[hackpgh-discuss] Re: universal construction kit
- From: Sarita Taub <ssimonisme@xxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:21:10 -0400 (EDT)
What I would like to do if I had a 3D printer is make LEGO Blocks that look
like castle blocks and plates of specific lengths, widths & heights.
Sarita
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hackpgh-discuss <hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 4:33 pm
Subject: [hackpgh-discuss] Re: universal construction kit
And we all know how awesome megablocks are... :- )
I heard somewhere that real LEGO have +/- 10 micron in their
fabrication, but I don't have a source on that, and that current
extruded plastic printers have about 4x that in terms of resolution and
(even more importantly) thickness of a single extruded layer.
Surely we are definitely < 5 years from hobbyist-level sub-10 micron
accurate printers!
-Matthew
On 03/21/2012 04:29 PM, Elijah Richter wrote:
> Yeah, I'm a bit skeptical of the Lego component, my guess is at best you
> could print Mega blocks...
>
> -Eli
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Zachery Shivers
> <zachery.shivers@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:zachery.shivers@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Plus, is your makerbot accurate to the micron? :- )
>
>
> Do Lego's really require micron resolution to snap together?!
>
>
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