to produce photographs for marketing purposes before you commit to the tooling.
I would love to know the cost of the printer. But i agree with you Brent they could have gone straight to cnc for that kind of part given the cad model they have.
Really nice toys to have around.
Thanks for sharing the link there Brian