• Question: If you could build anything on a 3D printer, what would you build?

    Asked by Charlotte to Dave, Ed, Guido, Hugh, Stef on 12 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Dave Bond

      Dave Bond answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      Hi Charlotte,

      I would want to build another and better 3d printer. Just because the ability for one machine to replicate itself is the beginning for other cool areas of science, such as machines that can repair and reproduce.

    • Photo: Ed Rial

      Ed Rial answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      Hi Charlotte.

      Anything is a lot of things to choose from! I think I’d print a spaceship! 😉

      In terms of real things I might print I think I would print a model of Diamond. (One of my colleagues has already done this for part of Diamond. It looks really cool!)

    • Photo: Hugh Harvey

      Hugh Harvey answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      I’d like to print a life-size human skeleton, bone-by-bone, and then put it together!

    • Photo: Mariastefania De Vido

      Mariastefania De Vido answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      Hi Charlotte,

      I would build a scaled-down model of the laser system we are building – actually we are already thinking of doing it! 🙂 This would allow visitors to see the system from every angle and better understand its components.

      Stef

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