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What do you think we will be 3D printing in 10 years?
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What do you think we will be 3D printing in 10 years?
Extreme custom fit items like glasses, shoes, hearing aids, gloves,
3D Printed Wearables, Broken Bones, teeth & other body parts across the street clinic !
Everything
Houses for sure, replacement organs, and Bio organisms "family Pet", Food, 3d printed landscaping / grass, for bald men maybe printed hair replacement.
In every home, hospital and office!
Circuit boards, full color desktop machines with multiple colors and unlimited geometry.
Nano Particle 3D printers printing atoms!
3D printers will be printing custom-fitted gear, I predict wearables to be a very large market as well as 3D printing starting to really emerge into the food industry.
3d-printers will utilize all axes (x, y, and z). Printing heads will be able to move like actually "arms" and utilize a 360 degree modeling space...... Underwater.
I think the next 10 years will spawn a new development of components based around 3D printing, eg. instead of us using pre-existing components. Stepper motors, 8mm shafts, stock bearings etc... for example, we use the same ones as they have been using or decades in photocopiers and other devices. There can't be too many more designs for 3D printers left, there is literally so many ways to make a machine do the same thing in different ways, so realistically the next step has to be actually improving and creating new smaller, lighter and custom components for 3D printers, like higher torque smaller steppers that require less power.. heatbeds that don't draw 5-8 amps... better hot ends, jam free feeders etc..
I am hoping in 10 years we have the neat bubblejet cheap devices on our desk.
Wearables and Print-to-use gadgets with curcitry
I hope we'll be able to print (within 20km or at home) for an equal quality and a lower cost compared to buying from an ocean away.
Including fabric based components : customized clothes and shoes.
Including plastic based components : appliances replacement parts, non powered items, customized items, basic tools.
And metallic components : appliances replacement parts, non powered items,, customized items, basic tools.
I believe that in 10 years printing almost anything is possible, the only question is whether it's cost-efficient enough at that time. That will take longer probably.
I'm hoping it will be more widespread in classrooms and makerspaces! Also, the leaps and bounds 3D printing is making in medical applications are astounding.. I hope to see more improvements and innovations in that area.
For me it would be car parts for custom cars, as I hope to be retired by then, and working on custom cars to keep myself busy
I think 3D sinter printers will be the most common type and the ones specialising in metal will be cheaper.
Customized wearable objects would be populare (I believe). Like you go in a shop, they take a 3d scanning of your body and 3d print your shoes or other objects that's fit perfectly. This can be done today but I believe that in 10 years this will be a popular thing.
pretty much everything.
The technology is starting to evolve exponentially, In ten years we'll probably be printing everything from replacement organs to pork pies :-)
Everything!
Houses, all kinds of products, spare parts, jewelry, figurines, organs, bones
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Aside from customized clothing and accessories I believe buildings will truly become a norm.
Just about anything.
Oh jeez. Who knows. Whatever it is I'll be right in the middle of it all so I hope there's some pretty cool developments in the next 10 years. 3D printed microelectronics would be epic.
Living tissues
Automotive - entire interiors, electronics - complete boards and systems in a single print on 6 axes
a world-wide and distributed manufacturing process for customized consumer goods
10 years? the quality is insane actually quality will exceed most modern fabrication techniques, and therefore custom fit everything, print a condom? no prob.. xD
What do you think we will be 3D printing in 10 years?
Molecules!
I think it will be more in custom items from custom shoes to custom heart valves from living tissue and Bio scaffolding. Though I think it would be interesting to see like electronics like a flashlight that just needs LEDs and batteries.
I think 3D printing will be in many homes of all people, not just "makers" like it is today. People will be designing and printing out everyday objects instead of going to the store and purchasing them. I think people will also be printing out non-traditional objects like food, clothing, or even organs!
Spaceships or at least many of their larger components. Seriously. And moon bases.
I have doubts that it will ever be part of mass manufacturing. There are cheaper alternatives for large scale production, but if every home had a 3-D printer, large scale production could become obsolete. I have no major predictions except that it will be prevalent throughout society.
we will be 3d printing all custom implants, tissue, organs, and prosthetics. Also, all household appliances will be purchased as 3d models and printed on the family's 3d printer. This will be the same for housing. Most families will purchase blueprints for a house and have it printed. Higher class families will hire a design firm to design their houses.
Definitely houses. Also, I could envision manufacturers giving out models to replace missing or broken parts (like battery covers from remotes).
Replacement limbs. Like, seriously improved ones.
Human organs for transplant, scan and print capabilities, organic matter. Flexible solar cells and complex circuitry.
Organs and more medical applications
Food, water, modes of transport, homes, plantlife(?)... everything
Custom fitted sports equipment and clothing I believe is a huge opportunity for 3D printers in the future.