XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, sci.electronics.design   
      
   In sci.physics krw@notreal.com wrote:   
   > On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:45:42 -0000, 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.   
   >   
   > Personal 3D printing won't be the next industrial revolution.  3D   
   > printing is already revolutionizing engineering.   
      
   Nonsense.   
      
   3D printing is simply making some prototypes easiery to make.   
      
   CAD software has to a certain extent revolutionized engineering, but that   
   is very old news.   
      
      
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