.KeLFOuTO!r. Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 http://www.euronews.com/2014/09/04/3-d-printed-organs-one-step-closer/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebbls Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Ive seen this, amazing. check out the skin gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI. same principle but without the building agent (Bio degradable Silicone) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summ3rLady Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 My friend is a med student at Mizzou and he was telling me about this a few months ago. They got to do a 3D print out of their brain to see how wrinkly or not it was! LOL It was about half sized, but it was awesome. We were discussing the applications of them trying to make functioning organ parts. This is crazy cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskin Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 3D printing its quite amazing...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnl Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) They already used 3d printed to print a heart. Not as a replacement, but to be used for practice. Basically they scanned a babies heart in, 3d printed it, and practiced their surgery on the 3d printed heart. They were then able to operator on the baby and fix everything in one surgery. Click here I'm looking into building my own 3d printer. Does anyone here have any experience in building them. Currently I work with a 3d printer at my work, but it is only used for rapid prototypeing. Its a Leapfrog Creatr Dual. Edited October 25, 2014 by ajnl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leader RedBaird Posted October 25, 2014 Leader Share Posted October 25, 2014 I googled "build your own 3d printer" and one site says you can assemble kits from as little as $200. The lowest one on their link was $349, though. They also said the assembled ones are as low as $1000. What we need is a 3D scanner that will produce the code-file for the plans to build a copy of an object we want to duplicate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnl Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I googled "build your own 3d printer" and one site says you can assemble kits from as little as $200. The lowest one on their link was $349, though. They also said the assembled ones are as low as $1000. What we need is a 3D scanner that will produce the code-file for the plans to build a copy of an object we want to duplicate. There are two ways you can create the STL file (the computer model for the 3d printer). Like you said, you can use a 3d scanner, or you can create the object using a CAD program. Personally I used catia, it is very easy to make something and just "save as" an stl file. You can build a laser line scanner (one type of 3d scanner) also, my internship was about 3d scanners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Its impossible at the moment, because the accuracy of the printer is to low, Its by 2mm atm. For printing an organ it would need a accuarcy of 0.004mm to have a good structure. Its good to think about It. It also would have other problems even it would be possible, people who want to have power just print people who support them. So thats what I think about. We first should look how we could live somewhere else or how to not waste so much earth goods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnl Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 3d printing has a higher accuracy than that, maybe not 0.004, but definitely higher than 2mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnTV Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Cloned material stands a better chance for medical applications than does 3D printing, at the moment, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almondo Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 i cloned mine already...sorry i had to! http://ep.yimg.com/ay/buyinprivate/worlds-biggest-dildo-1.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Breakthrough in 3D-printing? MIT unveils device molding 10 materials at once A group of MIT scientists says they have developed the world’s first 3D-printer capable of making ready-to-use objects from 10 different materials at once. The new device, supplied with powerful software, boasts nearly human-free operation. A research team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has devised what they call a better, cheaper and more user-friendly 3D-printer – MultiFab. The name is due to the unusually high number of materials that it can simultaneously utilize in the manufacturing process – other existing multi-printers are limited to only three at once. Source:http://www.rt.com/usa/313858-multifab-3dprinter-ten-materials/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0aporte Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 if you mean an impression to look like an organ, you are right. if you expect a completely functional brain, not yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxifresh Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Holy crap thats crazy, Who knows what gonna happen in the future:o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarBlazer Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Very true! Tomorrow is just another step in that direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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