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

By The Week Staff | January 12, 2013. On July 1, engineer Michael “HaveBlue” Guslick reported having assembled a working AR-15 from spare parts and a fully 3D-printed plastic lower receiver. Veronika Lukasova/ZUMA Press/Corbis. It's a revolutionary manufacturing process in which the design for physical objects, from toys to jewelry to machine parts, can be digitally transmitted to a device that makes them out of plastic, metal, or ceramic materials. Similarly, at the University of Washington, three engineering students have built a relatively inexpensive 3D printer called “Big Red,” capable of making large objects out of shredded plastic. When I saw it in action, it was printing cool things like 3D puzzles and a guitar pick. Because the HaveBlue, and a guy named turomar, working from the summer until about October, definitely proved that you can print and build these and basically put as much .22 through them as you want. Another early initiative was RepRap, a project that developed printers that ran on free and open source software (FOSS) and were capable of printing many of their own parts. 3-D printing is a new technology that shows great promise, but also requires new guidelines. Three-dimensional printers make manufacturing possible at home. Add to Google Reader · View RSS Feed. (I gave one to Cameron to use with his guitar and he thinks it's so cool.) A 3D printer uses plastic like you see with Legos and it and put them into 3d rendering, what is stopping anyone from just going to a store and seeing figurines or water fountains or whatever, taking pictures of them and going home to make a 3d duplicate of what they wanted in the store? Could they spell the end of mass production? Much of the initial innovation and growth behind 3D .