Star Trek-like Replicator? Electron Beam Device Makes Metal Part...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 11/10/2009 - 21:45

A group of engineers working on a novel manufacturing technique at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., have come up with a new twist on the popular old saying about dreaming and doing: "If you can slice it, we can build it." That's because layers mean everything to the environmentally-friendly construction process called Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, or EBF3, and its operation sounds like something straight out of science fiction.

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