3D PRINTING

[Nobunaga]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a very long time (technology related).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenbe ... ium=social

The article is about a handgun, because arguing about guns is all the rage today, but this technology looks totally kick ass. I'd never heard of this. Anybody here familiar with 3D printing?

[isaiah40]

Just that it's been around for a few years.

[john9blue]

i heard that staples is about to start selling 3-d printers.

the technology has been around for years but it's just recently begun to gain traction among the general population.

[Nobunaga]

i heard that staples is about to start selling 3-d printers.

the technology has been around for years but it's just recently begun to gain traction among the general population.

Maybe it'll be like VCRs were. When I was a kid, schools had them, they were huge. They started being sold to the public, several hundred dollars... years later, $50. Same way it went with DVD players.

[2dimes]

They were massively expensive at first, now they are priced a little more realistically for a regular person to buy.

There is a guy that brought one to the local model train show either last year or the year before. This year he had two. They still take a fairly longtime to build something but most people (especially me) are mesmerized to see it working at first.

I'm pretty sure even glocks are using a steel barrel so making a gun is only a problem if you want to use regular rounds.

[AndyDufresne]

Guns would be pretty low on my list of things to print.


--Andy

[Haggis_McMutton]

As has become my duty in 3D printing threads I'm gonna have to point out the RepRap project.
They're basically trying to build an open source 3D printer that's capable of printing copies of itself(some assembly required). So, just at the material costs you can print a printer for all your friends.

If this stuff takes off it could do to manufacturing what internet piracy is doing to music and films.

[2dimes]

Hey Andy, where would the Rabbit™ rate on the list?

If this stuff takes off it could do to manufacturing what internet piracy is doing to music and films.

Drive the price of resin through the roof?

[Phatscotty]

You can print guns, you can print exact replicas of one of a kind artifacts, you can even print food.

[BigBallinStalin]

As has become my duty in 3D printing threads I'm gonna have to point out the RepRap project.
They're basically trying to build an open source 3D printer that's capable of printing copies of itself(some assembly required). So, just at the material costs you can print a printer for all your friends.

If this stuff takes off it could do to manufacturing what internet piracy is doing to music and films.

Good.

[Woodruff]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a very long time (technology related).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenbe ... ium=social

The article is about a handgun, because arguing about guns is all the rage today, but this technology looks totally kick ass. I'd never heard of this. Anybody here familiar with 3D printing?

I'm not particularly familiar with it myself, although I've seen it happen. And yes...it's pretty damn cool.

[nietzsche]

It will be cool to play with one soon, to get into the design and understand the hardware and all that shit. Download some useless physibles and show around what you made. Then put it storage.

Then wait 5 years, buy one that is actually cheap and fast. And download one of the 32904239420934 physibles available in the net.

[Woodruff]

You can print guns, you can print exact replicas of one of a kind artifacts, you can even print food.

Food? I'm not sure it works that way, but would be VERY interested to see the source for that.

[john9blue]

3-d printing at the molecular level

it's coming

[Phatscotty]

[Night Strike]

A couple months ago I read an article in C&EN about university labs using 3D printers to print the common, oftentimes disposable, lab equipment in order to save a ton of money. Some labs even used them to relatively cheaply make custom equipment. 3D printers require being able to write computer codes, so there are research groups sharing programs online to make a database of 3D printer files to be used by other groups.

[Phatscotty]

[2dimes]

Here's a link to an article including a video of one of those guns being fired.

The weapon is crude and can potentially explode,

[AAFitz]

just read they printed a human ear and it has the electronics to make it work.

I think you can buy one now for $1500 or so, but its been a while since I saw that.

[Metsfanmax]

As has become my duty in 3D printing threads I'm gonna have to point out the RepRap project.
They're basically trying to build an open source 3D printer that's capable of printing copies of itself(some assembly required). So, just at the material costs you can print a printer for all your friends.

Have you not heard of Skynet?

*sigh*

[Woodruff]

You can print guns, you can print exact replicas of one of a kind artifacts, you can even print food.

Food? I'm not sure it works that way, but would be VERY interested to see the source for that.

Nothing?

[john9blue]

You can print guns, you can print exact replicas of one of a kind artifacts, you can even print food.

Food? I'm not sure it works that way, but would be VERY interested to see the source for that.

Nothing?

[warmonger1981]

The guy who made the firing .380 has to shut down his website. He has supposedly broken some laws according to the government.

[Woodruff]

The guy who made the firing .380 has to shut down his website. He has supposedly broken some laws according to the government.

Really? Some sort of licensing thing, I would guess?

[Nobunaga]

The government has stopped these bastards from sharing their 3D gun design! YEAH!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... department