The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday November 25th, 2021 – International day to eliminate violence against women
Are 3D Printers the future of assembly lines? by Joseph Gatt
The good: 3D printers can carve, paint, assemble, heat and cool, and assemble again, materials as diverse as textiles, rubber, china, metals (not quite yet for metals), chemicals, organic food components, plastic, tin, you name it.
The complicated: 3D printers demand a lot of expertise. Big brains need to play with the software to design and assemble products. As in design the product, insert the ingredients, code the software so the product components get assembled properly and get printed properly.
The bad: as of now, 3D printers, like paper printers, can only take one instruction at a time. You can’t really give 3D printers a series of products to carve and assemble and expect them to assemble each individual product in that order across time.
So, are 3D printers the future?
For what I’ve seen and heard, not really.
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Camera Hungry #poem by David Barger
“Laying on hard bedding
With examination covers spread
With wrinkle creases
Zagging from left to right
Looking like the arm of a corpse.”
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Screws & Chips 21#18 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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