3d scanner and printer?

[Paola Di Maio]

Thank you JJ

I am an alumni of UoS -

first heard the word reprap from Jonathan Corney there
will seek him out -

yes of course, there was a wave of hype but still....
should be more economical but its still big thing happenings in innovation

vouch to buy one for EC after escaping wolves

PDM


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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:48 PM, JJ <unigamer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > P
> >
> >
> >
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> > Paola Di Maio
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> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Martin McGrath <
> mcgrath.martin at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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)
> > > >
> > > > actually, I am  a bit shocked at the lack of 3D printers and
> scanners,
> > > >
> > > > only two places?
> > > >
> > > >  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
> > > >
> > > > any idea what is stopping social innovation?
> > > >
> > > > PDM
> > >
> > > You consider a few places offering 3D scanning to be a social problem?
> > >
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