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  • Re: OT: Living in the future: 3D printing edition......

    From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 22 09:24:26 2025
    On Wed, 21 May 2025 16:25:16 -0400, Cryptoengineer
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Today I was working in my office, in a project involving Torx security >screws. I'd bought a set of bits (delivered overnight by Amazon), but
    found that I did not have a 6mm driver handle to use them in.

    But in the next room sat one of my 3D printers. I downloaded an STL
    file from the net, and 18 minutes later had my handle and
    could continue the project.

    I feel a childish sense of delight in this. It's a bit like owning a
    Star Trek replicator. I conjured this tool out of the ether and into
    actual existence.

    Yep.

    I once read an article suggesting that 3D Printers would produce a New Industrial Revolution.

    And maybe it will.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Tony Nance on Thu May 22 22:39:03 2025
    On 5/22/25 17:09, Tony Nance wrote:
    On 5/21/25 4:25 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
    Today I was working in my office, in a project involving Torx security
    screws. I'd bought a set of bits (delivered overnight by Amazon), but
    found that I did not have a 6mm driver handle to use them in.

    But in the next room sat one of my 3D printers. I downloaded an STL
    file from the net, and 18 minutes later had my handle and
    could continue the project.

    I feel a childish sense of delight in this. It's a bit like owning a
    Star Trek replicator. I conjured this tool out of the ether and into
    actual existence.

    pt

    Gotta agree that this is way cool.

    Enviable!

    bliss

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