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Kathy Laffoon

Kansas teen uses 3-D printer to make hand for boy - KansasCity.com - 21 views

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  • Johnson County Library had a 3-D printer that was free for anyone with a library card to use.
  • The first 3-D printer version was made in January 2013, and Van As and Owen put free instructions online.
    • Kathy Laffoon
      Kathy Laffoon on 18 Feb 14
       
      Free instructions!
  • The Johnson County Library keeps its 3-D printer in an area called the Makerspace that opened nearly a year ago.
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  • Mason Wilde has always had a passion for figuring out how things work.
Chrystian Noble

First ban in the country: 3D-printed guns now illegal in Philadelphia - RT USA - 0 views

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  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has become the first city in the United States to officially ban the use of 3D printers to manufacture firearms, only six months after a Texas-based company published digital blueprints for a homemade handgun.
kdavis5

The Pros and Cons of 3D Printing « Phil for Humanity - 2 views

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  • Products can more quickly go from just a design to an actual prototype.
  • Manufacturing Options: 3D printing provides a wide variety of manufactured products, including customizable products and even an individual’s personal designs. Rapid Prototyping: Products can more quickly go from just a design to an actual prototype. Manufacturing Speed: Just like the previous advantage, the manufacturing speed for a large number of final products is equally fast. Reduced Costs: Even though the initial setup costs are higher, 3D printing has become cheaper than cheap labor in third world countries. Additionally, the costs of 3D printing are still decreasing, with the potential of 3D printers in homes in the near future. Furthermore, the costs of customized products are the same for mass production products. Warehousing: With traditional manufacturing technologies, it is much faster and cheaper to manufacture additional products that you probably know that you will eventually need. However with 3D printing, only products that are sold need to be manufactured, thus warehousing of excess inventory is significantly less needed. More Jobs: More engineers are needed to design and build 3D printers, and more technicians are needed to maintain, use, and fix 3D printers too. Additionally, with the lower cost of manufacturing, more designers and artists would be able deliver their products to the market. Even more domestic jobs for shipping these products should be created too. Medical: One of the innovative products that 3D printing may provide is the manufacturing of customizable human body parts or organs. While these usages are still experimental, the potential advantages are huge. Imagine doctors quickly building and replacing critical organs, such as the heart, lungs, or liver that will have almost no chance of donor rejection, since the organs will be built using the patients’ unique characters and DNA.
    • hskinner
      hskinner on 18 Feb 14
       
      ADVANTAGES for 3-D printing 
  • Fewer Manufacturing Jobs: As with all new technologies, manufacturing jobs will decrease. This disadvantage can and will have a large impact to the economies of third world countries, especially China, that depend on a large number of low skill jobs. Limited Materials: Currently, 3D printers only manufacture products out of plastic, resin, certain metals, and ceramics. 3D printing of products in mixed materials and technology, such as circuit boards, are still under development. Copyright: With 3D printing becoming more common, the printing of copyrighted products to create counterfeit items will become more common and nearly impossible to determine. Dangerous Items: 3D printers can create dangerous items, such as guns and knives, with very little or no oversight. More Useless Stuff: One of the dangers of 3D printers is that they will be used to create more useless stuff that is bad for the environment and wallets. Fortunately, there are new methods of automatically recycling objects made by 3D printers that hold promise of better recycling in the future. Size: Currently, 3D printers are limited with the size of the products that they can create. Ultimately, large items, such as houses and building, could be created using 3D printers.
    • hskinner
      hskinner on 18 Feb 14
       
      DISADVANTAGES for 3-D printing
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    • kdavis5
      kdavis5 on 18 Feb 14
       
      Advantages of 3D Printers
  • Manufacturing Options: 3D printing provides a wide variety of manufactured products, including customizable products and even an individual’s personal designs. Rapid Prototyping: Products can more quickly go from just a design to an actual prototype. Manufacturing Speed: Just like the previous advantage, the manufacturing speed for a large number of final products is equally fast. Reduced Costs: Even though the initial setup costs are higher, 3D printing has become cheaper than cheap labor in third world countries. Additionally, the costs of 3D printing are still decreasing, with the potential of 3D printers in homes in the near future. Furthermore, the costs of customized products are the same for mass production products. Warehousing: With traditional manufacturing technologies, it is much faster and cheaper to manufacture additional products that you probably know that you will eventually need. However with 3D printing, only products that are sold need to be manufactured, thus warehousing of excess inventory is significantly less needed. More Jobs: More engineers are needed to design and build 3D printers, and more technicians are needed to maintain, use, and fix 3D printers too. Additionally, with the lower cost of manufacturing, more designers and artists would be able deliver their products to the market. Even more domestic jobs for shipping these products should be created too. Medical: One of the innovative products that 3D printing may provide is the manufacturing of customizable human body parts or organs. While these usages are still experimental, the potential advantages are huge. Imagine doctors quickly building and replacing critical organs, such as the heart, lungs, or liver that will have almost no chance of donor rejection, since the organs will be built using the patients’ unique characters and DNA.
    • kdavis5
      kdavis5 on 18 Feb 14
       
      Disadvantages of 3D Printers
  • With the advantages of 3D printing, mankind may be entering a new post-industrial manufacturing age where products are significantly cheaper and built quicker than ever before, however the disadvantages of 3D printing needs to be known to be better understood and mitigated against.
  • Fewer Manufacturing Jobs: As with all new technologies, manufacturing jobs will decrease. This disadvantage can and will have a large impact to the economies of third world countries, especially China, that depend on a large number of low skill jobs. Limited Materials: Currently, 3D printers only manufacture products out of plastic, resin, certain metals, and ceramics. 3D printing of products in mixed materials and technology, such as circuit boards, are still under development. Copyright: With 3D printing becoming more common, the printing of copyrighted products to create counterfeit items will become more common and nearly impossible to determine. Dangerous Items: 3D printers can create dangerous items, such as guns and knives, with very little or no oversight. More Useless Stuff: One of the dangers of 3D printers is that they will be used to create more useless stuff that is bad for the environment and wallets. Fortunately, there are new methods of automatically recycling objects made by 3D printers that hold promise of better recycling in the future. Size: Currently, 3D printers are limited with the size of the products that they can create. Ultimately, large items, such as houses and building, could be created using 3D printers.
    • kdavis5
      kdavis5 on 18 Feb 14
       
      3D Printing summary
  • Fewer Manufacturing Jobs: As with all new technologies, manufacturing jobs will decrease. This disadvantage can and will have a large impact to the economies of third world countries, especially China, that depend on a large number of low skill jobs. Limited Materials: Currently, 3D printers only manufacture products out of plastic, resin, certain metals, and ceramics. 3D printing of products in mixed materials and technology, such as circuit boards, are still under development. Copyright: With 3D printing becoming more common, the printing of copyrighted products to create counterfeit items will become more common and nearly impossible to determine. Dangerous Items: 3D printers can create dangerous items, such as guns and knives, with very little or no oversight. More Useless Stuff: One of the dangers of 3D printers is that they will be used to create more useless stuff that is bad for the environment and wallets. Fortunately, there are new methods of automatically recycling objects made by 3D printers that hold promise of better recycling in the future. Size: Currently, 3D printers are limited with the size of the products that they can create. Ultimately, large items, such as houses and building, could be created using 3D printers.
  • Manufacturing Options: 3D printing provides a wide variety of manufactured products, including customizable products and even an individual’s personal designs. Rapid Prototyping: Products can more quickly go from just a design to an actual prototype. Manufacturing Speed: Just like the previous advantage, the manufacturing speed for a large number of final products is equally fast. Reduced Costs: Even though the initial setup costs are higher, 3D printing has become cheaper than cheap labor in third world countries. Additionally, the costs of 3D printing are still decreasing, with the potential of 3D printers in homes in the near future. Furthermore, the costs of customized products are the same for mass production products. Warehousing: With traditional manufacturing technologies, it is much faster and cheaper to manufacture additional products that you probably know that you will eventually need. However with 3D printing, only products that are sold need to be manufactured, thus warehousing of excess inventory is significantly less needed. More Jobs: More engineers are needed to design and build 3D printers, and more technicians are needed to maintain, use, and fix 3D printers too. Additionally, with the lower cost of manufacturing, more designers and artists would be able deliver their products to the market. Even more domestic jobs for shipping these products should be created too. Medical: One of the innovative products that 3D printing may provide is the manufacturing of customizable human body parts or organs. While these usages are still experimental, the potential advantages are huge. Imagine doctors quickly building and replacing critical organs, such as the heart, lungs, or liver that will have almost no chance of donor rejection, since the organs will be built using the patients’ unique characters and DNA.
  • Fewer Manufacturing Jobs: As with all new technologies, manufacturing jobs will decrease. This disadvantage can and will have a large impact to the economies of third world countries, especially China, that depend on a large number of low skill jobs. Limited Materials: Currently, 3D printers only manufacture products out of plastic, resin, certain metals, and ceramics. 3D printing of products in mixed materials and technology, such as circuit boards, are still under development. Copyright: With 3D printing becoming more common, the printing of copyrighted products to create counterfeit items will become more common and nearly impossible to determine. Dangerous Items: 3D printers can create dangerous items, such as guns and knives, with very little or no oversight. More Useless Stuff: One of the dangers of 3D printers is that they will be used to create more useless stuff that is bad for the environment and wallets. Fortunately, there are new methods of automatically recycling objects made by 3D printers that hold promise of better recycling in the future. Size: Currently, 3D printers are limited with the size of the products that they can create. Ultimately, large items, such as houses and building, could be created using 3D printers.
Caelob Wexler

Criminals Find New Uses for 3D Printing | PCWorld - 2 views

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  • D printers--desktop devices that can print out objects as easily as your home inkjet prints out documents--are getting less expensive and more common every day, and they promise to revolutionize manufacturing in the same way that desktop printing revolutionized publishing.
  • Unfortunately, though the promise of 3D printing is great, we've also begun to see glimpses of its dark side as criminals--and average citizens who are up to no good--think up dangerous and creepy new uses for 3D printed material.
  • used his 3D printer to create a key to unlock handcuffs carried by the Dutch police. Startlingly, he was able to measure and reproduce the key accurately by using nothing more than a photograph of the key hanging from the belt of a police officer plus some basic math to gauge its size.
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  • A similar ring was indicted in South Texas in June 2011 after investing some of its ill-gotten gains in more-advanced 3D printers. And last year a legitimate 3D printing service called i.Materialise received an order for an ATM skimmer that it turned down. "Fortunately, our engineers were quick to react," i.Materialise said on its blog, "and after communication with the customer, the decision was made to decline the order. We do not support criminal activity and will do everything in our power to prevent possible crimes."
  • The gang's skimmers--devices that fit over an ATM machine and steal the debit or credit card information of unsuspecting ATM users--were created on high-tech 3D printers to help make the skimmer overlays for the ATM machines look as realistic as possible.
  • Obvious examples are the keys to your home, office, and car--yet savvy 3D printer owners have already how to do just that: Measure the key, build a 3D model, and print away to produce cheap copies.
  • site where users share potentially useful 3D models for others to print out at home, posted the plans for printing a magazine for an AR-15 rifle. A fully automatic AR-15 can fire 800 bullets a minute. While the posted model held just five rounds of ammunition and was completely legal, extending the magazine to hold fifteen or even more rounds by modifying the model would be easy enough.
  • He says that, while some uses of 3D printers are obviously dangerous and illegal, we have to think about how much 3D printing is to blame.
  • that people can create on 3D printers--the keys, the gun parts, and even the ATM skimmers--have been illegally manufactured in the past by means of traditional milling machines and other manufacturing hardware.
  • Caelob Wexler on 18 Feb 14
     
    "s your home inkjet prints out documents--are getting less expensive and more common every day, and they promise to revolutionize manufacturing in the same way that desktop printing revolutionized publishing. I've written elsewhere about how we're at the start of a 3D printing revolution. In the past year, people have used 3D printing to tackle everything from spare parts to entire cars to blood vessels. It seems as though a new use for 3D printing emerges every week. Unfortunately, though the promise of 3D printing is great, we've also begun to see glimpses of its dark side as criminals--and average citizens who are up to no good--think up dangerous and creepy new uses for 3D printed material. How About Your Car Key? When people can replicate any object with ease, you soon realize that there are plenty of objects you don't want replicated. Obvious examples are the keys to your home, office, and car--yet savvy 3D printer owners have already how to do just that: Measure the key, build a 3D model, and print away to produce cheap copies. If you're the rightful owner, the technology gives you a hassle-free way to generate backup keys, but the process can go terribly wrong. For instance, a member of a German lock-picking group, Sportsfreunde Der Sperrtechnik - Deutschland e.V., used his 3D printer to create a key to unlock handcuffs carried by the Dutch police. Startlingly, he was able to measure and reproduce the key accurately by using nothing more than a photograph of the key hanging from the belt of a police officer plus some basic math to gauge its size. Afterward, he not only printed out a copy of the key to test, but also put the model up online for anyone to print. A 3D-printed key that can open Dutch police handcuffs. The key was just a proof of concept by an enthusiastic amateur and hasn't been used in the commission of any actual crimes, but real criminals have discovered 3D printers, too. In September 2011, a gang was prosecuted after stealing more than
kdavis5

How 3D Printing Will Change Our World | LondonBloggers.net - 2 views

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3D Printrers

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  • The Pros If you imagine your life with a 3D printer at your disposal, you will likely come up with an endless list of things that you could do with it. There are simple, mundane applications, such as printing out tools or utensils that you might need around the house. Just think of a weekend project, like shelf-installation, and picture how much easier it would be to print out shelving or mounts at home. You could easily create jewelry that is one of a kind or produce quick toys for your kids or grandkids. Once you think of humanitarian uses for 3D printing, you will see the way that such a product has the potential to really change our world. If, for instance, volunteers had access to this technology at refugee camps, they could print out cots, plates, or even medical supplies as they needed them. This would allow them access to supplies on an unlimited basis and spare them from trying to route shipments around hostile locations. Education is another area that would benefit greatly from 3D printing technology. Art students could create sculptures from two-dimensional sketches and anatomy students could produce 3D models of the human body from textbooks. Think of how much easier it would be to understand physics or other abstract concepts if teachers could print out examples to illustrate important lessons.
    • kdavis5
      kdavis5 on 18 Feb 14
       
      Pros of 3D Printers
  • The Cons Imagining all of the good that rescuers or humanitarian aid workers could do with 3D printing is just as dramatic as thinking of all of the things that bad people could enact with this capability. For every volunteer whom you envision helping the sick, there is a dictator who would love to create more nefarious instruments at will. Already, a Texas company has embarked on distributing downloadable, free models for usable firearms online. The mission of this company is to make the free printing of firearms and bullets available to anyone in the world. This group all but admits that they are curious about sparking international revolutions with this technology. Such applications of 3D printing step around gun laws and could easily be extended to grenades or bombs or landmines…the problems go on and on. As with most new technology, 3D printing could change the world–for better or for worse. In the end, it is up to us to decide if we will use this technology to promote peace and goodwill or to start a war.
    • kdavis5
      kdavis5 on 18 Feb 14
       
      The Cons of 3D Printers
Zach Ewbank

3D Printing Risks: Not Just Plastic Guns, But Military Parts, Drugs And Chemical Weapons - 1 views

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  • . But it also opens the door to making counterfeit parts for commercial or defense operations, designed for sabotage.
  • But the ability to print drugs on demand necessarily raises the prospect that people might print out recreational drugs -- or worse.
  • but there will be an increased capability for a small organization to create sophisticated biological or chemical weaponry,
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  • The case of meth may offer an instructive model. The trend of using decongestants to synthesize meth prompted Congress to pass a law in 2005 putting identification checks, purchase limits and other restrictions in place for Sudafed and similar drugs.
  • “It’s definitely a knee-jerk reaction in Washington to regulate 3-D printers,” Wohlers said. “It’s only going to cut our own throats.”
  • 3D Printing Risks: Not Just Plastic Guns, But Military Parts, Drugs And Chemical Weapons
serickson19

The Five Most Promising Uses Of 3D Printing In Medicine | ThinkProgress - 0 views

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  • “One of the most promising research activities is bioprinting a glucose-sensitive pancreatic organ that can be grown in a lab and transplanted anywhere inside the body to regulate the glucose level of blood,” said Ozbolat of his goal. Considering the epidemic-level of diabetes in the United States — and the associated health care costs of the disease — that would be a true medical revolution, essentially nullifying the disease.
    • serickson19
      serickson19 on 13 Feb 14
       
      Is this truly possible? 
Chrystian Noble

3D printing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Several projects and companies are making efforts to develop affordable 3D printers for home desktop use.
thuynh

» Pros And Cons Of 3D Printing - 1 views

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3-d printing pros cons

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    • thuynh
      thuynh on 18 Feb 14
       
      Getting your work done faster.
  • The pros of using 3D printing would include making processes finish faster
    • thuynh
      thuynh on 18 Feb 14
       
      The process of the company would take faster.
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  • process would be shortened
    • thuynh
      thuynh on 18 Feb 14
       
      People can print dangerous weapons.
  • One of the disadvantages of using 3D printing is the possible manufacturing of dangerous weapons.
    • thuynh
      thuynh on 18 Feb 14
       
      People could lose jobs.
  • However, many people would lose jobs especially those that are working in the prototyping industry.
  • thuynh on 18 Feb 14
     
    Pros and Cons
Caelob Wexler

3-D Printing the New War on Drugs - 1 views

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  • erwise, the costs of research, winning regulatory approval, and production can exceed anything a pharmaceutical company could hope to recoup in an era when developing a new drug might cost a billion — or billions of — dollars.
  • Not incidentally, the revolution also promises to kneecap whatever is left of efforts to control chemistry’s results, including recreational drugs.
  • What impact will the ability to print chemical compounds on printers have on the political class of easily flustered control freaks?
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  • If people could print off… sheets of ecstasy tablets at the party they’re at that time, that just completely takes away our border protection role in its known sense.
  • It’s difficult to believe that the world that brought us the Silk Road online marketplace for illegal drugs won’t also produce chemically oriented tinkerers in abundance to exploit the recreational (and commercial) potential of producing intoxicants via 3-D chemical printing.
ofloro

Future Tech: How 3D Printing Will Change the World | Alternet - 0 views

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  • Thanks to the ability to build a product from the bottom up, 3D printers can print shapes that cannot be viably manufactured any other way
  • The machines are also the ultimate expression of "just-in-time" manufacturing: a company can manufacture a needed part instantly, right on the spot, rather than depend on the old system that required parts to be manufactured in mass quantities, stored in massive warehouses and shipped to far-flung locations.
  • To further lower the resource footprint on our products, some researchers are working on attaching recycling machines to allow manufacturers and hobbyists to reduce their ordering of raw injection materials which they have to order from somewhere else
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  • When printed items break or need replacement, home users could simply recycle them into the machine, creating a cradle-to-cradle system—the Holy Grail for recycling advocates
  • ofloro on 13 Feb 14
     
    3-D printing!
Kathy Laffoon

Meet The Man Who Created The 3D Printed Gun - Business Insider - 1 views

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3-d printer gun

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  • any nut with access to a 3D printer can print one in the privacy of their bedroom
    • Kathy Laffoon
      Kathy Laffoon on 13 Feb 14
       
      laws
Sarah Roebbeke

3D Printing: Make anything you want - YouTube - 0 views

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Medical

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      Sarah Roebbeke on 13 Feb 14
       
      Real cells used to help with rejection of the human body
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    Medical 3d printing use
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