XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, sci.electronics.design
In sci.physics Jeff Findley wrote:
> In article <24vf3e-srm.ln1@mail.specsol.com>, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
> says...
>>
>>
>> I can see a few, very few, people printing junk jewelry, mostly teenage
>> girls.
>
> Perhaps, but have you been to a craft store in the last 5 years?
> They've been selling commercial 2d robotic cutters for many years that
> are about the size of an ink-jet printer. The stupid thing shows
> absolutely no sign of stopping even though the "cartridges" which
> contain the cutting patterns are DRM protected and *very* expensive.
> They are mostly used by people who like to do scrap books, but others
> use them for making their own greeting cards and etc.
>
> In those same craft stores is a large jewelery making section. Those
> "memory bracelets" people make are a hot thing because "every item on it
> represents a memory". In other words, these things are already highly
> customized.
>
> So, I wouldn't discount the notion that the crafts stores might start
> selling very small 3d metal printers for making little dangling things
> for jewelery (memory bracelets, necklace charms, and etc.) since this
> would drop right into the market-space. They would only need to print
> at most 3" x 3" x 3" to cover 99% of the jewelery market.
>
> That same metal printer would sell "big league" at game stores where
> custom cast characters for board games are already a huge market. In
> other words Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, and etc. Even if an
> individual player wouldn't want one, every damn game store on the planet
> would want at least a couple.
>
> Jeff
By those standards black powder firearms will take over the firearms world.
I'm not saying there is not and will not be a bunch of niche users of
3D printing.
What I am saying is that 3D printing is not going to be the next industrial
revolution.
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Jim Pennino
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