Instant Plugs

[ProfessorM]

we machine ABS and HDPE a lot for oceanographic industry so it will last fine.
The opposite of machining these machines. Build up from nothing instead of a block or round of stock and machining away the excess. Eventually it will be the future, long after I am gone from the trade. I have seen a larger one make some pretty neat, fully functional stuff. I have handled a wrench made by a larger unit out of plastic and it is fully functional. Pretty cool. Imagine what the highly secret government suppliers have that we don't know about.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

Imagine what the highly secret government suppliers have that we don't know about.

I have been reading on Ray kurzweil's newsletter about nanoscale technologies that are building things on an atomic scale

things so small - we cannot even see them....with our human eyes

this is way beyond the technology faked in star trek

Scientists now have a 3d printer capable of printing things made out of carbon nano tubes infinitesimally small ... combine that with coatings of graphene (think 100% electrical conductivity) and the possibilities are absolutely endless.

Don't know if you watch the tv show "elementary" a spin off
of Sherlock Holmes hanging out with Dr. Watson played by the
quite sexy Lucy Lou ... but they had mechanical mosquito's
that were very intimidating ....