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  • 2014-06-07 The Dreck Begins
  • 2014-06-08 Western Swing: The hotbed of understated alcoholism disguised as sexism, disguised as humour.
  • 2014-06-09 Wine in Country Music
  • 2014-06-09 Bicycle tyre valve research.
  • 2014-06-10 Replacing deteriorated dowels on tea trolley
  • 2014-06-10 Book Finished: 3D Printing For Dummies
  • 2014-06-14 If Tabloid Editors wrote song titles...
  • 2014-06-15 Tom Corbett: A Trip To The Moon
  • 2015-06-19 The Crookes Radiometer
  • 2015-07-19 Movie seen: Amy
  • 2015-07-31 Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Concert
  • 2015-08-12 Galloping galaxies! Careering through the Cosmos
  • 2015-08-15 Under the sea, out in space, the omnipresent Flying Spaghetti Monster
  • 2015-08-16 The Scientific Process: Until Proven Otherwise
  • 2015-08-23 Trying to get what I want from a computer.
  • 2015-08-24 Shedding some light on my work process
  • 2015-09-03 You Can't Fight City Hall? My Try for a Safe Path
  • 2015-09-16 My old 10 inch LP - Carlos Montoya - Fiesta Flamenca Nixa SLPY 140
  • 2015-09-20 The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
  • 2015-09-28 Turf War
  • 2015-10-12 Astoundingly Obvious Facts
  • 2015-10-15 Tearjerkers and classic schmaltz
  • 2015-10-19 An Exploration of non-Flamenco Rumba
  • 2015-10-31 Absolutely Awesome Accuracy: The Cosmic Constancy of the Latest Laser-locked Clock
  • 2015-11-16 The Futility of Ranking Cultures
  • 2015-11-10 The Art of Memory, or just a mess?
  • 2015-11-20 We're trying to get it sorted: - What was your name again?
  • 2015-11-26 What's Up? Blue Origin Have Got It Down!
  • 2015-12-06 E-Voting: - Democratic Innovation, Or Dumb Idea?
  • 2015-12-13 Anti-jokes
  • 2015-12-23 SpaceX Success: Booster Brought Back To Base!
  • 2016-01-01 Marimbula: The Giant Thumb Piano
  • 2016-01-10 Who Says a Dictionary Has To Be Dry?
  • 2016-01-10B Pastafarian Celebrant in NZ
  • 2016-01-17 1951 + 65 = 2016
  • 2016-02-08 Urban Renewal: Preservation or Progress?
  • 2015-02-21 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Not Where People Think You Are
  • 2016-03-07 Dumbness Proliferates
  • 2016-03-13 Solar Eclipse: - A Different Viewpoint
  • 2016-03-20 Beware! Deep Thought Ahead
  • 2016-03-28 The Rolling Stones - Who Did They Cover?
  • 2016-04-10 On Average, Girls And Boys ARE Different
  • 2016-04-16 ANOTHER SpaceX Success: Booster Brought Back To Barge!
  • 2016-04-24 It's the Hurdy Gurdy, man.
  • 2016-05-02 Another Time, Another Pace: The Musical Rework
  • 2016-05-04 20th Anniversary of Departure for TOSOTW
  • 2016-05-07 SpaceX Barge Ahead With Yet Another Success
  • 2016-05-14 Electrifying Reading: E-Books & E-Readers
  • 2016-05-21 Hyperloop: Another Elon Musk Concept Moves Forward
  • 2016-05-22 Some Fun Things with Wood And Strings
  • 2016-05-28 Rhythm & Blues: Thirty Unearthed Gems 1949 - 1965
  • 2016-06-06 What Is a Blues? The Perils of Binary Thinking
  • 2016-06-18 I Was Thinking in the Shower....
  • 2016-06-26 Food for the Soul: The Women Get Cookin'
  • 2016-07-02 Book Finished: The Invention of Nature
  • 2016-07-18 Book Finished: the address book
  • 2016-07-24 SpaceX Pull Off Yet Another Booster Return
  • 2016-07-31 Book Finished: LANGUAGE The Cultural Tool
  • 2016-08-06 Rocket Science in Simple Terms
  • 2016-08-20 Book Finished: Deadly Beautiful
  • 2016-09-26 Book finished: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • 2016-10-31 Book finished: Erewhon by Samuel Butler
  • 2016-11-21 A Microwave Oven Rescued
  • 2017-01-02 Book finished: The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
  • 2017-01-03 Book finished: Toledo, the Story of an Old Spanish Capital
  • 2017-02-05 Book finished: Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
  • 2017-03-05 Sarah Jarosz Awarded Two Grammies
  • 2017-04-02 SpaceX: - Second Time First!
  • 2017-04-24 Tony Joe White: Storyteller of the Southern Swamps
  • 2017-05-01 Book finished: The Prince

Book Finished: 3D Printing For Dummies

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               I am interested in this as something to take up in retirement

     I remember reading about 3D printing as it developed in the late Eighties, then the early self-reproducing 3D printing efforts, with people building their own, and trying to hone the design to something that can be produced by a 3D printer! They were open-source University-originated designs.

    I was very surprised to find the current state of the art is astounding and still improving rapidly.


    For those who have not encountered 3D printing, think of how 2D printing was revolutionised by the desktop printer. Suddenly anyone could compose and print without the need for publishers and giant printing presses which made small jobs uneconomic.

    3D printers make actual 3D objects, (Not 3D-looking pictures) some of which cannot be made any other way. They can do it cheaply and quickly, without the need to tool up an engineering plant of drills, lathes, stampers, and casting and assembly machinery.

Starter kits are as cheap as $1,500.

    I could risk copyright issues making up a slideshow of 3D printed objects, but is just as easy for the reader to look it up for themselves HERE
as a Google image search.

   This book goes into the history, the legalities, and full details on building and setting up a 3D printer. Too much detail for the casual reader, though it is a good insight into what is involved.


    I found it quite inspiring, the detail wasn't daunting, and it made feel quite keen to have a go, even if I don't build my own machine, although that is something I'd like to have a go at too.


Read as an e-book borrowed from the library. This is why I bought a Kobo;
I can read e-books borrowed for free from my local City Council's public libraries, Waitakere Libraries.
This includes very recent publications, the only limitation being there is a time-out function on the files, but you can always borrow it again straight away, or re-join the queue if it has been reserved.


Retailers of the competing Kindle e-reader don't tell people they cannot access library books with it.
The well-known Kindle from Amazon will not accept the .epub format used by public libraries.
But the Kindle does make it "real easy" to be led off to buy Amazon's e-books on line!


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