Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner.

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence 3d printing

blockchain virtual reality and more okay good morning this is tracy merdo with future tech

podcast and today i want to thank my special guest ben maloute the the creative manager of Alpha Objects, Inc.,

the parent company of Lovebots, industry leaders in developing and manufacturing open-desper printers

who are based in Loveland, Colorado.

Good morning, Ben.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Good morning, Tracy.

Thanks for having me.

So three-dimensional printing, of course, is becoming, you know, really the technology to watch,

and I think it's just kind of blowing all of us away as to what this is, what's to come.

What do you find, well, let's first start off off with those who may not be familiar,

what actually is 3D printing and how does it work?

Sure, sure. 3D printing is really a blanket term that covers several technologies.

The common core between all those technologies is that you're creating an object via an additive process.

So our printers, for example, work by melting a plastic filament or plastic line

and depositing that layer by layer and creating an object.

Some 3D printers work by using lasers or light to cure like a plastic resin layer by layer.

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