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I.C.A.N.N. has cheeseburgers! - http://www.lukesurl.com/archive...
I.C.A.N.N. has cheeseburgers!
Man I'd like to know what those beatnik earthworms in the picture in the background are talking about! - Doug
I like the idea of beatnik earthworms. ("Can you dig it?") It's actually this: http://www.lukesurl.com/archive... - Seth
Is it the future yet? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Is it the future yet?
very nice. Did you print it? - Rachel Lea Fox
Based on the different colors, I'm going to guess that each piece was printed separately. I can't wait until we can print the whole thing in one pass! - Gabe
Z-Corp printers can easily make objects like that in a single pass -- they basically have inkjet heads depositing colored glue onto layers of powder, and like ordinary inkjet heads they can print in full color. I don't expect the moving parts work very well, though. - ⓞnor
It wasn't me, but a friend of mine who's developing the printer. The car was from a test run, and I'm told they can turn out prettier if you care about the outcome, rather than about testing the printer. I think it was in one pass. Indeed, it is Z-Corp. And no, the parts don't move. - Seth
They can look slightly prettier, and you can soak them in epoxy, but they never *quite* shed that whole "bunch of powder glued together" look. If you've ever seen the Toy Story zoetrope (on display at Disney currently) -- http://www.flickr.com/photos... -- those figures are all made with a Z-Corp printer, and look about as nice as you can possibly make them look. - ⓞnor
Oh, my comment was predicated on the assumption that the thing worked. - Gabe
"that whole "bunch of powder glued together" look." - sounds like a problem for a surface coat of primer or thinned modelling putty. I suppose that doesn't exactly scale. - Andrew C
A similar model was on the cover of The Economist's technology quarterly - http://www.economist.com/images... (see also http://www.economist.com/science... ) - Thomas Amberg
People with laptops, facing each other at a table -- they look like they're playing Battleship. Have I really never noticed that before?
Hey, @rarb! Can I have your account to use it for, you know, actual RARB stuff?
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Bumping these, since they only just went public. I wish FF would use its own publication time to sort feeds. Who cares when I uploaded it privately to Flickr? ... also FF is missing two photos. Here's the whole set: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Seth
It turns out the new Bay Bridge is being built in China and shipped over in pieces. - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
I hope they stamp "Made in China" on it somewhere. - Seth from Bookmarklet
I want to like China, ancestral homeland and all that, but sheesh, why not have it done locally? Actually, are there any steel mills close to SF? Maybe transporting it by train or truck would be more expensive than ship? - Andrew C
Say, under the current "made in X" labelling laws, wouldn't the bridge still count as being made in the US, since the constituent parts were assembled there? - Andrew C
There's lots of labor involved. Presumably that's where China wins. But yeah, given that final assembly is here, it's probably "Made in USA". - Seth
Ok, that didn't take very long after all. Network is fixed. #rarb
Speakeasy network outage means #rarb is unreachable. They are working to fix the problem. When it rains, it pours!
Shoebox » Brian’s Brain » Should You Forward That Email? - http://www.shoeboxblog.com/...
Shoebox » Brian’s Brain » Should You Forward That Email?
Should I 'Like' this? No. But! No. - Kevin Fox
I have a few family members I need to show this to. Maybe it should be in the "Welcome to the Internet" pamphlet everybody gets (or at least should get). - Cyrus Lendvay
Cyrus, FriendFeed is a better place to share random funny emails. - Private Sanjeev
I might forward this to my mom. - Chieze Okoye
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