3D Printing Your Own Lawn Mower Sounds Like a Great Idea Until It Fails

After build a garage - sizedhigh - speed 3D printer called the Cheetah , Hans Fouche decided that he needed to in reality publish something utilitarian to convince people to buy his raw machine — particularly give its $ 10,000 monetary value tag . So as a trial impression - of - concept he created what has to be the world ’s first — and quite mayhap its last—3D - printed lawn mower .

Surprisingly his conception actually works , but that ’s probably because the lawn mower ’s most of import bit , like the motor and its spinning blade , were transplanted from an honest-to-god political machine . It ’s doubtlessly telling that Fouche ’s Cheetah 3-D printer was able to churn out all the portion require for the lawn mower in just nine hours , but given everything is made of credit card , you ca n’t help but feel a little uneasy about what might happen were it to give out .

So it ’s a full affair that while demoing the lawn mower he wore his protective pass - flops . [ 3DPrint.comviaGizmag ]