Scanner / Duplicator machine

[34Hatt]

Nice Video of Jay Leno's machine in his garage. Must be nice to have the money for these toys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvzcGdZsTc

[CaptPatrick]

Dan,

The 3-D prototyping scanners are a hoot! Short money? Check out the "Replicating Rapid-prototyper"

[Bruce]

Wouldn't mind making one of those, how bout you Pat?

[CaptPatrick]

Researchin' it right now....



The COMPLETE kit with all mechanical parts and full electronics. (About $1,225 USD)

[jspiezio]

My wife had some prototypes made on one here at SUNY Farmingdale. Really a cool thing to see.

[coolair]

yep, think i want to build one

[IRGuy]

I had a client who made odd shaped plastic parts for household appliances..

They have a couple of machines where you draw the part in a CAD program, and the file is input into a machine which has two lasers at 90 degrees to each other, mounted in a tank of special liquid resin. The computer moves the lasers as it reads the drawing file.

Wherever the lasers intersect in the tank the heat created polymerizes the resin at that point. After the system is finished there is a full size plastic part from which they make a mold.

Fantastic stuff. One day a huge system based on the one in the video will be making full sized boats!

[randall]

there are a few companies that specialize in taking small models for sculptures and enlarging them....thats how they do it. scanners, computers, CNC , and lasers.

[coolair]

IT would be cool if someone could take 31 and scan it and make a cool model cheap. or copy one of the sweet hand made models, scan it then copy.
My vote is Capt. Pat be the team leader haha