IS THE 3D PRINTER THE 4TH WONDER OF THE MODERN WORLD?

On 6th July 2018, Mr. and Mrs. Ramdanis from Nantes in  France became the first family to move into a 3D printed house... Yes you heard right "3D printed House". 

Every component of the house from the floors to the wall, to the ceiling, to the roof are all a product of the 3D printer. The walls are then filled with cement to make the house stronger. The house took approximately 54 hours to print and four months for fitting the doors, windows and interior decorations. (compare this to how long it took your father to finish his house in the village). Scientist believe that same four bedroom flat can be reprinted in less than 33 hours. (33 hours to build a house?)

Wow!!

Since the first 3D printer was invented in 2013, a lot has changed in the manufacturing process. Components of machines, equipments, tools and appliances which usually required a lot of manpower to produce multiple quantities now can easily be done with a 3D printer. This has gone a long way to minimize cost of production for several manufacturing companies. For instance, the 3D printed house of the Ramdanis cost £176,000 which is 20% less than the cost if the house were to be built using conventional methods. From the manufacturing of Vehicle parts, guns, Phone cases, TV cases, Radio components, computer parts, toys, parts of tools and appliances, gaming console, Utensils, home artificial decorations, 3D artworks, to building houses and prototype cars, even to some food; the 3D printer is doing wonders.

Th 3D printer works by the process of Additive manufacturing (AM), in which the blueprints of the item to be printed are programmed into the printer, then the printer replicates the blueprint by depositing layer by layer, the printing material, until it takes the shape of the item to be printed. 

The printing material may be Rubber, plastic, fused thermoplastics filaments, paper, butter, chocolate, or any other material which can be liquefied or granulated easily and becomes solid when cooled. The most commonly used material is the thermoplastics filaments  which has been used to print Guns, cars (prototype) and our 3D house. 

The type of material a printer can use determines the price of the printer. A 3D printer that prints with rubber can be bought for as low as $1,000... Yes it is that cheap.

A printer that can print a gun goes for about $35,000 on Amazon.com (convert to your local currency). Quite affordable right? Others ranges from $22,000 to $80,000.

Considering all these, it is clear that after Computers, Internet and Mobile Phones, 3D printers rank as the 4th wonder of the modern world. 

Is this Fact or Trash?