fP SOAP Server - Is there demand?

[Richard Kreiss]

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> Behalf Of Brian K. White
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: fP SOAP Server - Is there demand?
> 
> On 5/28/2013 6:03 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 02:56:21PM -0400, Walter D Vaughan Jr thus
> spoke:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> Subject: fP SOAP Server - Is there demand?
> >>
> >>> If there is sufficient demand, I very well may develop the product.
> >>> If
> >> not, it's
> >>> not worth eating up my Copious Free Time and Copious Free Energy,
> >>> and I'll stick a fork in the idea, and simply move on without pursuing it.
> >>
> >> [Walter D Vaughan Jr]
> >>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eExPp4lMKx
> c#!
> >
> > And that had...what, exactly...to do with the question at hand?  :)
> >
> > They're putting wayyyyy too much stock in this 3D printing thing, btw.
> > Not just this video...everyone.  There are some novelty things you can
> > do with it, there are even a few practical uses that seemed fairly
> > sane.  But overall, it's overhyped, IMNSHO.
> >
> > m->
> 
> I would say todays 3d printers are exactly like the first PC's.
> 
> What makes 3d printing so special is not so much what they can literally do
> right this minute but the fact that they are general purpose, agnostic,
> unlimited, and deal primarily with information, which anyone may have a copy
> of, manipulate, archive, improve upon.
> 
> The first 3d printers lack the materials and accuracy to build jet engines and
> heart valves, just as the first pc's lacked the software and horsepower to
> model weather or proteins. But once affordable machines got into numerous
> hands for a while and people started writing software (or cad files in this case)
> and once the hardware iterated a generation or two, personal general
> purpose user-programmable computers changed everything in a distinct
> before vs after way about like the invention of writing. (not printing, writing)
> 
> The hardware improving is a foregone conclusion. Just as with pc's it's all just
> "more of the same" after the earliest inventions up until maybe these new
> biological and quantum things.


Some of the more industrial strength 3d printers have been used to shape a replacement jaw bone and for other medical uses.

One day you might be able to take a 3d digital picture and have the printer duplicate the item.  This is not necessarily a good thing as it can be put to bad uses.

Richard Kreiss