XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: '''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 12/07/2017 18:45, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   It already is for certain types of fast prototyping of intricate parts.   
      
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