The 3-D Printer Thread
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But architectural designs can't be patented though? can they? [/B]Or are you saying just having knowledge and skill with this is important??
Not patents but they can be covered by copyright...like books and movies
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Prison Planet.com » DHS Memo Warns 3D Printed Guns May Be ‘Impossible’ to Stop
DHS Memo Warns 3D Printed Guns May Be ‘Impossible’ to Stop
“Is America ready for pat-downs at every event?”
Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
May 24, 2013
A new Department of Homeland Security bulletin warning of the security risks 3D printed guns pose may be setting the stage for 3D printer regulation or at the very least more intrusive pat downs when attending certain events.
According to Fox News, a DHS memo is being sent to various state and federal law enforcement agencies cautioning, “Limiting plastic guns may be impossible,” and that 3D guns pose “public safety risks.”
“Significant advances in three-dimensional (3D) printing capabilities, availability of free digital 3D printer files for firearms components, and difficulty regulating file sharing may present public safety risks from unqualified gun seekers who obtain or manufacture 3D printed guns,” warns the bulletin compiled by the Joint Regional Intelligence Center,” the memo states, as reported by Fox News.
“This is a serious threat,” a nervous law enforcement source reportedly told Fox, adding, “These could defeat magnetometers. The only security procedure to catch [the 3D firearms] is a pat down. Is America ready for pat-downs at every event?”
If this all sounds like you woke up in some real-life science fiction fantasy, allow me to bring you up to speed.
Towards the beginning of May, an Austin-based 3D printing group known as Defense Distributed announced it was in its final stages of testing their coup de grâce, a functional firearm produced almost entirely out of plastic parts manufactured by a 3D printer, which the group named the “Liberator.”
On May 6, the group began distributing schematics for the single-shot pistol freely online, allowing anyone connected to the Internet to download them from anywhere in the world. The deliberately open nature of the gun’s files led the State Department to issue a take-down notice to the group later that week claiming they had violated firearms export laws. However, the State Department was a day late and a dollar short as the files had already gone viral and by that time were already downloaded over 100,000 times.
Additionally, the DHS memo obtained by Fox specifically mentions Defense Distributed by name. A section of the memo is even dedicated to their Liberator gun design, stating:
“Magnetometers may fail to detect the Liberator, depending on device sensitivity. Though it is prohibited by federal law, manufacturers may deliberately omit the unnecessary metal insert, leaving only a small nail and ammunition as the sole metal component. Future designs could further reduce or eliminate metal entirely.
“Unqualified gun seekers may be able to acquire or manufacture their own Liberators with no background checks."
As Fox News reports, the DHS bulletin also warned “the firearms can be made without serial numbers or unique identifiers, hindering ballistics testing,” and that as 3D printers inevitably become more affordable, “even more sophisticated printed guns will become easier to acquire.”
Last week, UK newspaper The Daily Mail claimed to have “exposed” the “massive international security risk” of 3D guns when they cheekily produced their own plastic weapon and sneaked it on board a Eurostar train. Several of the paper’s readers, however, saw through their cunning ploy, noting they produced the firearm without the necessary metal firing pin, and didn’t attempt to smuggle ammunition. “Yes – but did your intern manage to get any bullets on the train… no. Typical DM nonsense!,” one savvy reader commented on their website.
Even prior to its creation, the 3D printed gun had its fair share of political opponents.
In December, Democrat NY Rep. Steve Israel called for the urgent renewal of legislation banning undetectable firearms set to expire at the end of this year. “With the advent of 3-D printers these guns are suddenly a real possibility, but the law Congress passed is set to expire next year. We should act now to give law enforcement authorities the power to stop the development of these weapons before they are as easy to come by as a Google search,” Rep. Israel stated in a press release on his House site.
Also, following the release and proliferation of the Liberator gun files, notorious gun grabber Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), attempted to persuade people, “Now anyone, a terrorist, someone who is mentally ill, a spousal abuser, a felon, can essentially open a gun factory in their garage…it must be stopped.”
Of course, the DHS bulletin is right on.
As Internet patrons can attest, once something is online, the toothpaste is out of the tube, so to speak, but will the advent of the 3D printed gun actually backfire on us?
The DHS is now actively engaged in painting this tremendous scientific advancement as a public threat, and in order to protect We the People from the big, bad 3D printed gun boogeyman, we must unquestionably hand them more control, give up more civil liberties and submit to more invasive pat-downs. Ah, the land of the free…
DHS Memo Warns 3D Printed Guns May Be ‘Impossible’ to Stop
“Is America ready for pat-downs at every event?”
Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
May 24, 2013
A new Department of Homeland Security bulletin warning of the security risks 3D printed guns pose may be setting the stage for 3D printer regulation or at the very least more intrusive pat downs when attending certain events.
According to Fox News, a DHS memo is being sent to various state and federal law enforcement agencies cautioning, “Limiting plastic guns may be impossible,” and that 3D guns pose “public safety risks.”
“Significant advances in three-dimensional (3D) printing capabilities, availability of free digital 3D printer files for firearms components, and difficulty regulating file sharing may present public safety risks from unqualified gun seekers who obtain or manufacture 3D printed guns,” warns the bulletin compiled by the Joint Regional Intelligence Center,” the memo states, as reported by Fox News.
“This is a serious threat,” a nervous law enforcement source reportedly told Fox, adding, “These could defeat magnetometers. The only security procedure to catch [the 3D firearms] is a pat down. Is America ready for pat-downs at every event?”
If this all sounds like you woke up in some real-life science fiction fantasy, allow me to bring you up to speed.
Towards the beginning of May, an Austin-based 3D printing group known as Defense Distributed announced it was in its final stages of testing their coup de grâce, a functional firearm produced almost entirely out of plastic parts manufactured by a 3D printer, which the group named the “Liberator.”
On May 6, the group began distributing schematics for the single-shot pistol freely online, allowing anyone connected to the Internet to download them from anywhere in the world. The deliberately open nature of the gun’s files led the State Department to issue a take-down notice to the group later that week claiming they had violated firearms export laws. However, the State Department was a day late and a dollar short as the files had already gone viral and by that time were already downloaded over 100,000 times.
Additionally, the DHS memo obtained by Fox specifically mentions Defense Distributed by name. A section of the memo is even dedicated to their Liberator gun design, stating:
“Magnetometers may fail to detect the Liberator, depending on device sensitivity. Though it is prohibited by federal law, manufacturers may deliberately omit the unnecessary metal insert, leaving only a small nail and ammunition as the sole metal component. Future designs could further reduce or eliminate metal entirely.
“Unqualified gun seekers may be able to acquire or manufacture their own Liberators with no background checks."
As Fox News reports, the DHS bulletin also warned “the firearms can be made without serial numbers or unique identifiers, hindering ballistics testing,” and that as 3D printers inevitably become more affordable, “even more sophisticated printed guns will become easier to acquire.”
Last week, UK newspaper The Daily Mail claimed to have “exposed” the “massive international security risk” of 3D guns when they cheekily produced their own plastic weapon and sneaked it on board a Eurostar train. Several of the paper’s readers, however, saw through their cunning ploy, noting they produced the firearm without the necessary metal firing pin, and didn’t attempt to smuggle ammunition. “Yes – but did your intern manage to get any bullets on the train… no. Typical DM nonsense!,” one savvy reader commented on their website.
Even prior to its creation, the 3D printed gun had its fair share of political opponents.
In December, Democrat NY Rep. Steve Israel called for the urgent renewal of legislation banning undetectable firearms set to expire at the end of this year. “With the advent of 3-D printers these guns are suddenly a real possibility, but the law Congress passed is set to expire next year. We should act now to give law enforcement authorities the power to stop the development of these weapons before they are as easy to come by as a Google search,” Rep. Israel stated in a press release on his House site.
Also, following the release and proliferation of the Liberator gun files, notorious gun grabber Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), attempted to persuade people, “Now anyone, a terrorist, someone who is mentally ill, a spousal abuser, a felon, can essentially open a gun factory in their garage…it must be stopped.”
Of course, the DHS bulletin is right on.
As Internet patrons can attest, once something is online, the toothpaste is out of the tube, so to speak, but will the advent of the 3D printed gun actually backfire on us?
The DHS is now actively engaged in painting this tremendous scientific advancement as a public threat, and in order to protect We the People from the big, bad 3D printed gun boogeyman, we must unquestionably hand them more control, give up more civil liberties and submit to more invasive pat-downs. Ah, the land of the free…
This shyt ain't stopping brehs. I'm planning on coppin one just because. The great thing about technology is its not the things you can make now, but the things they haven't thought of yet
3D printed movement is the most important one of the future only for the simple fact the government going to have a hard time regulating 3d guns
3d drones
3d explosives
Chris Mauro
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Spanish Thought
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Yeah we definitely gonna see some young men become millionaires with the right idea...
We will eventually all be thinking as we watch some special young man become rich... "Why didn't I think of that?"
We will eventually all be thinking as we watch some special young man become rich... "Why didn't I think of that?"
Star trek is almost upon us brehs
http://news.yahoo.com/3d-printers-could-reinvent-nasa-space-food-114705491.html
http://news.yahoo.com/3d-printers-could-reinvent-nasa-space-food-114705491.html
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Breakthrough in 3D-printing? MIT unveils device molding 10 materials at once
Breakthrough in 3D-printing? MIT unveils device molding 10 materials at once
Published time: 31 Aug, 2015 05:10
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A group of MIT scientists says they have developed the world’s first 3D-printer capable of making ready-to-use objects from 10 different materials at once. The new device, supplied with powerful software, boasts nearly human-free operation.
A research team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has devised what they call a better, cheaper and more user-friendly 3D-printer – MultiFab. The name is due to the unusually high number of materials that it can simultaneously utilize in the manufacturing process – other existing multi-printers are limited to only three at once.
In their study, presented at the August 9-13 SIGGRAPH 2015 conference, the researchers stressed that MultiFab is also much cheaper, while providing a “better” quality of product. The invention also requires significantly less human intervention than traditional 3-D printers, thanks to 3D-scanning software called “computer vision” that the team developed for the device.
The study has been published in the proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2015, as well as in the MIT CSAIL papers.
READ MORE: ‘Almost perfect’ battery from MIT will last longer, won’t degrade - and never blow up in your face
“A big part of the ability to reduce the cost is the 3-D scanning module,” Javier Ramos, an MIT CSAIL engineer and one of the co-authors of the study said, as quoted by Wired.
“More expensive printers have this mechanical system that sweeps every layer and makes sure it’s flat and properly laid out. We don’t need those extreme mechanical tolerances for this mechanism, given that we use this machine vision system, which is non-contact. It scans and corrects the layer, so we don’t need these very expensive mechanical components,” he added.
“The scanner we developed solves a few high-level problems, which are very high resolution, being able to scan a large area quickly, and then being able to scan materials that are transparent or have some translucency. Those are historically very hard materials to scan,” Ramos said.
A special bonus promised by the developers is easy multi-part printing. According to the MIT team, it will be possible to insert specific components – including sophisticated parts such as sensors and circuits – right into the printer. The machine would then incorporate them into the final product by recognizing the parts and continuing to print around them.
MultiFab is a complex system consisting of a central computer, 3D-scanners, and the printer itself. The computer constantly receives 3D-scans from a contactless ‘machine vision’ scanner with a resolution of 40 microns, or less than half the width of a human hair.
The machine compares each printed layer with the scans and detects errors, generating what the researchers call“correction mask.” This software technology frees users from the need to make all the corrections themselves. It also allows the printer to function without expensive mechanical systems that are traditionally installed in such devices to help the user do the fine-tuning.
“Right now, 3D printers are focused on printing form and objects for prototype, but the Holy Grail would be to print out things that are fully functional right out of the printer, combining multiple materials with many properties,” Ramos said as quoted by the IBTimes.
“With MultiFab, we integrate these two worlds of traditional manufacturing with 3D printing, and by putting them together, we can make a whole range of new objects that we are not currently able to make today,” he added.
he original software combined with the use of low-cost off-the-shelf components in development allowed MultiFab to come in at a relatively ‘cheap’ $7,000 price tag. Potentially comparable analogues cost up to $250,000, the MIT paper said.
The scientists managed to produce a wide range of objects, from optical and LED lenses and fabrics to fiber optics bundles and complex meta-materials. They also created a plastic holder for a metal razor blade and a perfectly-sized case printed around a smartphone, which had been put directly into the printer.
However, the device has its limitations. It is rather slow: printing a small model of a multicolor tire with MultiFab took almost a day and a half. Additionally, the scanner used in MultiFab still has problems with scanning certain types of surfaces such as mirrored finishes.
The team plans to continue their studies and aims to create complex functioning objects containing motors and actuators. The scientists hope their printer will be able to create advanced electronics and even robots in the future. MultiFab could offer new possibilities in electronics, medical imaging, micro-sensing, and telecommunications, they believe.
As for 3D-printing enthusiasts, designers, and small enterprises, the scientists say they will be able to go somewhere to print their models as easily as they go to a print shop to make photocopies on a Xerox machine – in the future.
“Picture someone who sells electric wine-openers, but doesn’t have $7,000 to buy a printer like this. In the future they could walk into a FedEx with a design and print out batches of their finished product at a reasonable price. For me, a practical use like that would be the ultimate dream,” Ramos said in the press-release.
Breakthrough in 3D-printing? MIT unveils device molding 10 materials at once
Published time: 31 Aug, 2015 05:10
Get short URL
A group of MIT scientists says they have developed the world’s first 3D-printer capable of making ready-to-use objects from 10 different materials at once. The new device, supplied with powerful software, boasts nearly human-free operation.
A research team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has devised what they call a better, cheaper and more user-friendly 3D-printer – MultiFab. The name is due to the unusually high number of materials that it can simultaneously utilize in the manufacturing process – other existing multi-printers are limited to only three at once.
In their study, presented at the August 9-13 SIGGRAPH 2015 conference, the researchers stressed that MultiFab is also much cheaper, while providing a “better” quality of product. The invention also requires significantly less human intervention than traditional 3-D printers, thanks to 3D-scanning software called “computer vision” that the team developed for the device.
The study has been published in the proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2015, as well as in the MIT CSAIL papers.
READ MORE: ‘Almost perfect’ battery from MIT will last longer, won’t degrade - and never blow up in your face
“A big part of the ability to reduce the cost is the 3-D scanning module,” Javier Ramos, an MIT CSAIL engineer and one of the co-authors of the study said, as quoted by Wired.
“More expensive printers have this mechanical system that sweeps every layer and makes sure it’s flat and properly laid out. We don’t need those extreme mechanical tolerances for this mechanism, given that we use this machine vision system, which is non-contact. It scans and corrects the layer, so we don’t need these very expensive mechanical components,” he added.
“The scanner we developed solves a few high-level problems, which are very high resolution, being able to scan a large area quickly, and then being able to scan materials that are transparent or have some translucency. Those are historically very hard materials to scan,” Ramos said.
A special bonus promised by the developers is easy multi-part printing. According to the MIT team, it will be possible to insert specific components – including sophisticated parts such as sensors and circuits – right into the printer. The machine would then incorporate them into the final product by recognizing the parts and continuing to print around them.
MultiFab is a complex system consisting of a central computer, 3D-scanners, and the printer itself. The computer constantly receives 3D-scans from a contactless ‘machine vision’ scanner with a resolution of 40 microns, or less than half the width of a human hair.
The machine compares each printed layer with the scans and detects errors, generating what the researchers call“correction mask.” This software technology frees users from the need to make all the corrections themselves. It also allows the printer to function without expensive mechanical systems that are traditionally installed in such devices to help the user do the fine-tuning.
“Right now, 3D printers are focused on printing form and objects for prototype, but the Holy Grail would be to print out things that are fully functional right out of the printer, combining multiple materials with many properties,” Ramos said as quoted by the IBTimes.
“With MultiFab, we integrate these two worlds of traditional manufacturing with 3D printing, and by putting them together, we can make a whole range of new objects that we are not currently able to make today,” he added.
he original software combined with the use of low-cost off-the-shelf components in development allowed MultiFab to come in at a relatively ‘cheap’ $7,000 price tag. Potentially comparable analogues cost up to $250,000, the MIT paper said.
The scientists managed to produce a wide range of objects, from optical and LED lenses and fabrics to fiber optics bundles and complex meta-materials. They also created a plastic holder for a metal razor blade and a perfectly-sized case printed around a smartphone, which had been put directly into the printer.
However, the device has its limitations. It is rather slow: printing a small model of a multicolor tire with MultiFab took almost a day and a half. Additionally, the scanner used in MultiFab still has problems with scanning certain types of surfaces such as mirrored finishes.
The team plans to continue their studies and aims to create complex functioning objects containing motors and actuators. The scientists hope their printer will be able to create advanced electronics and even robots in the future. MultiFab could offer new possibilities in electronics, medical imaging, micro-sensing, and telecommunications, they believe.
As for 3D-printing enthusiasts, designers, and small enterprises, the scientists say they will be able to go somewhere to print their models as easily as they go to a print shop to make photocopies on a Xerox machine – in the future.
“Picture someone who sells electric wine-openers, but doesn’t have $7,000 to buy a printer like this. In the future they could walk into a FedEx with a design and print out batches of their finished product at a reasonable price. For me, a practical use like that would be the ultimate dream,” Ramos said in the press-release.
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With This 3-D Printer, Objects Emerge From a Plastic Soup
With This 3-D Printer, Objects Emerge From a Plastic Soup
With This 3-D Printer, Objects Emerge From a Plastic Soup
It might be the future of manufacturing, but 3-D printing is built on a 2-D foundation: A MakerBot is essentially an inkjet printer that spits out plastic instead of ink. Keep printing in the same spot, over and over, and the layers will eventually form a 3-D object from the bottom up. But an outfit called Carbon3D is taking the opposite tack: Its new rig creates objects from the top down, in one continuous motion. It’s faster and eliminates the layering that can result in weak, jagged objects.
Inspired by the mercurial T-1000 bot from Terminator 2, University of North Carolina professor Joseph DeSimone wanted to make objects emerge from liquid. The process is based on a 30-year-old printing technology called stereolithography. It starts with a bath of liquid resin that hardens when exposed to UV light. A projector underneath delivers targeted blasts of UV to shape the form from below as the overhead platform lifts, drawing the object out of the soup.
The method has some limits. Oxygen inhibits the chemical reaction that solidifies the resin, slowing the process somewhat. But rather than fighting that limitation, DeSimone harnessed it. A sheet of glass between the projector and the resin is gas-permeable like a contact lens, and the oxygen keeps the resin from hardening too soon, before the object is complete.
1. Object-building platform
2. UV-curable liquid resin
3. Microthin layer of oxygenated resin
4. Oxygen-permeable glass
5. Ultraviolet-light projector
BROWN BIRD DESIGN
Even with this effect, the Carbon3D can print up to 100 times faster than leading 3-D and stereolithographic printers. In a video that ricocheted around the Internet after DeSimone presented it at TED, the device pulls a model of the Eiffel Tower out of the goo, as if it had just been sitting in the liquid all along.
Carbon3D has a team developing new materials for the printer. “We’re pioneering new resins for our machine and also working with the chemical industry to evolve what’s already available,” says Rob Schoeben, the company’s chief marketing and strategy officer. “As long as a material is in the polymer family, we should be able to do it.”
The machine has vast potential. Rather than warehousing and shipping car parts, technicians could make components for older models on the spot from designs stored in the cloud. Aeronautical engineers could print high-strength, low-weight lattice structures to replace, for example, components in passenger seats, lightening the payload and increasing fuel efficiency in planes. And Carbon3D could prove invaluable for medical applications: Custom molds could be made onsite at a dentist’s office, and stents or other emergency implants could be custom-printed on-demand in the hospital.
Right now, Carbon3D has prototypes running at auto behemoth Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, at an athletic apparel company, and at a special-effects house in San Fernando, California, with an eye to hitting the market in 2016. But it has no shape-shifting bots that are hell bent on destroy
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This House Was 3D-Printed In Under 24 Hours At A Cost Of Just $10,000 | Zero Hedge
What makes this 3-D printed building different from others is that they created a 3-D printer that was easily transportable. Unlike large 3-D printers inside of warehouses that produce a piece of a building, then all those parts are assembled at the construction site.
What makes this 3-D printed building different from others is that they created a 3-D printer that was easily transportable. Unlike large 3-D printers inside of warehouses that produce a piece of a building, then all those parts are assembled at the construction site.
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This is why gun control is meaningless.