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Are you familiar with the printed AR-15 Receiver? The 1st one broke under stress but with the new pins its rather solid. The day of the reliably printed gun and magazine has come. I don't think it needs to be in every household to reach market penetration, knowing someone with one will be enough IMO. It doesn't need to appeal to the masses, early adopters are enough.
Yeah....people get on and sing the praises of printable tech, and when I ask for examples, I get a list of crap hoarder's buy to clutter up their homes. Wow, great, someone found a new way to make junk. Outstanding.Wow, what's with the rancor? Heck, just a couple years ago folks were paying $150-$200 for a Cricket (a device that prints scrapbook materials). And what dollar store will sell you a bust of you own children?
If I were to look at printing construction tools in earnest, I would begin with non-conductive electrician's hand tools.But if you want to talk useful, pretty much everything you listed is a possibility. Maybe not the framing hammer yet, but there's been good progress on printed chips and other computer components. Car parts are an interesting idea and worth exploring.
That would of course depend upon the type and characteristics of the plastic. Any plastics that are able to molded by a 3d printer probably will never meet stress and heat requirements to be actually used as a firearm. However, they would work quite well for the purpose of creating molds for forming other materials.
No, we also gave you examples like the 3D printed car, whose frame is as strong as steel, or a special part for a rocket used by NASA. You just have no desire to listen.Yeah....people get on and sing the praises of printable tech, and when I ask for examples, I get a list of crap hoarder's buy to clutter up their homes.
Right because every household needs to print a car and rocket parts. You said 3D tech was going to be a household item, yet you cannot name even one thing the average America household would want to make from a printer. Even dollar-store junk was a better example than anything you've offered up. Get a ****ing clue.No, we also gave you examples like the 3D printed car, whose frame is as strong as steel, or a special part for a rocket used by NASA. You just have no desire to listen.
Right because every household needs to print a car and rocket parts. You said 3D tech was going to be a household item, yet you cannot name even one thing the average America household would want to make from a printer. Even dollar-store junk was a better example than anything you've offered up. Get a ****ing clue.
...and then RabidAlpaca stomped his foot and slammed the door.Everything in your house that exists from plastic or metal, can be printed. People have given you examples over and over but you whine and cry like a little ****ing child.
"Why would anybody want anything from plastic or metal?" What a GREAT question Jerry, you get a gold sticker and get to move to the back of the short bus!
...and then RabidAlpaca stomped his foot and slammed the door.
Then he plugged in is earphones and let Justin Bieber drown out the sound of the adults talking in the other room.I guess I get annoyed when people bitch and moan and cry for ****ing pages. Then people try to explain things to them, give them examples of durable tools like adjustable wrenches that can be printed with today's technology, then they run off rambling about hoarders and nicknacks or some ****ing ****.
Seriously, you have no idea how to hold a conversation.I guess I get annoyed when people bitch and moan and cry for ****ing pages. Then people try to explain things to them, give them examples of durable tools like adjustable wrenches that can be printed with today's technology, then they run off rambling about hoarders and nicknacks or some ****ing ****.
His pillow soaking in the tears, RabidAlpaca sobbed:
Then he plugged in is earphones and let Justin Bieber drown out the sound of the adults talking in the other room.
Roofing? What do they make from the printer for roofing?Heck even the mid-sized roofing company my friend owns has one now.
Right because every household needs to print a car and rocket parts. You said 3D tech was going to be a household item, yet you cannot name even one thing the average America household would want to make from a printer. Even dollar-store junk was a better example than anything you've offered up. Get a ****ing clue.
It is said that "necessity is the mother of invention". While sometimes true, it is also true that in some cases invention is the mother of necessity. While you and others may not see a need for a tech item to become a household item in no ways proves that it should not or will not. Once it exists and is more widely available, far more uses for the technology will emerge. This has always held true for technological advances.
Such technology is of course a danger to corporatist as it would allow people to gain items that they value or need without having to pay something to existing corporations. It is also a danger to the socialist as people might actually learn to and be willing to do something for themselves instead of being a slave to society.
The only reason to denigrate and fear such a technology is if you are a staunch supporter of either the corporate slaver or the society slaver. For those of us who value freedom, such inventions and their availability are some of the greatest things mankind can create or offer. Empower the individual, not a corporation or some mythic definition of "society".
Right because every household needs to print a car and rocket parts. You said 3D tech was going to be a household item, yet you cannot name even one thing the average America household would want to make from a printer. Even dollar-store junk was a better example than anything you've offered up. Get a ****ing clue.
I'm not against 3D printing at all.I don't know why you're so emotionally set against 3D printing.
You think I'm the only person who doesn't own a 3D printer?
You're making claims without evidence. You've been hanging around heymarket for to long.
The 3D gun will not revolutionize Gun Control laws precisely because 3D tech in general hasn't caught on yet. The 3D gun will not revolutionize Gun Control laws precisely because 3D tech is still cost prohibitive to the average person today; just like every new tech is, from plasma TVs to DVD players and as someone mentioned earlier even cars. You may as well be selling iPhone apps in the 90s.
Please point out where I said you said that.Please point out where I said this?
Please point out where I said you said that.
I asked a question for clarity, and your response is to dodge the question and ask a question back. Very haymarket'ish.
You realize the "it" you're referring to is your own post, right? Ok.Considering your actions in this thread I would say it's worse. It is very "jerryish."
You realize the "it" you're referring to is your own post, right? Ok.
I'm not against 3D printing at all.
I just don't see how it's going to be in every home anytime soon, and, the 3D printed gun is an absolute failure, unlike the 3D printed house, organs, and the above cited 'magic arms'.
I see no company trying to market the 3D printer to the average person.
My point exactly.It's brand new technology that is still being developed.
Maybe I should look up the cost of the printers and materials. While probably more expensive than high-density foam and fiberglass, the end product would be more consistent and probably much better.
Doesn't look like anyone noticed, but a few pages back I did actually link to an open source DIY 3D printer. As I previously noted, it can't currently print at high enough density for gun (though it is coming), but it can certainly perform the functions you described needing. You will need to print in small parts and put them together like a jigsaw, or create a giant RepRap by modifying the design and construction of the printer.
I built a v1 RepRap about a year and a half ago, and the total cost came in at about $400. The v2 is hopefully going to be released within the next year or two, and it's already been announced that it will be able to print other materials, not just hard plastic.
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