3D Printed guns

A short documentary from VICE about the home based manufacturing of guns through 3D printing processes.

Guns, some will say, are tools and you cannot criticise or regulate the ownership of the tool by the potencial evil use of it. This is quite true in most cases but the reality is guns are tools ment to be use on evil ways, guns are either for killing something or for get control over a subject by threading to kill or injure it.  Criminals do that as well as the Police.

Now with the digital manufacturing revolution getting into every home and supported by 3D files sharing communities we can not only print guns but we also can share with the  world specialised knowledge about building guns, so everyone having a 3D printer can become a potencial gun man to defend his own couse, this being criminal life or a fighting an oppressive ruler.

As with every mayor technological revolution on manufacturing the bottom line quickly becomes about power and dominance either from one country to another or from one side of society to the other, but differently from previous breakthroughs this one place the responsibility to answer the question about how to use this new possibilities directly on the hands of the one used to know as the bystander.  


Via VICE

Micro manufacturing robots as a children´s book

Pop-up books are always a fascinating way of making narratives more appealing to children and delight craft-sensitive grown ups with unexpected volumes being unfolded in every turn of the page, but building functional complex robots through this process sounded -at least- far fetched.
This is how bees are born today... Well, just mechanical ones, for now.  Harvard Researchers have develop a process on which a a robot bee, its assembly scaffolding and its support are fabricated as a Printed Circuit MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) stacking  a group of 18 previously laser cut layers of different materials. In the cut, stacking and organization of these layers lays a surprising secret that rivalry the magic of  Alice in wonderland. (check the video to discover it)
Utterly amazing fabrication and assembly process that, although its complexity, looks simple as a children´s book.

Via: scientificamerican