Think of your very own personal 3D printer capable of making objects up to the size of a loaf of bread. It is available ‘Cube 3D printer’ is now for sale.
The models are made by a spindle of plastic thread that is unravelled then it is melted and fed through a ‘print’ that creates your object layer by layer.
Objects are created on a computer using free online software, for example Google sketchpad. Once you have done that you transfer the replicator (a machine capable of creating and recycling objects) on a SD memory card.
3D printing is not new; it has been used for decades to create prototypes.
The Cube 3D printer is being sold at £1,130 for the basic version, which can only make single colour objects but an extra £161.74 gets a 2 colour version.
Expensive though they are, these printers will get cheaper, just like the calculator, which was hundreds of pounds at first, but now they are available for under a pound.
The future just got very interesting!
Joseph, Year 6
I didn’t know anything about this development Joseph. Excellent reporting.
Bill
Co-editor
Good reporting Joseph!
Thanks for the information. Do you know if I could produce some 3D prints of the New York skyline from photos I took on my recent visit?
well done that is really interesting i never knew they existed!!!
Sounds amazing Joseph!
i never knew that you could have a 3d printer