The State Department has asked Defense Distributed to take down its controversial 3D-printed gun blueprint. “I immediately complied and I’ve taken down the files,” said the group’s Cody Wilson. “But this is a much bigger deal than guns. It has implications for the freedom of the web.”
This has definitely been our most well-received download. I don’t think any of us predicted it would be this much.Defense Distributed-affiliated developer Haroon Khalid • Discussing the success of the controversial group’s 3D-printed gun blueprints, which have been downloaded 100,000 times since they were released over the weekend. The distribution method isn’t without controversy, either: The group’s files are being hosted on Kim Dotcom’s Mega service. One member of Congress, Rep. Steve Israel, wants to ban such devices.
Defense Distributed has come out with a new gun magazine, which they kindly named after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who just signed a ban on large gun magazines in the state. “He [Cuomo] wants to be associated with these magazines,” Cody Wilson, the 24-year-old law student leading the group’s efforts, told TPM. “Lets make that association permanent.”
With the potential to produce replacement organs, 3D printers could one day revolutionize medicine and save countless lives. Unfortunately, this same technology could also be used to “print” deadly viruses, meth lab components and weapons…
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Background checks and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print high-capacity magazines at home. 3D printing is a new technology that shows great promise, but also requires new guidelines. Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search.Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) • In a statement regarding the planned introduction of legislation which bans using 3D printing to print high-capacity magazines — something which a liberty-minded tech group called Defense Distributed has been all over in recent weeks with their Wiki Weapon project. The group actually had a fairly blunt response to Israel’s legislation: “Good f@&!ing luck.” This may be a first — an attempt to regulate 3D printing by a governmental body — so this will be interesting to watch.
To answer your question, here’s what a 3D-printed vinyl record sounds like. (More details as to how it was made over this way.)
Pretty soon you’ll be able to print your 3D projects at the local Staples.
A new service called “Staples Easy 3D” will allow customers to upload their designs to Staples’ website, then pick up the printed objects at their local office supply megastore, or have them shipped to their home or business — not unlike the photo- and document-printing service the company already offers.
The project was announced today at Euromold 2012 by 3-D printer manufacturer Mcor Technologies, who is partnering with Staples to provide its new Iris printers for the service.
An interesting decision, though one we suspect will work out for the company based on the increasing popularity of 3D printing thanks to companies like MakerBot Industries. Between this and the introduction of more Dunder Mifflin office supplies, we think we might be spending a little more time at this particular office supply chain in the future.
Even if you think that Cody Wilson should be allowed to move forward with the Wiki Weapon project, is anybody really surprised that the beginning stages of such a plan would involve cancelled leases and an ATF investigation? Honestly, we feel like he’s pretty lucky he didn’t get a knock on the door from Homeland Security (or any other federal agency for that matter) until he started asking questions of his own. source
Two words: “Robot Kinko’s.” That’s what a MIT robotics team led by Daniela Rus pitching, and her team just scored a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to see if the idea’s feasible or not. Would you go to a store and build your own robot with the help of easy-to-use templates, and pick up the 3D printing a couple days later? Sounds neat, whatever the case may be.
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Coffee cups + 3D printing = Awesome: The concept of 3D printing, a still-in-its infancy field that promises to make it easier than ever to build crap in your home, is still at a point where people are simply trying to figure out what you can do with it. Here’s what one design studio came up with — a bunch of one-of-a-kind coffee cups, a new one each day for a month, with bizarre and fascinating designs. This one is obviously awesome, but there are numerous concepts which rule — a coffee cup designed to look distressed, a cup designed to look like a low-res 3D model, an espresso cup that’s impossible to keep standing, and so on. But before you get ahead of yourself in buying one for your loved one, you better hope they like coffee — since (given the nature of 3D printing) they’re not mass-produced, they cost roughly $40-80 each.
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