Like It Or Not, 3D Printing Will Probably Be Legislated
As the race – and it’s basically a race – to release as many 3D-printed gun parts as possible heats up, it’s never been harder for me to come down on the side of the “Freedom To Tinker” crowd. Last weekend Defense Distributed, a group dedicated to releasing plans for a 3D printed gun, posted a video and description of their 3D-printed AR-15 thirty-round magazine. The video, which is, unnecessarily, full of snarky vitriol, shows that, on some level, the 3D printed gun isn’t very far off. The problem with childish displays of firepower coupled with “How’s that national conversation going?” Rep. The law would “make it illegal to manufacture, own, transport, buy, or sell any firearm or magazine that is homemade and not detectable by metal detector and/or does not present an accurate image when put through an x-ray machine.” Politics, as we’ve learned, is woefully unprepared to handle major technological advancement.
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DOJ began a PR push last week to find legislative traction for a set of proposed bills that would criminalize the individual production of rifle receivers and magazines with 3D printers. Sections 4 and 5 of the proposed House bill directly criminalize 3D printed receivers and magazines, and mandate an arbitrary amount of metal be part of their fabrication. Beyond suffering from fatal Due Process and GCA problems, the bill’s prohibitions are not extended to manufacturers because (hint) there isn’t actually a security issue at stake. The bad faith and fraud required to hide this from the current public discussion is of course par for the course. The media organs have dutifully repeated the official account. The NRA used to say “no inroads.” Ceterum censeo
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How DRM will infest the 3D printing revolution
While you were busy getting yourself all worked up and declaring 3D printing the beginning of a new age, one of the most maligned figures in modern patent law is preparing to rain on your parade. Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO and founder of patent holder Intellectual Ventures, has managed to get an expansive patent on 3D printing DRM. That 3D printing revolution we’ve been hoping for just got a lot trickier. The system envisioned by Myhrvold would be used to prevent users of 3D printers from abusing “object production rights.” Copyright law is a complicated beast, and it’s not traditionally applicable to objects. So how do we get from where we are now to some sort of dystopian future where your printer is tattling on you to the copyright cops? The second way 3D printing will see push-back is a little more ominous. Every DRM scheme implemented so far has been cracked in some way. Now read: The Patent War: Is it killing innovation?
Fab Cafe in Tokyo Preps Sweet 3D Printing Workshop in Time for Valentine's Day
We’ve had a few fun 3D printing stories over the past few weeks. You may recall this 3D printing photo studio from Xi’an, China which prints a miniature bust of the customer in just a few hours after the initial photo is snapped. But just across the water in Japan, the folks at Fab Cafe Tokyo are cooking up some 3D printing goodness that is just a little bit sweeter, and just in time for Valentine’s day. In early February, Fab Cafe will hold a workshop for women where they can make 3D chocolates modeled from their own face using a 3D printer and scanner. The workshop will be held on consecutive Saturdays, February 2nd and 9th, and participants will be able to learn about 3D modeling. You’ll also have a chance to create a mould, from which you can later make your own chocolate replicas. This particular event is targeting women, since the Valentine’s Day custom in Japan is for women to give chocolate to men. (Via Chiho Komoriya on Japanese VW)
Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will bring to Our Future
All the way back in March of 2004, working in his laboratory at the University of Southern California in San Diego, Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, was working with a new process he had invented called Contour Crafting to construct the world’s first 3D printed wall. His goal was to use the technology for rapid home construction as a way to rebuild after natural disasters, like the devastating earthquakes that had recently occurred in his home country of Iran. While we have still not seen our first “printed home” just yet, they will be coming very soon. For an industry firmly entrenched in working with nails and screws, the prospects of replacing saws and hammers with giant printing machines seems frightening. Here’s why I think this will happen. Contour Crafting Contour Crafting is a form of 3D printing that uses robotic arms and nozzles to squeeze out layers of concrete or other materials, moving back and forth over a set path in order to fabricate a large component. Breaking Through the Barriers
The $25 Lulz Liberator: The first 3D-printed gun with a rifled barrel
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Proving that the open source movement is something that ought to be feared and revered, an engineer in Wisconsin has taken the world’s first 3D printed gun — and refined it, so that it can be produced for just $25, with a cheap 3D printer. When Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed (DefDist) produced the first all-plastic, 3D-printed gun, he did so with a commercial-grade ($8,000+) Stratasys 3D printer. The new gun, dubbed the Lulz Liberator, is based on Wilson’s Liberator. Surprisingly, despite the cheaper printer, the Lulz Liberator seems to be even stronger than Wilson’s original Liberator. Perhaps more importantly, though, Joe actually went one step further and added rifling to his barrel. Still, there you have it: The first rifled, plastic 3D gun has been produced — and it costs just $25. Now read: How DRM will infest the 3D printing revolution
