3D printing - Fancy 'printing' a working gun at home?!

[Wozza]

3D printing is crazy, isn't it?

The whole idea of electronically sending an item to anyone, anywhere in the world, and 'printing' that solid object it in your home or office? Mental.

Imagine if you could print a working gun.

Oh, no need to imagine: The Worlds First 3D-Printed Gun

This technology is moving FAST.

 

[Munkfish]

Incredible stuff, my friends a Desgin teacher at some posh school and they have one of these, truley fantastic the things it can do.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I am fascinated by 3d printing, it's going to be huge.

 

[Gazwag]

How would it print the insides

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Anyone who has worked in Mechanical Engineering will understand that to create something like that, it would first need to machined in metal first.

One they have the two halves they then go in to an injection moulding machine which then creates the mould.

Once this technology comes down in price and these 3D printers are capable of producing 1000's of components a day, I wonder if there will be any need for machining.

These 3d printers are bloody amazing.

 

[Seagull Steve]

I know this will make me look stupid, but I just don't get it.

 

[leigull]

We have one at work, pretty incredible just watching it work and seeing the results

 

[brightn'ove]

How would it print the insides

It prints layers, so it would include the insides

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I know this will make me look stupid, but I just don't get it.

What ? 3d printing or guns ?

 

[Wozza]

I know this will make me look stupid, but I just don't get it.

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[Papak]

Wait till the technology allows the machines to replicate themselves.

 

[Seagull Steve]

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Thank you Wozza, things are clearer now.

 

[Gary Leeds]

Wait till the technology allows the machines to replicate themselves.

They already do, the test software for most of the 3d printers will print a spare set of cogs and gears for the printer that's printing it incase the originals wear out.

And I know the cost is high at the moment but remember when colour laser printers first came out and cost well over a grand, or CD burners where blank CDs cost £20 each?, the more people start to use them the cheaper they will become, I think within 2 years a decent 3d printer will be available off the shelf for the home for under £200 and when they do I will be in the queue to get one

 

[Worthingite]

3D printing is crazy, isn't it?

The whole idea of electronically sending an item to anyone, anywhere in the world, and 'printing' that solid object it in your home or office? Mental.

Imagine if you could print a working gun.

Oh, no need to imagine: The Worlds First 3D-Printed Gun

This technology is moving FAST.

That's crazy!!! In theory you could replicate ANYTHING In 30 years time, with the advancement of technology, we could forget having to "buy" players, we could just print them off. 3D printing off a Pele in his prime, a Bobby Moore being replicated for the Albion defence?!?!

 

[Wozza]

Yep, in 10 years or less, we could all have one of these in our gardens:

 

[Gazwag]

It prints layers, so it would include the insides

Bearing in mind my design expertise is a solid intercity 125 in woodwork when I was 13, does it print it in paper then or whatever material you need and would you have to print the parts and then put it together.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Bearing in mind my design expertise is a solid intercity 125 in woodwork when I was 13, does it print it in paper then or whatever material you need and would you have to print the parts and then put it together.

I know little, but as far as I know given the level they are at currently, they mostly print components, apart from the very simplest of things, e.g. I saw a working refs whistle "printed" the other day, without need for putting anything together, but I suspect at the mo, anything more complicated woud be components - but not for long.

I need a new kidney made from my own tissue, but I think I may have to wait a while for that one.

 

[Husty]

How would it print the insides

My limited understanding of it is that it prints hundreds of thousands of very thin layers on top of each other to produce a 3d object, so the insides can be printed too.

 

[itszamora]

This is absolutely mind-boggling. I knew the technology was being developed, but I had no idea it was already so advanced.

 

[Wozza]

Bearing in mind my design expertise is a solid intercity 125 in woodwork when I was 13, does it print it in paper then or whatever material you need and would you have to print the parts and then put it together.

Watch the video above - and keep in mind that's a cheap, consumer model!