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== With tinkering, 3D printing can push limits 1 ==

<html>The Objet Eden 260V prints objects, not paper.
A light moved back and forth inside the Stratasys Objet Eden 260V, blue as the one on R2D2’s rotating head. Inside, it was cooking plastic. Layer after layer of polymer was turning a file you see on a screen into an object you hold in your hand.
No big deal to industrial designers who’ve seen some form of this for years. To me, it’s magic.
The Eden 260V is one of several 3D printers that sit unceremoniously at the back of , the tinkerer’s wonderland in Fremont, as if they weren’t out to change the world.
The Eden 260V costs over $100,000, but the game-changing MakerBot Replicator 2X, sitting on a table a few feet away, is just $2,799. A display case showed off the machines products — everything from detailed figurines to a one-piece replica bike chain, its bendy parts in working order.
Looking at them for the first time last week, I didn’t know what to see. Are these newly cheaper,[http://www.bestmol.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=50910 Bellevue waterfront rules making waves], more accessible machines agents of a new industrial revolution? The in-home “desktop manufacturing” that will let us print a new light bulb at home? Or are they too slow, too geeky and too complicated to be more than glorified tchotchke makers?
The people who’d know are too busy improving them to ask.
Google engineer Johann Rocholl spent some of the latter part of his Fourth of July where you’ll find him many Thursdays — the  in Capitol Hill. That’s where Seattle 3D-printing hobbyists like him gather weekly to test the limits of the technology.
Rocholl s Kossel printer.
Rocholl isn’t into printing things so much as he’s into the printers themselves. MakerBot, which Stratasys acquired this spring for $40 million (and whose CEO, Bre Pettis, once led a paper-airplane-making contest when he lived in Seattle) makes the best- known low-cost machines around.
But it’s got company. Every month,[http://www.gxshxny.com/bbs/home.php?mod=space&uid=33053 ], at least, someone posts their own design for a 3D printer online, whether it’s for sale,[http://www.u9919.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=41445 Fair festivities begin Sunday], or, as in Rocholl’s case, for pay-it-forward fun.
His first printer, the , was a hit on maker hub Thingiverse last year. Now he’s got a waiting list to fill. He  for his latest printer, the , to anyone who, once they assemble the printer,[http://www.hgl088.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=85009 Beavercreek graduate opens studio], uses it to print parts for two more.
Rocholl has a great job and three kids. But when a colleague showed him an old MakerBot a couple years ago, improvements seemed so obvious that he couldn’t help but take time to tinker. “There was low-hanging fruit all over the place,” he said.
For Joe Heitzeberg, the idea that 3D printers could be handy in the home in just a few years is nuts. “You’re going to get dollar-store crap that took 12 hours to print and cost a ton,” he said.
But as newly minted “makers,” Heitzeberg and fellow entrepreneur Ethan Lowry, co-creator of the Urbanspoon food app, can testify to the printers’ prototyping power. Just nine hours after the two launched Poppy, a device that turns your iPhone into a 3D camera, it . By Friday, it had raised $125,000.
Without their cheap but sturdy 3D-printed prototype, Heitzeberg and Lowry would’ve had to pony up for a market-ready model without having gotten feedback on a anything more than a cardboard cutout.
Joe Heitzeberg and Ethan Lowry made a 3D printed prototype of their 3D phone camera, Poppy,[http://www.amaozhu.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=25577 Mariners pummeled by Red Sox in opener], before launching the product on Kickstarter.
Like Rocholl, Heitzeberg is hooked — not on the printers but on the services. Sites like  serve as 3D-print shops and marketplaces for 3D files. They’re making things easier for people who want to print, but not easy enough. Heitzeberg wouldn’t say how, but through his and Lowry’s company, Hack Things, he’s going to work in the space.
“If you get in as a maker and entrepreneur, you realize how hard it is, and that means opportunity,” he said.
Every week as a kid I’d watch “Star Trek: The Next Generation” on TV with my parents. And every week, I’d see someone on the Enterprise order a dish or a drink from a machine in a wall.
I know 3D printers are not going to do that for me anytime soon, but even if they re just aimed that way, I m excited. We ve already printed food, guns, and DNA, Staples just became the first major U.S. retailer to sell a 3D printer last month, and what can I say? I have faith in the tinkerers.
That day last week at Makerhaus, dozens of them teamed up for a competition called . One team used the 3D printers to design smarter earbuds. Another printed small items to lock zippers in place. A third — the winner — printed a prototype wristband and disc for Magneeto,[http://bbs.youjoy.tw/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=5587465 Brandt's glove lifts Scouts], a removable device that attaches to barbells and counts your reps.
I ll take limits, but not excuses. Keep cooking, big gray box. I m expecting big things.</html>

== Dragons lose thriller in extra innings ==

<html><head><title>html模版</title></head><body>Dragons lose thriller in extra innings</br>7/2/2013 12:47:00 AMDragons lose thriller in extra innings

South Bend, Ind. Mike Lang s bunt single keyed a 12th inning rally as the South Bend Silver Hawks defeated the Dayton Dragons 5-4 on Monday night to complete a sweep of the three-game series.

South Bend did not pick up a base hit after Lang s one-out triple in the fourth inning until he came to the plate with two outs and the bases empty in the 12th.

Lang bunted for a base hit and stole second on the first pitch to put the winning run in scoring position. Pedro Ruiz followed with a line drive single to right field. Dayton s Beau Amaral charged the ball and made a strong accurate throw home, but Lang s slide beat the tag as South Bend celebrated a walk-off win.

Dragons pitchers allowed no hits and only one base runner over a seven inning stretch from the fifth through the 11th before the Silver Hawks scored in the 12th. Dragons reliever Jesus Adames (1-2) surrendered the run to absorb the loss.

The Dragons scored two runs in the top of the first inning to take an early lead, getting one run on a wild pitch and another on a run-scoring single by Junior Arias.

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The Dragons threatened to take the lead in the ninth inning when Joe Hudson walked and Tanner Rahier singled him to second with no one out. But Humberto Valor failed to get a bunt down and then grounded into a double play, and Brent Peterson struck out to end the threat.

Dragons starting pitcher Nick Travieso tossed a career-high six innings and allowed four runs on five hits with three walks and six strikeouts.

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The Dragons collected eight hits. Amaral and Arias each had two. Dragons reliever Kyle McMyne worked an electrifying two innings, retiring all six batters he faced while notching four strikeouts.

The Dragons (5-7) travel to Bowling Green, Kentucky to battle the Bowling Green Hot Rods starting Tuesday at 8:05 p.m. (EDT).

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