What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
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What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
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#2I think it'll look like this:
http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405
"AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files"
Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross:
"Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid prototyper is good. Here's the Magpul FMG-9 prototype: and here's some more. Is it a flashlight? Is it a submachine gun? Who knows? Here's another baroque weapon that probably started life on a rapid prototyping machine. If reprap-like machines with strong materials turn out to be cheap and easy, then never mind licensing handguns — we're going to have a problem with home-made crew-served weapons. (Reminder: yr. hmbl. crspndnt. lives in a country where, for better or worse, possession of a pistol by anyone who's not in the police or military carries a mandatory 5-year minimum prison sentence. The implications of rapid prototyping machines for this sort of legislative environment probably parallel the effects of peer to peer networking on music industry cartels.)"
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/06/the_futu...
Re: What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like
#3I think it'll look like this: http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405 "AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files" Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross: "Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid prototyper is good. Here's the Magpul FMG-9 prototype: and here's some more. Is it a flashlight? Is it a submachine gun? Who knows? Here's another baroque weapon that probably starte…
Guns, really? My first thought was replacement parts...
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#4The author missed the true significance of the Maker Revolution. It is not about people being able to design their own products or having a market full of craptastic products.
The Maker Revolution is about being able to provide for your needs without depending on a global supply chain. It's about the kind of material freedom you might have if your neighborhood hardware store, or even your household fab in the garage can make all the goods for your basic needs, and then some.
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#5I think it'll look like this: http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405 "AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files" Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross: "Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid prototyper is good. Here's the Magpul FMG-9 prototype: and here's some more. Is it a flashlight? Is it a submachine gun? Who knows? Here's another baroque weapon that probably starte…
Downvoted, why does everyone need to bring up the gun issue when somebody talks about the maker revolution? Big gun manufactures have been making guns for a long time. I don't see how people making themselves matters at all.
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#6I think it'll look like this: http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405 "AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files" Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross: "Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid prototyper is good. Here's the Magpul FMG-9 prototype: and here's some more. Is it a flashlight? Is it a submachine gun? Who knows? Here's another baroque weapon that probably starte…
Downvoted, why does everyone need to bring up the gun issue when somebody talks about the maker revolution? Big gun manufactures have been making guns for a long time. I don't see how people making themselves matters at all.
The point is the difficulty of enforcing gun control legislation, when a banned 30 round clip can be simply printed in anyone's garage from a easily transferred file. Not entirely germane to the present discussion I think, but not entirely irrelevant either.
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#7Yes, real products, from haute couture handbags...
I don't think they know what haute couture means. The maker bot is about localized mass production, not something made specifically for one person. And clothing has always been a maker activity - you can go buy a sewing machine (and pretty advanced ones at that) right this second.
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#8The author missed the true significance of the Maker Revolution. It is not about people being able to design their own products or having a market full of craptastic products. The Maker Revolution is about being able to provide for your needs without depending on a global supply chain. It's about the kind of material freedom you might have if your neighborhood hardware store, or even your household fab in the garage…
>>provide for your needs without depending on a global supply chain.
Hmm... reminds me of a discussion (@Stross' blog) about how many people were needed in a society, to support a technological civilization. Stross argued we would need many millions of people.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insuffic...
(Of course, lots of specialised services can be replaced with less efficient generic ones, but even a minimum of one million people have severe implications for a Mars colony.)
Edit: Clarity
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#9This tacit knowledge is the reason why we don’t have a 3D model of a Stradivarius violin, or even a real-life exact replica of any kind, for that matter.
It may be no Stradivarius, but it's a start on 3D printing musical instruments: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-11/the-worlds-f...
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#10I think it'll look like this: http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405 "AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files" Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross: "Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid prototyper is good. Here's the Magpul FMG-9 prototype: and here's some more. Is it a flashlight? Is it a submachine gun? Who knows? Here's another baroque weapon that probably starte…
Downvoted, why does everyone need to bring up the gun issue when somebody talks about the maker revolution? Big gun manufactures have been making guns for a long time. I don't see how people making themselves matters at all.
Did you perhaps miss this: "Obama told lawmakers that he wanted them to swiftly pass a assault-weapon ban and limit magazines to 10 bullets."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/01/16/what-obama...
"If reprap-like machines with strong materials turn out to be cheap and easy, then never mind licensing handguns — we're going to have a problem with home-made crew-served weapons." - Charles Stross
The drivers of new technology aren't always wholesome.