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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII
I think that guy may have worked himself to death.... may want to look into that....
Does it print in ABS? I've played around with the 3-d printer at the tech shop. Its a cool tool, but the materials are absurdly expensive. |
Something to remember. According to the parts rules for some previous years, you must account for the cost of materials by using the price of the smallest commercially available quantity. In this case it would be the cost of the spool of raw material.
We have access to a Selective Laser Sintering machine. The material runs something like $100/lb. Unfortunately it is only available in 20lb buckets. That puts a 1 cuin part that weighs about 16grams at $2000. Just a little over the $400 limit.
The rules do change and this is one of the sillier implictions of the previous rules. Why would we want to discourage teams from using this technology if they have it available? Let us hope for better wording in 2009.