While it’s not exactly a 3D printed motor, it is however, amazing. This motor is printed, and assembled at specific layers. At the end they have a working DC motor made out of mostly plastic. Looks like first insert is a ball bearing, second insert is magnets, third insert is coils of magnet wire, fourth insert is another bearing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pghZG1Neyc0
There are many practical issues to be worked out but this 3D printing technology will continue to advance in hundreds of domains. Would love to see some experimentation with the 3D printing of bridges.
That’s epic.
Id like to see within my time, atomic printing, piecing together elements as needed. Need titanium? Turn water into gold? We would literally be able to do anything.
@Steve_Sharp That is what Nanotechnologists call a Universal Assembler, couple that with the Disassembler which is basically a molecular scanner and you have pretty much everything you see on Star Trek minus the warp speed travel.