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Topic: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

A german designer has created an eco alternative to traditional Selective Laser Sintering. The Solar Sinter machine uses two natural resources sun and sand to produce physical 3d models from 3d CAD data.

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

link?

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NYLON (taulman): http://www.soliforum.com/topic/466/nylon/

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

smells like spam to me

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

ehh...he cant post links yet so its hard to say.  People should not be posting in the Latest section without a link.

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NYLON (taulman): http://www.soliforum.com/topic/466/nylon/

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

Well... spam is kinda the latest hot thing going on in 3d printing...

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

Someone did it in the Sahara a while back, but I don't think he was German.  http://vimeo.com/25401444

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

His name was kayser in the video, that sounds german enough.  Looks cool, sand yoda would have been cooler.

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

ahhh...the power of the sun. Very cool stuff.

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NYLON (taulman): http://www.soliforum.com/topic/466/nylon/

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Re: Could Solar Sintering be the future of manufacturing

Sand Jawa would be even better...

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