Print your own medicine - Lee Cronin. Kim Dotcom gets mega-scared of 3D printed guns, pulls plans from site. The US government pulled the plans for Defense Distributed's 3D printed gun after two days, but not before it was downloaded 100,000 times. It took Kim Dotcom, founder of online file sharing service Mega, a little bit longer, but the internet mogul has deleted all public links to the weapon's blueprints. Dotcom, who is fighting the US government's attempts to extradite him from his mansion home in New Zealand to face piracy charges, told Radio New Zealand that the possibilities of the weapon were scary. "I think it's a serious threat to security of the community. I think it's scary that people can print 3D guns that can't even be detected by metal detectors ... This should concern everybody," he said. Private links still available But despite Dotcom's direct intervention on public links to the gun's blueprints, the Mega site still hosts privately stored versions of the Blueprints online, according to Radio NZ.
Via: Radio NZ. US Government shuts down 3D gun manufacturer. DALLAS, May 9, 2013 - The revolutionary concept of 3-D printed firearms has been building momentum for months now. Online observers, innovators, investors and the generally curious celebrated as the first completely 3-D printed handgun became a reality. Since the blueprint for “The Liberator” hit the web, the file was downloaded more than 100,000 times in a few days. Today, the government shut it down. SEE RELATED: Sunday Slant: 3D printable gun, a genie best kept in its bottle? Cody Wilson, the 3-D gunsmith, libertarian law student, and founder of the non-profit innovation outlet, Defense Distributed, broke the bad news in a tweet to his followers. #DEFCAD has gone dark at the request of the Department of Defense Trade Controls. According to an earlier interview, Wilson received a letter from the US Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance, Enforcement Division (DTCC/END) which demanded the group remove the content in question from public domain.
Now You Can Buy 3D Printers From Staples. Staples just became a little more cutting edge. The office supply chain announced Friday that it is now selling 3D printers through its website and will start selling 3D printers in select stores by the end of next month. Staples is touting itself as the first "major U.S. retailer" to sell the product. Staples, which announced in November that it planned to bring the devices to its European stores, will be selling the Cube 3D Printer from 3D Systems for $1,299.
The printer has built-in WiFi and comes with more than two dozen 3D design templates, with more available to download online. Selling 3D printer at Staples will likely help the technology to reach more of a mass market, although the printers may end up losing some of their cool factor when placed in the same store that sells fax machines and surge protectors. Would you consider buying one of these 3D printers for $1,299? Image courtesy of 3D Systems. Someone Out There Is 3D-Printing Faces With Your Discarded DNA Scraps. Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing"
3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen by WobbleWorks LLC. Plastic film is future of 3-D on-the-go. Ditch the 3D glasses. Thanks to a simple plastic filter, mobile device users can now view unprecedented, distortion-free, brilliant 3D content with the naked eye. This latest innovation from Temasek Polytechnic and A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering is the first ever glasses-free 3D accessory that can display content in both portrait and landscape mode, and measures less than 0.1 mm in thickness.
"The filter is essentially a piece of plastic film with about half a million perfectly shaped lenses engineered onto its surface using IMRE's proprietary nanoimprinting technology," said Dr Jaslyn Law, the IMRE scientist who worked with TP on the nanoimprinting R&D since 2010 to enhance the film's smoothness, clarity and transparency compared to other films in the market. "Our breakthrough is a game-changing piece of plastic that simply fits onto current smartphones or tablets to give users breathtaking 3D graphics on their smart devices.
3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production | Autopia. Engineer Jim Kor and his design for the Urbee 2. Photo: Sara Payne Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles.
If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called the Urbee 2 and it could revolutionize parts manufacturing while creating a cottage industry of small-batch automakers intent on challenging the status quo. Urbee’s approach to maximum miles per gallon starts with lightweight construction – something that 3-D printing is particularly well suited for. Jim Kor is the engineering brains behind the Urbee. “We thought long and hard about doing a second one,” he says of the Urbee. Kor and his team built the three-wheel, two-passenger vehicle at RedEye, an on-demand 3-D printing facility. Photo: Sara Payne “We’re calling it race car safety,” Kor says. How 3D Printing Actually Works. Now that 3D printing — the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs — is available and affordable to individual consumers, it's piqued a lot of interest across the tech space in the past few years.
From scale models, gifts and clothing to prosthetic limbs, hearing aids and the prospect of 3D-printed homes, the possibilities seem endless. The concept of 3D printing is by no means new, however. Chuck Hull invented and patented stereolithography (also known as solid imaging) in the mid-1980s, when he founded 3D Systems, Inc. Since then, advances in the technology have been (and continue to be) made, including the size of the printers themselves, the materials they can use and more. But how do 3D printers actually work? Designing an Idea It all starts with a concept. Whichever program you choose, you're able to create a virtual blueprint of the object you want to print. The 3D Printing Process Now for the fun part. Pushing Innovation. Click, Print, Gun: 3D printed Firearms and what they mean for Society. Patient has 75 per cent of his skull replaced by 3D-printed implant | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews.
3D Bio-Printed Meat is No Longer Science Fiction. Dita Von Teese předvedla první šaty z 3D tiskárny - iDNES.cz. 9. března 2013 16:23 Americká burleskní umělkyně Dita Von Teese jako první oblékla šaty z látky potištěné nejmodernější 3D tiskárnou a posetou krystaly. Předvedla je v New Yorku. Dita Von Teese v šatech z 3D tiskárny | foto: Albert Sanchez Černou róbu vyrobila tiskárna Shapeways na nejvyspělejší 3D tiskárně, která vytváří prostorové objekty nanášením několika vrstev. Róbu sešitou ze 17 potištěných kusů a posetou 13 tisíci krystaly od značky Swarovski navrhl Michael Schmidt. "Samotné šaty jsem navrhoval na iPadu, dolaďovali jsme je přes Skype, poslal jsem je elektronicky Francisovi a ten je poslal do tiskárny," citoval Schmidta server Foxnews.com.
The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures. Forget those pesky 3D printers that require software and the knowledge of 3D modeling and behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that draws in three dimensions in real time. Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space. Sound like magic? Well it certainly looks like it, watch the video above to see the thing in action. The 3Doodler was designed by Boston-based company WobbleWorks who recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the miraculous little devices that utilizes a special plastic which is heated and instantly cooled to form solid structures as you draw.
I don’t know about you but for me this might have just won the most impulsive Kickstarter purchase in history. Check it out. Rebuttal to 3D Printing Revolution: the Complex Reality. By Adam B. Levine | Mar.6, 2013 I respect MAKE and the niche they've carved out for themselves, but after the hopes-and-dreams crusher I just read, well.... Sometimes we all take ourselves a little too seriously. The existing hobbyist-friendly additive prototyping methods tend to produce parts from a very narrow choice of materials, all of which exhibit fairly poor mechanical characteristics; there are no signs that this will change in the coming years.... ...In popular view, 3D printers are a tool that will enable us to directly make almost anything; this way of thinking is exemplified by the commercial arms race to deliver FDM machines that print in color.
But this pursuit may be misguided: as it is, both 3D printing and CNC machining tends to be more useful for producing tooling patterns – that is, shapes that serve as an input to another, more specialized manufacturing process carried later on. It's so funny to see a forward looking publication thinking in such an antiquated way. “Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds. Cody Wilson, like many Texan gunsmiths, is fast-talkin’ and fast-shootin’—but unlike his predecessors in the Lone Star State, he’s got 3D printing technology to help him with his craft.
Wilson’s nonprofit organization, Defense Distributed, released a video this week showing a gun firing off over 600 rounds—illustrating what is likely to be the first wave of semi-automatic and automatic weapons produced by the additive manufacturing process. Last year, his group famously demonstrated that it could use a 3D-printed “lower” for an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle—but the gun failed after six rounds. Now, after some re-tooling, Defense Distributed has shown that it has fixed the design flaws and a gun using its lower can seemingly fire for quite a while.
(The AR-15 is the civilian version of the military M16 rifle.) The lower, or "lower receiver" part of a firearm, is the crucial part that contains all of the gun's operating parts, including the trigger group and the magazine port. Totally legal. Praskne kryt za 20 korun pro Lumii 820? Vyzkoušeli jsme možnosti 3D tisku. Nokia prodává model Lumia 820, který jsme nedávno recenzovali, v několika barevných provedeních.
Ostatně křiklavé barvy jsou často spojeny s většinou windows phone telefonů. Finský výrobce nedávno zveřejnil soubory pro 3D tiskárnu, díky nimž je možné si na Lumii 820 vyrobit vlastní kryt. Ačkoliv jde kvůli ceně tiskáren prozatím spíše o technologický výstřelek, je to ukázka budoucích trendů. Kryt se rozhodli vyrobit již kolegové z portálu The Verge a my jsme samozřejmě nemohli zůstat pozadu. Zde je nutno dodat, že manipulace se zadním krytem Lumie 820 je jedním z nejpracnějších ze všech telefonů, s nimiž jsme se za posledních pár let setkali. My jsme pro tisk použili technologii FDM na tiskárně Easy3DMaker. "Přestože jsou tyto tiskárny dostupné i pro domácí uživatele, nejsou pro takovouto výrobu nejvhodnější.
Podívejte se, jak funguje 3D tiskárna. Zkušební nasazení Samotné nasazování krytu proběhlo prakticky na výbornou. Vážným zádrhelem se však stala tlačítka po stranách přístroje. Hitem v módním průmyslu se stává 3D tisk. Módní svět je v některých ohledech nevypočitatelný – po vlně nostalgie a retrománie se nyní upíná k novým technologiím a očekává třetí průmyslovou revoluci spojenou s digitalizací. Spolupracovnice ČESKÉ POZICE a historička módy Jana Máchalová identifikovala tři současné hity, které momentálně hýbou módním průmyslem. V uplynulých 20 letech zaznamenaly USA i Evropa velký pokles průmyslové výroby. Udržely se jen provozy vysoce automatizované nebo ty, které zachránila v době hospodářské krize dlouholetá špičková řemeslná tradice. USA byly ve 20. století největší průmyslovou velmocí, nyní je to Čína. Plně robotizovat tak náročný produkt, jako jsou šaty, není snadnéZ těchto důvodů nyní výrobci v rámci nové průmyslové revoluce sní sen o robotizaci a automatizaci, která by umožnila provozům pracovat sedm dní v týdnu 24 hodin denně.
Hit číslo 1: 3D tisk Při použití plně integrované 3D technologie je cena za jeden kus stejná jako za tisícVelkým hitem je technologie 3D. Hit číslo 2: Body scanner. Leaders Of The 3D Printing Revolution. 3D Printing Can Turbocharge Mashup Culture. 3D Printing Can Turbocharge Mashup Culture This is a guest post by Public Knowledge Vice President Michael Weinberg Mashups are one of the great art forms of our time. Although remixes, mashups, sampling, and collage predate the internet by decades (if not centuries), easy, accessible digital tools have allowed anyone to remix videos, music, and photographs into their own original works. Mashup culture has produced fantastic music , critical video, and delightful cultural artifacts of all kinds.
However, for all of its successes, mashups are ultimately limited by the nature of their source material. Enter 3D printing. One of the best examples of this so far is the Free Universal Construction Kit. The Free Universal Construction Kit is just the beginning when it comes to remixing things. One of the keys to this next generation of mashups will be a strong understanding of how copyright interacts with physical objects.
Budeme 3D tisknout základny na Měsíci? Zvětšit obrázek 3D tištěná základna na Měsíci. Kredit: ESA/Foster + Partners. Vše nasvědčuje tomu, že konečně plánujeme stavby na Měsíci a hledáme ty správné technologie, s nimž se tam uchytíme. Není vyloučeno, že jednou takovou bude i 3D tisk, který momentálně velkolepě proniká všude možně. Do projektu se zapojili i architekti mezinárodní společnosti Foster + Partners, která má na svědomí stavby jako spaceport Virgin Galactic, kampus společnosti Apple či mezinárodní letiště v Kuvajtu. Podle Xaviera De Kesteliera z Foster + Partners Specialist Modelling Group vývojáři zamýšlejí rodící se technologii nejprve testovat v extrémních prostředích na Zemi, kterých tu koneckonců máme docela dost.
Zvětšit obrázek Ukázkový 1,5 tunový blok 3D tištěného materiálu. Zvětšit obrázek 3D tištěný model 3D tištěné základny. Britská firma Monolit pro vývoj 3D tisku na Měsíci poskytla zařízení D-Shape, což je vlastně 3D tiskárna fungující v architektonickém měřítku. Literatura. The first 3D-printed human stem cells. The shortage of transplantable organs has spawned a fascinating science and market.
A liver, for example, is often split among two recipients, while for a cystic fibrosis patient in need of two lungs, it is technically preferable to just swap out both the heart and lungs as a combo unit. The extra heart can then be domino donated to a third party. Bioprinting complete organs en masse is a tough proposition because the identity expressed by each component cell must be individually programmed.
Then the cells need to be knitted together in a developmentally sound fashion. Researchers in Scotland, land of Dolly, the first cloned mammal, have recently demonstrated the ability to print human embryonic stem cells. It was announced at the end of last year, that Autodesk, the makers of CAD software like AutoCAD, would be partnering with a new startup by the name of Organovo to make 3D organ printing a reality. So, in 20 years, will replacement organs be printed, grown, or built? 3D printed moon building designs revealed.
Equipment Focus: 3D Material Printing. 3D printing developed at Warwick — News.