the reason that your ball is 18$ and Wilson is 2000$ is the fact they used a diffrent material that makes the ball not dent when it bounces unlike yours. If you use thier material it has potential!
well I mean SLS vs FDM is more a cost of entry issue. that said for SLS the large empty volume creates a cost inefficiency since you cant pack the space as well and you cannot always re-use the unused material and often lose a large portion even if you can. basically a lot of the cost is actually due to how much waste and how much dedicated print volume it uses preventing cost offset.
It still wouldn’t have potential due to the fact that it has holes in it significantly slowing it down and making it worse and more unpredictable. It would be even worse than the jabulani
The funny thing is, that the company is selling a 3D basketball at the price of a 3D printer (most 3D printers are actually $200-900 range) so not only you could’ve bought a 3D printer to print it out, you could make even more things you think of.
@@harmvanmierlo3094the one he has is around $1,250 or something like that. Why I said around same price of a 3d printer at the beginning. You’ll need a 3D printer capable of doing different materials
Yeah, but unlike what this guy did, the 3D printed basketball isn't just the same shape and size. It has the same bounce and weight as a regular basketball as well. Let's see you print that in a 2000 dollar 3D printer. Since it's early stage, you're paying for the design and development as well. I want to see a proper 3D printed football now, no way it's gonna cost 18 dollars.
I think this is really not bad. Of course you can't really compare it to a real football or to the basketball but I still think that it is amazing that it's kinda working.
I was scrolling through Bambu handy one day and I just saw an airless basketball, airless soccer ball, airless football, airless tennis ball, airless volleyball, even airless ping pong ball
maybe this isnt the best idea since we rely on the weight of the ball and how hard the outer bal would be, sometimes the bouncier is not the best for us thats why we tend to use a ball filled with so much air
