For those of you who are still unsure of whether or not home 3D printing will take off, here’s a study, originally published in Mechatronics, that uses a lot of academic language to say that it will. Wittbrodt, et al., researchers at Michigan Technical University[1] have analyzed the time and economic costs of purchasing, assembling, and printing 20 household items with a Prusa Mendel 3D printer and compared those costs with purchasing the same items through vendors from Google Shopping, ultimately determining that a 3D printer could save US homes from $300 to $2,000 a year.…
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