Lego Printer

horseunderwater · 3 Jun 2010 at 05:22

fantastic

antijoke · 3 Jun 2010 at 07:40

I thought this was about printing lego instructions.

That is awesome though!

danza · 3 Jun 2010 at 07:45

Wow, that is awesome. :cool:

gettothechopper · 3 Jun 2010 at 08:40

you could get this in 1990

ajstan · 3 Jun 2010 at 08:56

Epic

Scarecrow · 3 Jun 2010 at 09:29

on ebay now for £70. Very tempted

valve90210 · 3 Jun 2010 at 09:37

gettothechopper said:
you could get this in 1990

I had that control set, might even still have it somewhere in my parents loft....might have to go on a hunt for it.....

Valve

QlimaxUK · 3 Jun 2010 at 17:09

gettothechopper said:
you could get this in 1990

thats not really a printer as such, that would be a... sketcher?

jahujames · 3 Jun 2010 at 17:12

This rocks, but I cannot possibly begin to fathom the actual thought going through his head when he decided his life lacked a Lego Printer.

Daveangle · 3 Jun 2010 at 17:16

That is awesome!

Hamzter · 3 Jun 2010 at 17:47

Brilliant!

If you liked that, you'll love this....lego assembly line

illogik · 3 Jun 2010 at 17:49

ajstan said:
Epic

khimbar · 3 Jun 2010 at 17:58

That is quite probably the coolest thing in the history of the world.

RobH · 3 Jun 2010 at 18:10

xJcBx said:
Woah. Uber n3rd with 1337 skillz and too much time.

Building Candy said:
...and I thought I had too much time on my hands

SMN said:
That is amazing - the thing people do when they are bored

Prof. Cheese said:
Slow, monochrome and low DPI.

He would have been better off buying an old printer from the local paper.

It's called a hobby. You might enjoy playing video games, watching TV or browsing the web but some people get enjoyment out of other things like this. I see it all the time on the Internet like comments saying "you must have too much time" posted on Flickr, YouTube and various blogs when cool stuff like this is posted. What makes people so qualified to make this assertion? I'd rather people say they don't like it than claim that their efforts are useless.

PhillyDee · 3 Jun 2010 at 18:16

RobH said:
It's called a hobby. You might enjoy playing video games, watching TV or browsing the web but some people get enjoyment out of other things like this. I see it all the time on the Internet like comments saying "you must have too much time" posted on Flickr, YouTube and various blogs when cool stuff like this is posted. What makes people so qualified to make this assertion? I'd rather people say they don't like it than claim that their efforts are useless.

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Good reply. I have exactly the same attitude from people when I showed them my MakerBot (3d printer I built from a kit from the states). They just looked and asked "Why?"
There are a lot of people on these forums who do it the same way.

valve90210 · 3 Jun 2010 at 19:34

Just been looking at the MakerBot website, and my first reaction was most certainly not "why?" it was "oh my god how wicked is that!!! I'd blooming love one of those!!!

Prof. Cheese · 3 Jun 2010 at 19:45

RobH said:
It's called a hobby. You might enjoy playing video games, watching TV or browsing the web but some people get enjoyment out of other things like this. I see it all the time on the Internet like comments saying "you must have too much time" posted on Flickr, YouTube and various blogs when cool stuff like this is posted. What makes people so qualified to make this assertion? I'd rather people say they don't like it than claim that their efforts are useless.

I was joking you nonce!

Smudge · 3 Jun 2010 at 20:23

I dont want to take anything away from the OP at all....but

Dunno how much i'm aloud to say, hope no one from my company is on this forum

but about 18 months ago I developed a product for LEGOLAND that we print images onto LEGO brick's!

We can print on anything, the solution allows us to print on any shape object, upto about 70cm (I think, the platten only go's up and down so far).

We can print any quality, 5mp is the sweet spot for quality, image size, time to print etc.

If you go to a LEGOLAND park or a LEGO discovery or any of the other chains and a nice sales person offers your picture from one of the attractions, printed on lego bricks, then, youll see the fruits of mine and the company I works for's labour hehe.

PS. I really show post a pic in the "pic of your desk right now" as mines got so much LEGO on it I can just about get to the keyboard.

Matt.

666_Pounder · 3 Jun 2010 at 20:46

That was bloody awesome.

RobH · 3 Jun 2010 at 21:14

MakerBot is cool, I hope to be able to afford a kit in the near future as it's something I'm really interested in. I've been following the RepRap project for about 3 years an have watched Makerbot Industries grow from the ground up. I'm a contributor to the MakerBot wiki and have a few designs up on Thingiverse. If anyone is interested in the sort of things the MakerBot and similar printer can print just check out Thingiverse.

Here is a quick explanation about what the MakerBot is:

Prof. Cheese said:
I was joking you nonce!

I thought you might be but it's hard to tell on OcUK. There is usually at least one person with a comment like that who is serious.