On my way to the airport from home, my brother, father and I had actually been talking about 3D printing. While my father was getting gas for the car, my brother and I realized we didn’t really know how it worked, so I clearly remember looking it up in the car as we waited.
That made using the models pretty cool.
Anyway, apparently Chuck Hull, the inventor of 3D printing is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame! 3D printing technology was actually invented in the 1984, when “Hull had a realization: if you pointed a highly focused UV light at a special, goopy material (called a “photopolymer” ), the material would instantly turn solid wherever the light would touch. If you did this repeatedly, layer by layer, you could “print” an object into existence. He dubbed it “stereolithography“, and bam! 3D printing was born.” (Hahaha, I really enjoyed the article’s description, which is why I inserted it.)
He joins other famous inventors such as Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers, and even Einstein.
…pretty cool! Apparently his original patents are also expiring soon, which means the original technology could be available for public use soon.
This is so cool! As a followup – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131218100227.htm