Board 8 > I need to talk to three people about 3D Printers by tonight. Need some ideas.

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Have to be legit sources, and I've been contacting professors since yesterday morning to absolutely no avail. Need to get creative here and time is almost completely gone. Any ideas, B8?

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Talk to some other students?

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go to a printer shop?

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From: SpeedYoshi | #003
go to a printer shop?

Don't know of any place that sells 3D Printers within driving distance. >_>

From: Anagram | #002
Talk to some other students?

Not a bad idea, but it'd take a ton of time (more than I have) to go there, get the info, and get back, so I want to exhaust everything I can do from here before resorting to that.

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what about a place like kinko's that uses 3d printers?

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From: SpeedYoshi | #005
what about a place like kinko's that uses 3d printers?

Good idea but the closest one is miles away.
I suppose I could try calling a few, I'm willing to try just about anything at this point.

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you can email my mom
shes an architect
she'll probably tell you about what a pain in the ass they are

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Can't you call the manufacturers and get a rep to talk to you?

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BT with the victory!

Well, tried contacting a bunch of major manufacturers and everyone's out.
This is going to be even more impossible now that it's Sunday. Bad enough that all of the professors are gone for the weekend, but now it seems everyone else is too. X_X

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Oh hey, crazy wavelength thing.
I only tried three so I guess I'll try some more.

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Literally impossible to contact a human being, be it professor or corporate person. Augh.

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im getting a little tempted to actually send you my mom's email address
she has to use them to print out prototypes for building designs.

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At this point I'm honestly wondering if I could spin that to the paper as a legit source.
Like, you're not supposed to use friends or anything, but if I say that someone I knew knew someone, who are they to say anything? >_>

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Holy cow, nobody is in any building on Sunday. Never going to do anything for the paper on the weekend again.

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for the paper?
is this for a newspaper or something?

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From: special_sauce | #015
for the paper?
is this for a newspaper or something?

School paper, but yeah.

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....O_o weird that you'd need 3 interviews. you'd think news articles and some of the source material on 3d printing would be sufficient for a school paper.

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From: Wanglicious | #017
....O_o weird that you'd need 3 interviews. you'd think news articles and some of the source material on 3d printing would be sufficient for a school paper.

Yeah, the paper requires three live sources, even for features like this. Go figure. (Schools NEWSpaper that is, mind that I said "yeah" to the newspaper thing.)
I meditated on it for a bit and I'm kinda out of panic-mode, just gonna chill and wake up at like 5 tomorrow or w/e and call all of these places before my noon deadline. It'll be a pain but it's better than agonizing right now about having nobody to call.
Of course, if you fine gents think of something that I haven't, who can possibly be reached on a Sunday, feel free to suggest it!

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well what do these sources need to be exactly. people that work with the tech? people that've used it?

cause i'm pretty sure we've got the latter around here.

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From: Wanglicious | #019
well what do these sources need to be exactly. people that work with the tech? people that've used it?

cause i'm pretty sure we've got the latter around here.

I'm trying to go beyond just using it, I'd rather have someone in a position to comment on how important it is to various industries. (Art, medicine, engineering, manufacturing)
That's why I busted my chops trying to contact professors the last couple days, though today I tried to contact manufacturers and transplant organizations. For all my efforts today and yesterday I still have yet to talk to an actual person on the phone, these places REALLY clear out on the weekend I guess.

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CO might be of some use to you in that case. CrimsonOcean. architecture major around here and iirc the printers were brought over to her university relatively recently. at the least, she's someone who plans to be in a field where it's gonna matter.

(there was a 3D printer topic not too long ago, i assume this is the inspiration for this article too.)

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Ho hum, I might just do that.
I'll have to think of a way to get around the "I got this source from the internets" thing, but it's not like I've got any more promising leads right now. >_> Many thanks.

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