Hacking 3D Printers
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2015 -- Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 2015-01-16

Vik Olliver
http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30220/view_talk
Open 3D Printers print plastic, right? Well, mostly, but that's boring. What you probably want them to do is to print metal, make stuff out of chocolate, and strap lasers to their frickin' heads.

The whole point of making Open Source 3D printers was to provide a platform which could be hacked. A platform that could do whatever you wanted it to do. This presentation shows them not as extruders of plastic snail-trails, but as versatile 3D robots eager to grasp new tools and do your bidding with them.