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Let’s say you have a large sprinkler and drip system in your front and back yards. In a couple of years, with the ability to create custom chips, you can design your own timers to water your plants and monitor the water usage. You could also create your own custom alarms, tying together several different alarms from different manufacturers into a single system. You could build your own drones, increase the efficiency of your HVAC, create custom TV and audio systems, and set up personal computer networks that are virtually hack-proof.
Small business owners will be able to create custom “smart” chips that run their printers, paint-sprayers, cow-milking machines, auto diagnostics, restaurant inventory, and computer peripherals. The list is endless for almost any specific operation that can be automated and monitored.
Prototyping and creating anything that uses a circuit board will take hours instead of weeks. Custom electronics devices for medical diagnostics will come online years quicker (if the FDA bureaucrats don’t screw it up). Replacement parts with a circuit, such as those used in appliances, cars, houses, motors, pumps, farms, and manufacturing, will become available faster and cheaper.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/a_revolution_in_3d_printing.html
January 17, 2015
A revolution in 3-D printing
By Lee DeCovnick
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