3D printing was all the rave back around 2012. Now I don't hear anything about it.
I hate having to buy anything made out of plastic. I should be able to just print it with a 3D printing machine and the file for the 3D scan.
Why was this technology basically brought to a halt and not developed?
It seems technology is stalled since 2010.
Not much innovation going on.
Perhaps the motivation and incentive has been removed.
I’m not aware of any good ones. I think the issue is, you have to convert your model from an STL file, which is like a geodesic mesh, into a set of commands for the printer. If you have a crappy STL file, it doesn’t convert well and can jam your printer. I think going from a laser scan of an object to a “clean” mesh is pretty hard.