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Moment Of Um

How do 3D printers work?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

3D printers are pretty awesome. Unlike the machines that print pictures or words on paper, 3D printers can create things you can hold in your hand – like fun-shaped food, cameras and even guitars. So how do they do it? We asked printing expert Robin Schwartzman from the University of Minnesota to help us find the answer. Got a question that jumps off the page? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll see if we can get an answer to materialize.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um. Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Zip Zebraman.

0:14.5

Um. I'm a newspaper zebra. I cut my teeth on the beat and managed to make a halfway decent living on this zany printing business.

0:24.6

What's black and white and red all over?

0:27.3

Off the record, me with a rash. Just kidding. It's the newspaper.

0:34.1

One moment. That's one of my reporters. Why, he's got ears big enough to cover every story in this town.

0:40.7

Hello?

0:42.0

This is Zebraman.

0:44.1

Ah yes, Earl Eiffunt, the elephant.

0:46.7

How's the story coming?

0:48.8

The story you're writing on those roller skating flamingos!

0:53.3

What do you mean you forgot about it?

0:55.5

You're an elephant. You never forget.

0:58.3

Okay, here's what you're going to do. Talk to some flamingos.

1:01.4

And listen here, Funt. Don't call back until you've got something juicy.

1:06.4

Sheesh. Where was I? Yeah. The news moves pretty fast, see?

1:12.0

That's why I love it.

1:14.1

You'll never know what you'll read about in tomorrow's paper.

1:17.0

But I'll tell you one thing,

1:18.4

they'll never improve on good old-fashioned two-dimensional printing.

1:23.1

You know, like these crisp flat sheets of newspaper

1:25.7

that get your hands all inky?

1:27.6

Oh, yes.

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