Some objects printed on the 3D printer.
Last October, the Director of the Dalhousie Libraries’ IT department, Marc Comeau, and two School of Information Management students, Riel Gallant and Michael Groenendyk, gave a presentation at the Access 2012 conference about 3D printing and scanning.
Riel and Mike, while still new library school students, came up with a proposal to bring 3D printing, 3D scanning and a 3D collection to the Dalhousie Libraries . Their idea came to fruition in the spring of 2012. This presentation offers a detailed look at 3D printing at the Dalhousie Libraries so far.
I watched an episode of CSI and they were printing 3-D guns that worked. This is neat technology. Not the gun part but being able to see things that are designed.