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October 8

 
 
Gervase Markham's 3D printer

Welcome to the tenth edition of 3D Print Weekly, time certainly flies!

Above: Gervase Markham builds his own 3D printer and documents the process in detail on his blog. Read more.

(submitted by @praxxis)

 

Law

 

3D printed gun project halts after Stratasys confiscates rented printer

"The 3D printer that project owner Defense Distributed rented from Stratasys has been confiscated by the company due to legal concerns about the project."

Read more on The Verge

Submitted by @natebirdman

 

Science

 

3D Printed Dinosaurs!

"Paleontologist Tyler Keillor has not only successfully funded his Kickstarter project to make a 3D printed Dryptosaurus restoration, but funded it nearly 4 times over!"

Read more on 3D Printing is Cool

 

John Biggs and Jon Evans duke it out on Tech Crunch with the following articles (what do you think of their opinions?) below:

 

Technology

 

Home 3D Printing Is Killing The Manufacturing Industry

"In terms of a direct analogue to this issue, however, we can point to home taping and CD burning. The expectation – and it’s a valid one – is that home 3D printing will get so good that the items it produces will rival simple items we now buy."

Read more on Tech Crunch

 

There Is No Reason For Any Individual To Have A 3D Printer In Their Home

"John Biggs argues that home 3D printing is killing the manufacturing industry. I respectfully disagree.

Oh, I agree that 3D printing will be a serious threat to manufacturing as we know it. But not at home. That doesn’t make sense. Instead, we’ll have two kinds of communal 3D printer shops."

Read more on Tech Crunch

 

3D printing for fun and profit: a serious hobby grows up

"Colloquially, '3D printing' has two definitions.

Definition 1: a revolutionary movement in which workers will own the means of production.

Definition 2: a novelty technology that, at its most impressive, yields trinkets that could pass for being made in China."

Read more on The Verge

Submitted by @makenai

 

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In This Issue

  1. Law
  2. Science
  3. Technology

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