{"id":836,"date":"2006-02-11T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/statuettes-and-replication-devices\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:06","slug":"statuettes-and-replication-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/statuettes-and-replication-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Statuettes and Replication Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/versailles\/\">I blogged about wanting a machine which would create statuettes of me on demand<\/a>.  Such machines exist!  They are called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldaramaville.com\/\">Moldaramas<\/a>.  Alas, they are vintage and while it&#8217;s possible to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.replicationdevices.com\/index.html\">purchase them<\/a>, the listed price is about $10k.  Not including custom molds.  So without factoring the costs of molds, materials, electricity, etc, I would have to sell 2k statuettes at $5 each, before I would break even.  While I would say that $10 or even $20 was a fair price for a made-on-demand piece of art, I&#8217;m not sure the public at large would agree.<\/p>\n<p>What I need a is a 3d printer in a large glass case.  Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/09\/10\/1221251\">it&#8217;s possible to build a 3d printer out of legos<\/a>.  I think that such a machine would require a lot of maintenance. A real 3d printer is probably even more expensive than a plastic molding machine.  So, so far, legos are looking like the best bet.  Or, perhaps, I just want to do a run of a lot of statues and put them in a more normal vending machine.  The &#8220;risk&#8221; is that at the end of vending machine deployment, I have a lot of extra statues of myself.  Fortunately, this isn&#8217;t much of a risk.  Because, who could resist a statue of me?  Not me.<br \/>\nTags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Art\" rel=\"tag\">Art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I blogged about wanting a machine which would create statuettes of me on demand. Such machines exist! They are called Moldaramas. Alas, they are vintage and while it&#8217;s possible to purchase them, the listed price is about $10k. Not including custom molds. So without factoring the costs of molds, materials, electricity, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/statuettes-and-replication-devices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statuettes and Replication Devices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}