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The leFabShop crew from France decided to showcase 3d printer installed in an alectric car to demonstrate how some future repairman could 3d print replacement parts in his vehicle.
I don't know how would such setup be stabilized to compensate for car vibration road bumps, acceleration, breaking etc. but if there is a demand there will be a solution.



by leFabShop team.

We believe that in a near future, cars will be electric, self-driven & equipped for advanced field operations. Your plumber will be able to produce spare-parts in his vehicle, some goods will be produced on demand in the delivery truck.
crédits :
original idea : Bertier Luyt
scenario & post-prod : Tatiana Reinhard
architect & 3D model : Samuel Bernier
image & light : Georges de Genevraye
with the help of : Renault Creative People Lab
3D printer : MakerBot Replicator 2 Personnal 3D Printer
car : Renault ZOE
music : interlude - pulp funktion 3
thanks : Omar & team le FabShop
© le FabShop 2013
www.lefabshop.fr / info@lefabshop.fr

3d printer in your trunk - it's like a replicator on Enterprise - you don't need to carry anything with you EVER!

The electric car featured in this video is Renault Zoe and Renault has some crazy scheme where they rent you the battery for it ... I'm loosing faith in electric cars ... bu that is a different topic ...
You can see the review of Zoe in the video bellow jut to get idea what it is. For you USA natives, YES cars in Europe are generally much smaller.

Some creative designs and some epic fails ... lots of fun ...

At the 2013 Industrial Design Society of America International Conference Inventables hosted Launch Day. This was a design contest where designers from all over the world were invited to design a 3D printed pinewood derby style car. The top 3 teams measured by farthest distance, most spectacular crash, and most beautiful design won a 3D printer from Inventables. The contest drew over 100 entries from all over the world. The top 10 cars were selected and the race is featured in this video.

They refer to Ivan as "recreational 3d printer". For some reason I find this hilarious.





From video description:

Ivan Aucklander Sentch shows how to use a 3D printer to create a 1961 Aston Martin DB4. Three dimensional printers have built guns, bikinis, shoes, egg cups and iPhone cases. But a man from New Zealand has taken the next big thing to the next level. A print car.
It's not just a car that is a replica of a 1961 Aston Martin DB4.
Solidoodle using a 3D printer $ 500 Ivan Sentch, a programmer of Auckland, printing a car mold.
"I've been printing since January and I have printed about 72 percent of everything," said Sentch.
Sentch last project was a Ferrari 250 GTO replica kit car. But to do the same with the Aston Martin would have cost about $ 15,000.
So far it has spent about $ 2,000 on the plastic over the initial price of the printer.
"For me it was a solution to a problem of costs," he said.
This is the first attempt at 3D printing Sentch. And because the printer is not large enough to print large pieces once, Sentch printed about 2,500 separate sections of the car body.
You set the design to print in the morning before work and at night before bed. A movement that initially thought it was a bit dangerous because the hot end of melting plastic thread reaches 200 degrees.
"It was a pretty big learning curve's Been printing find out and get some consistency," he said.
Once completed, it will make a fiberglass mold of printing and the setting for the engine, electrical system, suspension and transmission of a 1993 Nissan Skyline. He then will have to build the interior.
The project is a labor of love that reaches its second day of work and family life and Sentch not wait to have the mold ready for another 18 months. He will not drive the car for another five years.
"There are months of months of preparation before you can do that in a mold. Then have to sand back to a glassy finish," he said.
Sentch believed to be at least one or two decades before 3D printing is used regularly for useful projects.
"It seems that at this time people use to make plastic things that are not really needed," he said.

Video via:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNewsinsightss?feature=watch

... just you wait ...








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