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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > MakerBots, RepRaps and UP!s: It's 3D printers!
 
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May 20, 2011

techknight posted:

i.materialize is the third main 3D-printing-and-more-on-demand service. They do some serious poo poo. They 3D printed The Thinker to help repair one of the statues that was stolen and hacked to pieces for scrap: http://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/3d-printing-rodins-thinker

I recommend Ponoko by default just because I write for their blog, but I haven't actually printed anything with any on-demand service yet. I just did these replacement analog sticks on my MakerBot (and wrote a post about them)

Wow! They are spendy... I've got a part that I want to prototype and am about to buy/build a rapman or a rep-rap mendel to print it. A rep-rap will require 3 pieces to be made then glued together. (Not sure about on a rapman) So is an L shaped thing that's 9 x 8 inches and 5 inches tall. Not very intricate... ~$2k from i.materalise and $4500 from Ponoko.

Just thought I'd share that...

:) Chris

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