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Introducing Self-Replicating 3DPrinters >>>

KEY: DATE [number of units] event Spring 2007 [1]  The first RepRap Darwin was finished. Its parts were made in a Stratasys Dimension. During that summer the RepRap team made four or five sets of parts...

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3DPrinted Gun Pt1: Control Debate >

3DPrinting advances are about to make the gun debate in the United States much more intense. Last week, Forbes highlighted Wiki Weapon, a project to prototype the world’s first fully 3DPrintable gun....

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3DPrinted Gun Pt2: Campaign Stopped >

Could the ability to manufacture weapons by download in your own home could be the first step into a 3DPrinted black market? Indiegogo has now suspended Defense Distributed‘s  Wiki Weapon Project to...

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The 3DPrinter Clone Debate – Tangibot >>>

Matt Strong has invented a 3DPrinter called the TangiBot. More precisely, he built an exact replica of the MakerBot Replicator 3DPrinter. He is attempting to raise  £315,000 (US$500,000) on...

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Three Colour Three Dimensional Printing >>>

The inevitable progress of home 3DPrinting to full colour has taken another step forward thanks to RichRap.RepRap hobbiest RichRap has taken a leap for mankind by developing a 3-way extruder (material...

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3DPrinting & Copyright: Future War? >

The next great technological disruption is fermenting away, out of sight, in garage workshops, college labs, and basements. Hobbists with machines that turn binarys into molecules are pioneering a new...

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Visualising Data Using a 3DPrinter >>>

SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE LEVEL > > > > >5/5 ‘Some time ago, I had some data that lent themselves to a 3D surface plot. The problem was, the plot was quite asymmetrical, and finding the right...

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: MakerBot >>>

ARTICLE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL  > > >3> > ____________________________________________________________________ Over the past week the 3DPrinting community has felt the emerging impact of what...

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: 3DPrinting Sector Update >

ARTICLE SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE LEVEL  > > >>4> Further to the tide of concern to Terms of Service on MakerBot’s opensource design storage of 3DPrintables ‘Thingiverse,’  a rundown of...

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REVIEW: LulzBot TK-0

SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE LEVEL  > > > >4 > ___________________________________ Aleph Objects’ LulzBot TK-0 3D Printer  announced a huge 300mm x 300mm x 225mm build volume… The high end...

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3DPrinted Gun Pt3: Seized…>

Who would have thought it? Printing guns is frowned upon. Even in the U.S. Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, found this out last week when Stratasys, the company that...

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3DPrinted Gun Pt4: What Now? >

Click the image to view the full Stratasys letter to Defense Distributed In a now ongoing saga Defense Distributed, a group of pro-gun lobbyists with the idea to 3DPrint a live firearm, has had its...

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: 3DPrinting V’s Government? >

Maker Faire 2012 in New York last weekend was a great place to see, first hand, the products and processes behind a very promising technology that’s been receiving so much attention lately, and...

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Update >

Industries that would almost certainly be put out of business by 3DPrinting, were it to become a household norm, are not going to go down without a fight, say legal experts. And what will be their...

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: DRM for 3DP? >

Most 3DPrinting has been done in industry or by hobbyists who share their designs freely online. Now Intellectual Ventures, the company run by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has been issued a...

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3DPrint Patent Is Weak – New Scientist >

  (Image: Martine Roch/Flickr/Getty) ‘One of the greatest benefits of 3DPrinting technology – the ability to make replacements or parts for household objects like toys, utensils and gadgets – may be...

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Free Software Foundation V’s 3DPrinting Copyright?

Our recent articles regarding the a new patent from Intellectual Ventures that attempts to assert ownership of DRM for 3DPrinting raises a plethora of validation issues, concerns, positive applications...

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