Starting last year, I got pretty deep in the weeds with 3D printers, creating everything from tabletop game accessories to smartphone stands to a sweet mini Millennium Falcon. For the 2019 holiday season, I've doubled down, getting into 3D scanning and even laser cutting, which lets you sculpt real-world designs from wood and leather.
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It is really amazing how accessible these maker items are becoming. I remember when all of these devices like 3D printers started coming out and it was a really cool time to see how expensive they were and to now see that they are rapidly decreasing in price and becoming accessible to a lot more consumers. These devices offer a lot of great benefits to us in this program. We can easily 3D scan an item and start making copies if we need to. We can potentially make props or even some special hardware that might be expensive. While this technology is still extremely new, I see a lot of potential for so many industries to use it. I have even heard about 3D printing being used in the medical industry to produce medical devices as well as many other manufacturing industries. I think it is really cool that you used to have to be a huge company with a lot of funds to obtain one of these devices, but can now be an average person and have one of these in your house.
It’s crazy to me to see how much cheaper 3-d printers have gotten in the past few years. They have gone from things that you would only see them in university settings and labs to being at home testing pieces. These printers have such interesting properties and the price point is staggering to me. The 3-d scanner is also something that I did not see coming in this article I would have also thought that this was something unobtainable for your average consumer as it is typically such a cutting edge device but seeing the Sol scanner priced so affordably relative to its other competitors at that price. It’s only a matter of time I think until these two devices are combined together and consumers are able to purchase something in which they can recreate components that they already have. Like waiting for the day when you can scan your broken things at home and scan them up to recreate a new component.
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