3d scanner and printer?

[JJ]

If anyone is a student or member of staff at Strathclyde university, the
Fab Lab there (http://www.strath.ac.uk/fablab/) offers extremely good value
for money and I can highly recommend joining. I know this will be of
limited use to most Electron members but I know there are a few people from
Strathclyde here.

This probably isn't the place for discussing the pros and cons of 3D
printing but both applications you gave are things that standard 3D
printers (ie not £50,000 worth of technology) are totally unsuitable for! I
love 3D printing, only last week I made a custom jig for a toy being
finished on a disc sander (http://jonathanjamieson.com/projects/kururin/)
that couldn't have been easily done without a 3D printer. However, a few
years ago there was a bit of a bubble and hype about 3D printer, probably
overstating what the technology is capable of and what people are
realistically going to do with it. There are successful Makerspaces out
there but it's risky business: the machines, insurance, getting enough
members to pay for it all...



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                        - JJ <http://www.jonathanjamieson.com>


On 20 March 2017 at 18:48, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:

> A few years back ( even before you joined perhaps) community 3D printing
> hubs were planned everywhere, and they were going to impact manufacturing
> sector, at least social innovation in terms of letting people be creative
> and pring out their own teeth and shoes at the local hubs etc
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> Scotland/Edinburgh were going to be leading social innovation, at least
> based on some of the funding proposals which were going around at the time.
> I was hoping to come back to a thriving 3D printing community of innovators
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> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Martin McGrath <mcgrath.martin at gmail.com>
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> > On 20 March 2017 at 17:19, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks G
> > > Maklab webpage says they are in Edinburgh, but no further info
> > > (says edinburgh but there are no contact details)
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> > > actually, I am  a bit shocked at the lack of 3D printers and scanners,
> > >
> > > only two places?
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> > >  I was away for some time and would have thought that by now Scotland
> > would
> > > be full of them, with a web page listing them all
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> > > any idea what is stopping social innovation?
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> > > PDM
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> > You consider a few places offering 3D scanning to be a social problem?
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