The 3d printers in display in Lisbon Mini maker Faire last weekend.
For more details check out my blog post: http://reprapstyle.blogspot.pt/2014/09/lastweekend-lisbon-had-its-first-maker.html
In the mid 90’s I saved all my plastic bottles & jugs sure that one day we would be able to melt all of our consumer plastic into storeable blocks of plastic for use in what was predicted to arrive eventually as a home manufacturing machine. The 3D printers are the closest to the residential manufacturing machines they talked about. What about our ability to somehow store melt & reuse our own plastic discards? Is that possible & is that ever going to be a reality?
In the mid 90’s I saved all my plastic bottles & jugs sure that one day we would be able to melt all of our consumer plastic into storeable blocks of plastic for use in what was predicted to arrive eventually as a home manufacturing machine. The 3D printers are the closest to the residential manufacturing machines they talked about. What about our ability to somehow store melt & reuse our own plastic discards? Is that possible & is that ever going to be a reality?
Its kind of possible…You have DIY filament extruders from pellets, so I guess that if you cut your plastics to tiny pieces you could do that…
Kind of possible…? Cutting into pieces would be a waste… That would defeat the point… the point is melt them into the inventory you now buy…