{"id":1267,"date":"2012-09-27T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:29:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:29:37","slug":"3d-printers-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/3d-printers-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printers for the masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/MakerbotGiftBags.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1270\" title=\"MakerbotGiftBags\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/MakerbotGiftBags-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/MakerbotGiftBags-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/MakerbotGiftBags-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/MakerbotGiftBags-457x300.jpg 457w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/09\/MakerbotGiftBags.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The latest Wired magazine arrived at my door today and on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2012\/09\/how-makerbots-replicator2-will-launch-era-of-desktop-manufacturing\/\">cover<\/a>: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerbot.com\/\">MakerBot<\/a> three-dimensional printer, slated to change the world. There are actually two new machines available for under three thousand dollars that can create objects in bioplastic from CAD files. A 3D printer in 4-6 weeks? Crazy, right?<\/p>\n<p>The Wired article brought to mind\u00a0Cory Doctorow&#8217;s story,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v439\/n7073\/full\/439242a.html\">Printcrime<\/a>,\u00a0originally published in 2006 in Nature. It is a short story and a good one so I won&#8217;t give away the ending here but it is about a man who goes to prison for building and operating a 3D printer.<\/p>\n<p>I admit that I have been day dreaming about 3D printers ever since I noticed that there is the possibility of a live demonstration on October 20 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessconference.ca\/\">Access 2012<\/a> library technology conference, from folks at Dalhousie Libraries. I&#8217;ll be there with camera in hand and I&#8217;ll check back in with you afterwards!<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/store.makerbot.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/1\/image\/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95\/i\/m\/img_1709_1.jpg\">Makerbot Industries<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Wired magazine arrived at my door today and on the cover: a MakerBot three-dimensional printer, slated to change the world. There are actually two new machines available for under three thousand dollars that can create objects in bioplastic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/3d-printers-for-the-masses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-3d-printers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}