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Click, Print, Gun – 3D Printed Guns (Documentary)

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:05:55 +0000

Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he's putting all the information online so that others will join him. This is a story about the rapid evolution of a technology that has forced the American legal system to play catch up. Cody Wilson, a 24 year old University of Texas Law student, is an advocate for the open source production of firearms using 3D printing technology. This makes him a highly controversial figure on both sides of the gun control issue. MOTHERBOARD sat down with Cody in Austin, Texas to talk about the constitution, the legal system, and to watch him make and test-fire a 3D-printed gun. In a time when America’s collective memory is deeply scarred by mass-shootings, the issue of gun control still proves highly divisive; but whilst American congress argues for legislation on the matter, a small band of tech enthusiasts have been taking matters of control into their own hands, producing functional guns with 3D printers. ‘Click, Print, Gun’ follows the poster boy for the revolution. Twenty-five year old Texan and unashamed media provocateur Cody Wilson is at the forefront of a growing fringe of gun printers and welcomes Motherboard into his world of fast-firing, homegrown weaponry that started life as a CAD file. ‘Click Print, Gun’ charts how 3D printing technology has allowed Wilson to amass a collection of modified gun parts, all fully convertible into automatic firearms with the capability of firing over 100 rounds continuously, a fact keenly demonstrated by Wilson throughout the film. For Wilson, 3D technology and the free-sharing of information has dramatically changed the goal posts when speaking on gun control and whilst an ideological struggle on delineation is played out, he is making the most of this new dimension of gun ownership. ‘Click, Print, Gun’ questions Wilson’s practices and those of his company Defence Distributed, who provide free access to the designs needed for printing the parts, offering the fruits of their intellectual labour to anyone with a decent connection speed. Is this finally the time lawmakers must pay attention to controversial characters such as Wilson or does a line need to be drawn under a potentially dangerous bastardisation of technology?

Will 3D Printing Change the World?

Documentary.net staff — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:56:49 +0000

Much attention has been paid to 3D Printing lately, with new companies developing cheaper and more efficient consumer models that have wowed the tech community. They herald 3D Printing as a revolutionary and disruptive technology, but how will these printers truly affect our society? Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based. From at-home repairs to new businesses, from medical to ecological developments, 3D Printing has an undeniably wide range of possibilities which could profoundly change our world. Featuring: Sam Cervantes, CEO of Solidoodle http://www.solidoodle.com/ Carine Carmy, Shapeways http://www.shapeways.com/ Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge http://www.publicknowledge.org/ Joseph Flaherty, WIRED.com http://www.wired.com/

Leaders Of The 3D Printing Revolution

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:41:54 +0000

3D printing is an additive manufactoring technology which makes it possible to turn 3D modeled designs into custom solid objects on demand. This technology has been adapted by many artists and designers, many of whom have come together through the online community of Shapeways. Shapeways opens up 3D printing to the masses, allowing us to design and share our ideas as well as realize them as physical objects.