Last week we did a piece on LeTourneau University, who was in the process of setting up to break the Guinness World Record for
Yesterday, well over 100 students gathered at the Solheim Arena, most with printers in hand, to try and break this somewhat odd, yet very intriguing record.
“LeTourneau University is big on hands-on projects,” said freshman Brooks Jarrett, who is among the roughly 90 percent of Friday’s participants who built their devices in the fall. “It’s definitely pretty exciting.”
There were a total of 108 printers in the arena, as the students worked feverishly to get each one of those printers working properly. In the end, a grand total of 102 Printers were able to simultaneously print out the same object, a cog with the date melted into its design, shattering the old record of 39, and putting LeTourneau University and their students in the record books.
Several independent sources were on hand to verify the record, and it may take as long as 12 weeks for the record to officially be recognized. In the meantime though, another group is already claiming to have broken the record that was just set yesterday.
Taking nothing away from the tremendous accomplishments of LeTourneau University, Jeff Moe, CEO of Aleph Objects, Inc., makers of LulzBot 3D printers, claims that their company has 135 3D printers within their facility. He stated that he can easily
“In the video we are printing RepRap parts for our next generation TAZ. We’ve printed hundreds of thousands of parts. Printing some medallions simultaneously won’t be hard–in fact, it will be easier.If you really want to see the nitty gritty of what we are printing, we have a LibreOffice spreadsheet of our current production batch here.
The very fact that the day a record within the 3D printing industry is to be broken, another group comes forth claiming to be able to break that record, clearly shows the rapid pace of growth within the market. Stay tuned to the 3DPrintBoard Guinness Thread for updates on this developing story, and congrats to LeTourneau University.