The 3D Printing April Fools Jokes Begin

[Maggie]

I always get a kick out of April Fools. Well the jokes have already begun it looks like. I have a feeling we will get several big time blogs having April Fools posts around the 3D printing market, so if you see any, post them right here please! Last year we had the Play-doh 3D printer story: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/1202...ek-april-fools

1. How about a 3D Printed Sandwich? (http://www.makerfaireuk.com/)


2. New 3D Printed Ammo Saves Us From ammo Shortages (http://www.guns.com/2014/04/01/new-3...-ammo-drought/)

3. How about the Chinese 3D Printing 10 homes for $4800? (http://www.3ders.org/articles/201404...-in-a-day.html)


4) McDonalds to 3D print Their Big Macs: (http://www.itproportal.com/2014/04/0...out-to-follow/)


5. 3D Printer Brain Interface (http://www.bandt.com.au/news/media/a...edia-stich-ups)

[brisinger]

This one made me chuckle: http://www.makerfaireuk.com/

Imagine how much it would splatter with the printhead being so high above the print surface, especially the high water content in tomatoes ;-)

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[MysteryAlabaster]

I died a little on the inside when I saw the sandwich...

[Maggie]

Here's another one:http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/25459...iture-Printing

Houzz.com is now allowing users to 3D print the furniture in pictures they see:

[Maggie]

How About The PickBot, 3D Guitar pick printer: http://line6.com/pickbot/

[Maggie]

Here is another one. Shapeways Teams with the US mint to print out real silver coins: http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archiv...ates-Mint.html

[Maggie]

And another one. Wow, the 3D printing jokes are really coming out. This is a story about the ability to 3D print strips of bacon: http://www.thedailymeal.com/3d-print...own-bacon-free

[Maggie]

Here's the best one yet:

Epson Has acquired Reprap lol :http://www.fabbaloo.com/blog/2014/4/...bbaloo/default

[Maggie]

How about the Leafly 3D Cannibis Printer that is now available: http://www.leafly.com/news/products/...nnabis-printer

[Feign]

Pretty sure that #3 there isn't an april fools. Though the buildings clearly weren't printed-in-place, and the roofs and trusses don't appear to be printed in most of them... And I can believe that they're around $4800 each rather than total. Small put important mistakes in the reporting.

...So pretty par for the course for 3Ders.org really.