3D Printing

“Generally factories are really efficient when they are large and centralized and three D printers can be very useful for adapting drones to Various mission sets, but you'd only be, like, the airframe or a payload adapter. What we're trying to solve for is the …”

“For rocket engines, it's almost like a cheat code. It's so easy to make a high performance rocket engine with three D printing. Because the rocket injectors and the cooling passages are pretty small and complex. So to make a rocket engine by machining and asse…”

“I think making things will be much simpler in the world of just in time manufacturing and three D printing and additive and resin printing and obviously like products, just humanoid robotics, dreadnought, lights off factories, making anything on demand and thr…”

“And so there are other things that I think will improve as we think about like the future, like the cost of building a home has got to come down. Right. And I think things like robotics three D printing, you know, advancements in material science will help wit…”

“To this day, we still send three D printed parts to our customers. So we have these brackets that go on our On our monitor box that actually allow bungee cords to attach them to trees for maple.”

“Well, everyone in the industry is moving to bamboo. And so we did the same bamboo labs. They're cheap. They're really fast, very, very you know, repeatable. So two parts done at two different times will look the exact same. And everyone's sort of struggling to…”

“Printing enabled Raptor, which I would argue is the mo one of the most amazing and high performance rocket engines ever in the history of humanity.”

“We were using it to make small things that were already mass produced very affordably. Like a lot of times people were, three printing coffee mugs and spoons and stuff. It's like, we already have a lot of those and they're made really cheaply. It's like a, it …”

“Yeah, you got things that look expensive. But are the same price to print as a straight line.”

“A steak is the most complicated food product that we eat, and there is no food technology that exists that can reach to this level of complexity, and three-D printing has a lot of disadvantages, a lot, but complexity is the number one benefit. There's no added…”

“There are actually, there are still companies existent today that take the approach of we should three-D print everything, and We very early on made the calculated decision that, three printing is an enabler and you have to use it in the right places in the ri…”

“Realizing that that's not going to be the way that's not going to be the way forever. And like this kind of like three D printing, you know, like sort of basically manufacturing just in time at the end point and cutting out a whole bunch of these like factorie…”

“Yeah, and I think one thing that's very unique about three D printing is that you can print the simplest objects to the most complex objects. It's all the same to the three D printing system. So you can print things that before could never have been manufactur…”

“Ultimately this could become not just kind of a cottage industry, but it, it's the way I think mainstream products are going. I mean, you look at products that Nike offers where you can personalize all sorts of aspects of your shoe. It's not three printed per …”

“So I think in three D printing now, it's going to be like kind of rip, Mod fab, right? You know, like how do you scan in a design or take a design that's already there? How do you modify it? And then how do you fabricate it?”

“Yeah, I think if you look at the long, long term, I actually would be short on FedEx and UPS. You know, like, rather than having to ship things around the world on airplanes, it wouldn't be great just to download the design and print it out, you know, right wh…”

“I'm starting to see signs that are going to be these kind of industrial clusters, kind of like a little kibbutz of companies doing these kind of artisanal products. And so you're going to have people in the same, under the same roof, you know, like these littl…”

“Today, any 500 dollar computer can run incredibly sophisticated CAD. And on top of that, the software is Free. And then you kind of add in rapid prototyping like three D printing, and you're kind of timing for your first unit, plus things like Arduino, make it…”

“Only quite recently, especially with the announcement of HP and their new three D printer, and as a result, the reaction of other companies like Toshiba, Canon is now involved in the print, in three D printing, and also new startups are popping up like desktop…”

“I don't see the jewelry industry embracing three D printing at all. I don't see the toy industry three embracing three D printing at all.”

“This is a product that does basically the same, but I think it's actually a much more versatile long-term technology than three D printing in terms of what it can do.”