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HOW TO - Build a Polar 3-D printer from LEGO

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Have you ever dreamed of having one of those replicators from Star Trek? Ever wanted to make just about anything at the flip of a switch? Well guess what? You're in luck, because in this Instructable I will show you how to make the closest thing to a replicator that current technology can manage; a 3D printer. Wait a minute, isn't there another Instructable on how to make a 3D printer from Legos? Yep, there is, but this 3D printer is different; it's a polar 3D printer and it's capable of printing out so much more than just chocolate. Now at this point in the intro you're probably thinking what do I mean by polar 3D-printer. Is it a 3D-printer that only works in the in the polar regions? A polar printer is a printer whose principal axes, or how it can move, are radius(in and out), angle(spin clockwise/counter clockwise), and as opposed to a Cartesian printer whose principal axes are X(left/right), Y(up/down). In other words, it moves just like a polar coordinate system.

HOW TO - Build a Polar 3-D printer from LEGO - Link.

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Posted by: samurai1200 on January 9, 2008 at 3:17 PM

it's a bitch to make a square in polar coordinates!

Posted by: badburt on January 10, 2008 at 2:54 AM

The plural of Lego is actually just Lego, NOT Legos.

Posted by: badburt on January 10, 2008 at 3:09 AM

The plural of Lego is actually just Lego, NOT Legos.

Posted by: JKelly on January 10, 2008 at 7:47 AM

Since you like correcting people so much, badburt... it's LEGO, not Lego ;)

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