About 6 months ago, an article in Autoweek talked about a Ferrari P4 that was cloned in China. A US trade lawyer happened to be walking thru the shop and saw the car. He happened to be a Ferrari collector and knew there were only 3 P4's in existance, and the owners of all 3, yet there was a 4th sitting in front of him. Turned out to be a copy that further investigation showed it was made with a similar machine that works with metal instead.

 

das bad as*

 

I use both of those machines at work, I build at least a part a week. For us engineer types it's nice to have the stuff all in-house. We don't use the laser scanner much since we aren't copying parts to often.


3D Model of an 8 bay ruggedized charger for Li-Ion batteries



Real Parts

 

That is probably the coolest thing ever! I can't beleive it makes those moving parts, and it actually works! I would love to make myself a plastic turbo, i think that would be cool.

 

thats insane!

 

Finally had a chance to sit down and watch this video - what cool technology that could very well be priceless (as Jay notes, they haven't made a lot of those parts for nearly a century!). The "printer" reminded me of cellular printing or organ printing: link

 

that's crazy

 

It is pretty slick. Good post.