3D printed gun

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Haruki

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Not sure if youse caught it but a couple of yanks printed out a bullet firing gun from that 3D printer.

It doesn't take much of a leap from my imagination that you can wear those google glasses, think up anything, fire it to the cloud and have it printed through your 3d printer before you get home. It's no leap of imagination. It can be done now.

You're probably of the same generation as me and you expected technology to work out 3 day working weeks, due to robots, and flying cars. It fkn didn't work out that way. Where is it working out? I'm, for one, scared. And a little bit excited.
 
Distributing the blueprints for free is n 'interesting' plan as well. 100k downloads so far. Once the printers are readily available it looks like it will be impossible to control the circulation of things ; US gun control debates look out of date before they've got anywhere.
 
Technology is in fact replacing a lot of jobs haruki-San; it may not be robots doing the dishes but the scifi visions were nt completely wrong. You can see in this 3d printing then end of many manufacturing jobs that remain.

It remains to be seen of the results are as idyllic as future visions envisaged!
 
I work at an ad agency and a 3D printing company is one of our bigger clients, so I've been all over this story. The 3D printed gun is pretty hopeless to be honest. It has some metal in it (so is no use to terrorists wanting to skip metal detectors), isn't very accurate and degrades easily. If you wanted to kill someone you'd be easier and cheaper getting an illegal gun.

Also, the technology is a lot of fun but it is still, essentially, a prototyping tool and way off replacing any sort of traditional manufacturing.
 
Stirlinghibee said:
very very fast!
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You have been banging on about this for a couple of years now S. I was excited then and I'm excited now :thumbgrin







Fukk off Shrink et al. Not what I meant by excited :coffee:
 
Hampden_Hibby said:
They print roads in Holland.
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That's nothing !! Their was a machine in the sixties that ground up rocks and trees as it moved over them, and flattened the ground before laying a six lane motorway behind it. Astonishingly, the motorway is complete to the inclusion of roadway markings, as well as road-side fences. Edinburgh could have done with a modified version for laying tramlines.

[video=youtube;LWcvEB6NYpA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWcvEB6NYpA[/video]
 
Dub said:
You have been banging on about this for a couple of years now S. I was excited then and I'm excited now :thumbgrin







Fukk off Shrink et al. Not what I meant by excited :coffee:
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Dub,

I am seeing the latest machines a few years before most folk. Breathtaking.

One of our commercial managers was reduced to a guppy frog when one printed a working pen in the shape , pattern and colour of the tie he was wearing!
 
How does it say that I liked Stirling's post up there when I didn't click anything? :dunno:



Not that I don't like his post but it was the first time I'd read it. Very strange :glassraise:
 
3D machines, road layers, Thunderbirds machine but WTF is this hing?

It looks fuckin MENTAL!!!!

I want a shot o' it, whatever it is :raisehat:


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beefy said:
3D machines, road layers, Thunderbirds machine but WTF is this hing?

It looks fuckin MENTAL!!!!

I want a shot o' it, whatever it is :raisehat:


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That was BIG GEORDIE in Northumberland in the 70's
Brought over from the USA in 1969 it was an open cast mining machine.
 
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