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Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action) by Patrick Hood-Daniel, James Floyd Kelly

Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action) Patrick Hood-Daniel, James Floyd Kelly ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1430234431, 9781430234449
Publisher: Apress
Page: 466

With 3-D printing poised to go mainstream, will we soon all be able to print a gun? The media's succession of 3D gun stories has touched off a brisk ethical debate, but all of them ignore the fact that people have been fabricating their own homemade firearms for generations. Granted, many things have happened in the world since the mass shooting that led many politicians to vow action, and one of those things was that people stopped focusing on the issue. In the spirit of sharing the tremendous excitement involved in providing a 3D printer to our community, we hope our successful experience may be of use to others as you make the case for your own library. But hey, that's the ambivalent nature of technology, the great enabler. But, let's be honest, you're soooo expensive. Once people own the means of production of guns in their homes, it will be all the easier for folks to acquire them, obviously. Maybe instead of printing with $30 spools of plastic you could print with empty shampoo bottles and milk jugs. 3D printing is a relatively new technology. At the time of the publication of this post, the whole of the news media is agog at the discovery that private citizens are using home 3D printers to create functioning plastic handguns. But how could a company profit off of you providing your own plastic? Researchers at Michigan Technological University have created a plastic extruder, called Filabot, that turns home recyclables into usable filament for 3D printing. Forget that the efforts to create more stringent .. The only thing new about the issue is this emerging technology. A Chicago company, called The 3D Printer Experience is hoping to bring this technology to the masses. This 3D printing effort was meant to show that in some way gun restrictions are futile, but all they're proving is that someone can make a plastic zip gun that's likely to explode in your hand. There is a certain extent to which 3D printers are a poster technic for Neil Postman's questions for technology (more on those questions here) as such printers are a perfect example of devices that may create as many problems as they solve (as the printable gun case evinces). We'll cover the opportunities libraries Although the technology has been around for well over a decade, the cost for reliable printers has dropped to the point where it is now becoming widely accessible to hobbyists and the education market. The journey of 3-D printing, in many ways, has been bringing technology that's traditionally been too expensive for individuals or even small businesses, and making that (or similar) technology available to the little guys. An American gunsmith has become the first person to construct and shoot a pistol partly made out of plastic, 3D-printed In short, this means that people without gun licenses — or people who have had their licenses revoked — could print their own lower receiver and build a complete, off-the-books gun.