3D-printed objects outgrow their printers

摘要

3D printing may be set to change the world by letting us make all sorts of bespoke objects, but there's one little problem: the printers can only print items smaller than themselves. Until now, that is. Skylar Tibbits at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Self-Assembly Lab and his colleague Marcelo Coelho have come up with a way for standard 3D printers to print out large objects.