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[bandanam4n]

What is the most interesting thing you have seen done with a 3D printer or 3D printing technology?
The most interesting thing i saw done is a fully printed vehicle. It was only one that you could ride via straddling and didn't go very fast. But, it was the first example of what one could do with lots of modeling and dedication. inspired me to get a 3d printer.

- If you could build your dream 3D printer, what would it include and what would it do? Let your imagination run wild!

Huge, first off. Massive build area. Interchangable nozzles, kind of like microscopes, large nozzles for huuuuge prints but rotates around to a smaller size for the fine details. in-line filament changes. something that automatically switches out filaments for use so you can have multi-mutli color prints, all with one fancy, integrated nozzle. fully heated, of course. cameras all around to watch the build process.

[Blackdavid]

- What is the most interesting thing you have seen done with a 3D printer or 3D printing technology?

In my job I see people and builders often use 3D printers to print car racing parts(since im a racing team first mechanic). And that helps us a lot because when we are racing in a foreign country, we always have our truck with us, where the 3D printer is located. So if something breaks, we can easly recreate it in hours instead of waiting days for the replacement part to arrive to us.

- If you could build your dream 3D printer, what would it include and what would it do? Let your imagination run wild!

If I had money for any kind of printer, I would like it to be any kind of printer(of course). But if I had to buy a dream custom one, it would have an enourmous printing bed, about 4x4x2 meters, with 4 or 6 extruders each with different materials, lets say ninjaflex,pla,abs, alluminium etc, and that it could mesh those up together while its printing one singe part! Also, make anything in minutes, with a chirurgcal precision!

[Allen Taylor]

- What is the most interesting thing you have seen done with a 3D printer or 3D printing technology?

The most interesting thing I've seen done is a castle. It was made out of cement and printed in a man's back yard for his children to play in. It was bigger than a regular playhouse and smaller than an actual house. It made me realize how extraordinary this technology really is.

- If you could build your dream 3D printer, what would it include and what would it do? Let your imagination run wild!

My dream 3d printer would be adjustable in size and shape, allowing me to print items of huge proportions as well as items on a micro scale. I could design and print board games on the small end, with miniature figurines and playing pieces, and on the large end I could print heavy equipment, boats, houses, and buildings of various sizes and shapes. I'd like to be able to build an entire property complex with a house, a barn, a stable, chicken coops, a children's playhouse, a greenhouse, and more, and be able to add onto these structures over time.

I could add statues and other monuments to my property, build race tracks and go-karts as well as other RV equipment like snowmobiles, and repair parts for them. If it can be conceived, I'd like to be able to print it.

[mrwizard96]

- What is the most interesting thing you have seen done with a 3D printer or 3D printing technology?
BIO Printing of human organs and blood vessels. I see the most advancment in medicine because of these techniques. (The castle was pretty cool too though)

- If you could build your dream 3D printer, what would it include and what would it do? Let your imagination run wild!
Well I would build a printer with a very powerful laser synctering system that could use a ground sand or metal (or a combination) with a binding agent that when the laser bound them would create a harder than concrete structure more like marble. By alloying the printer to put different color sand down printing of any patterns and color combinations could be possible in the building of buildings, homes and other structures even art pieces.

[energywave]

- What is the most interesting thing you have seen done with a 3D printer or 3D printing technology?
The most interesting thing I've seen was a concrete 3d printer of huge dimensions. The man was printing a (not so) small castle to test the technology as he would like to 3d print his house. This is amazing as that can make a revolution for building extraordinary complex houses with near no man work.

- If you could build your dream 3D printer, what would it include and what would it do? Let your imagination run wild!
My dream 3d printer would be an affordable desktop printer able to 3d print durable objects in full color. With such a printer should be included a software, without all the complex aspects of 3d design as today (no thinking about normals, flipped faces, watertight surfaces, etc). That would allow the big mass to love such a printer and could be able to spread the technology and make big numbers. This will allow too prices to go down and big companies to make huge investments to enhance the technology.

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[Coop74]

The most interesting were 2 things Car parts chassis and panels included, and a huge Gothic looking 3D mural 3ft piece by 3ft piece.

[russmonster93@gmail.com]

- What is the most interesting thing I have seen done with a 3D printer or 3D printing technology?*Well I love seeing the prosthetic limbs. They make it so much easier and cheaper for children to have copies of prosthetics as they grow out of them.
- If I could build your dream 3D printer? I would build a huge 3d printer! One so big that that you could print entire cargo ships. But not any normal cargo ships, this would provide the ability to make better disigned ships that are stronger and lightweight capable of shipping more, faster and more fuel efficient.

[RobotHacker]

- What is the most interesting thing you have seen done with a 3D printer or 3D printing technology?
I love the prosthetic the student printed for the girl at his school. The printed castle is amazing too.

- If you could build your dream 3D printer, what would it include and what would it do? Let your imagination run wild!
Large volume, build a house/castle. Conductive filaments, make circuits. Carbon fiber, make vehicles. Electroluminescent filament, make signs and/or Tron inspired items. Flexible filament, make shoes/tires.

[Mjolinor]

Will I get an email when this madness is over?

There isn't much point trying to read the forum at the moment for the two or three posts per hundred that are interesting. I think that competitions like this are the easiest way to kill a good forum that there is. People stop coming and then find somewhere else to hang out and once the crap stops being posted it just dies. I have seen it happen with so many other forums, they become ghosts when the competitions stop because the people that have interesting things to say have stopped coming.

[Geoff]

Will I get an email when this madness is over?

There isn't much point trying to read the forum at the moment for the two or three posts per hundred that are interesting. I think that competitions like this are the easiest way to kill a good forum that there is. People stop coming and then find somewhere else to hang out and once the crap stops being posted it just dies. I have seen it happen with so many other forums, they become ghosts when the competitions stop because the people that have interesting things to say have stopped coming.

I have lost track of what I have entered and what I haven't.. I feel for the person that is going to have to compile all this information! The comp is open for several months too, and the only downside is as you said above, many will sign up, will enter into all the comps and never show up again