Blown my first paycheck from the new CAD/3D printing job on a resin printer plus gubbins. Seems logical. Always fancied playing with that option anyway.
There's just something particularly cool about making something solid with light, it's got a holodeck vibe to it. Plus there's just too many weird hacking options, like feeding it frames of a video to see what the result is.
making something solid with light... doesn't that also include (the currently most typical) dental fillings? :)
@robryk Yup, one of the main commercial applications of 3D resin printing!
@_thegeoff Huh, what? I meant that the fillings are usually made from thin (<2mm iirc) layers of a resin that the dentist shapes (or, for the first one, allows surface tension to shape) in a prepared hole in a tooth and solidifies with a UV lamp.
@robryk Yup, same principle as 3D resin printing. Or, when it comes to implants or gumshields or whatever, if you can get a decent scan you can print parts off to a fraction of a mm. Ditto hobbyist vacuum forming, where 1980s dentistry kit is still popular.