MIT Researcher Demos Self-Assembling Objects 69
iONiUM writes "From the article: 'Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing but scientists at MIT are already working on an upgrade: 4D printing. At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.' There could be many applications for this. Definitely a cool step forward."
Pictures and video of the process.
Hasn't anyone watched SG-1 or Atlantis? (Score:5, Funny)
Grey goo (Score:2, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our self-assembling overlords.
Re:4D printing? (Score:2, Funny)
this message is from the future - and we did
Re:Basic test to qualify as a 4D printer... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh that's easy.
You have to pulverize obsidian and smelt it with lead to get hardened glass, then assemble tin, hardened glass, and diamonds to get the tesseract frame. Then you have to melt down some ender pearls and fill the frame with the molten ender to get an unattuned tesseract. Then you pile in a servo, some silver ingots, and some lead, copper, tin, or electrum ingots to round out the exact tesseract you need.
Wait... you were talking about Minecraft mods, weren't you? No? Damn...
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