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Grow your own lab ware. Caution: might be illegal in Texas.

ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
edited 2012-04-19 08:45 in General Discussion
For all you 3-D printing fans and wetware geeks out there:

http://www.nature.com/news/homegrown-labware-made-with-3d-printer-1.10453

Since owning a boiler flask is illegal in Texas without a special permit and on-site inspection, this sort of thing might be illegal there, too.

Comments

  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,709
    edited 2012-04-17 22:36
    Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting.

    Can't help thinking 3D printing is going to help seed all sorts of interesting businesses.

    Its interesting to reflect on why "hobby level" 3D printing didn't take off earlier. From what I can see the technologies have been available for many years. Is it just the wide availability of 3D cad (sketchup, thingiverse etc) that caused it to suddenly take off?
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2012-04-18 04:53
    No, it was more 'convention'...

    'Everyone' knew that 3D printing was expensive, so nobody tried to build their own.
    It just needed someone to realise that 'Hey, this shouldn't be that difficult to hack together'...
  • Sal AmmoniacSal Ammoniac Posts: 213
    edited 2012-04-18 13:43
    ElectricAye wrote: »
    Since owning a boiler flask is illegal in Texas without a special permit and on-site inspection, this sort of thing might be illegal there, too.
    Of course it is! Everyone knows that only two kinds of people need these flasks: terrorists building bombs and druggies setting up meth labs.
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2012-04-18 14:37
    Texas scares me. A lot. Thank heavens for the PNW!
  • JLockeJLocke Posts: 354
    edited 2012-04-19 08:45
    User Name wrote: »
    Texas scares me. A lot. Thank heavens for the PNW!

    Me too. And I LIVE here! But then, Austin is different than most of the state (when the polilticians aren't in session here).
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