[araes]

From my own perspective, the interesting part of the carbon3D thing was that apparently the real money was in dental and orthodontics - an area a lot of venture and 3D printing probably does not delve into all that often.

Admittedly, there's apparently an industry I had never looked at that's actually kind of interesting, with metal and resin printed dentures. [1]

Such as, the first company on that list, which I never read about on Tom's or Ars or other 3D printing sites, Zortrax [2], apparently makes a semi-cheap printer that does bioresin (can you get that for home use? RepRap bioresin spools?) for $2k. $2k seems cheap compared to the carbon3D ones, they're apparently $50k-100k. Could reasonably print my own dentures for $2k.

[1] https://all3dp.com/1/dental-3d-printing-a-guide-for-professi...

[2] https://zortrax.com/applications/digital-dentistry/

[tdudhhu]

"which I never read about on Tom's or Ars"

Aren't those consumer websites?

The 3D printing industry is over 50 years old. And I believe metal printing has the biggest market. But those printers are super expensive. Not something an avarage consumer is going to buy.

By the way: I don't think you can buy a Carbon printer. You need a service contract so you can lease them.

[araes]

Yeah, consumer websites, although already pretty far out in "consumer". Out of 8B humans, not sure how many read Tom's.

I might buy a $2000 printer. That's at least in the range I might think about. People buy those $1000 engravers. There's a whole market just around selling the wood supplies, designs, and final products [1] from them. Especially when you can turn your $1000 purchase into a engraving hustle business.

[1] https://www.etsy.com/market/glowforge_wood?explicit=1&ref=gu...