'Pirate Bay' for 3D printing launched
The company that developed 3D printed gun parts has announced plans to launch a new firm, dedicated to copyright-free blueprints for a range of 3D printable objects.
Defcad, as the firm will be known, has already been dubbed the Pirate Bay of 3D printing. The site will become a "search engine for 3D printing," according to its founders.
But its flouting of copyright is likely to face legal challenges.
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Check out - http://www.defcad.com/ (http://www.defcad.com/)
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Copy right laws the way they are are bullshit. It slows progress and holds humanity back, and in the information age they are beginning to make no sense. The open source and direct sales models are the way to go. Take the way the producers of Game of Thrones reacted to their show being most pirated ever, good they said, people are talking about it, it probably made us more money by word of mouth. I know I pay for worthy material and content, but it is the pirates that inspire me to want something, and if it is worth it I reward the makers.
The internet will get what it wants one way or the other, that is the new 20 cents (paradigm), we are part of the internet, but it is more than the sum of its parts, and has barely awoken to its true potential.
1000 clams for a machine that makes small plastic airplanes. It's a bargain!
$5000 for one that will print in stainless steel, titanium, glass, steel, aluminum. Seriously, if you think it is all plastic that is a mistake, they can print metal with incredible properties using molecular structures that can not be machined or cast. We are very close to being able to print a car, a real full sized car, all the parts technically can be printed.
Just guessing here but, I think these are 10% of the way there to having Star Trek replicators. They are already working on the other half that you dump your old plastics and metals in, then it breaks it all down atomically and uses it to feed the printer.
Print a sweet pipe in the morning, use to limber up, throw it back in the machine and make a carburetor out of it in the afternoon, maybe 5-10 years before that is a common reality.
Quote from: Boston Rockbury on March 14, 2013, 03:50:08 PM
1000 clams for a machine that makes small plastic airplanes. It's a bargain!
I still do origami manually. 8)
Well, not really. The closest I get to origami is folding the dollar bills in half before stuffing them into my pocket. But it sounded good. Almost.
LOL
You know, once these printers are more affordable, I'm getting one and making/sharing so many designs!
:D
Quote from: RighteousDude on March 14, 2013, 04:28:28 PM
Quote from: Boston Rockbury on March 14, 2013, 03:50:08 PM
1000 clams for a machine that makes small plastic airplanes. It's a bargain!
I still do origami manually. 8)
Well, not really. The closest I get to origami is folding the dollar bills in half before stuffing them into my pocket. But it sounded good. Almost.
And I'll be damned if I'm going to use one of the machines to jerk off! I still jerk off manually! But nice machine you got there, completely unspoiled. ;D
Quote from: revgms on March 14, 2013, 04:12:20 PM
We are very close to being able to print a car, a real full sized car, all the parts technically can be printed.
Call me when they can make the car out of hemp as Henry Ford did in 1941. :D
Quote from: RighteousDude on March 14, 2013, 09:42:36 PM
Quote from: revgms on March 14, 2013, 04:12:20 PM
We are very close to being able to print a car, a real full sized car, all the parts technically can be printed.
Call me when they can make the car out of hemp as Henry Ford did in 1941. :D
Fuckin' eh! ;D(http://www.jonathandoctor.net/images/facebook_like_button_big-small.jpg)
Hmmm...
I would bet that is possible, all you'd have to do is use some sort of hemp "ink" that can be hardened some how, like with uv light or laser or some shit like that. I'd also bet in thirty years we can just print hemp/chronic just another molecule.
We've also skipped over one of the more interesting aspects, printed body parts, I wanna be signed up for a lung now please. But it is true, they are printing human tissue and body parts, http://www.zdnet.com/3d-printing-of-real-human-tissue-7000006723/ (http://www.zdnet.com/3d-printing-of-real-human-tissue-7000006723/)
Quote from: revgms on March 15, 2013, 06:22:01 AMI'd also bet in thirty years we can just print hemp/chronic just another molecule.
It could be my psychedelic worldview getting in the way of rational thought, but it seems to me that living things are not just collections of molecules flying in formation and the act of trying to reduce them to their constituent "active compounds" is not only disrespectful, it's fucking dangerous. We keep receiving that lesson over and over again, but we never learn it.
We don't need high zoot science to get high, or to eat. Let us not fuck with thousands of years of beautiful tradition. 8)
Nope, we are no different than machines, all that you think you are is just an operating system, just like windows or mac. There is nothing in this universe that is made of anything special, just simple building blocks arranged in complicated forms giving the appearance of being "alive".
You are just atoms arranged in interesting and novel ways. Same for everything else in the universe. There are no souls, just wetware computers, we are a few years if not minutes away from realizing our machines (processors) are "alive". There is no difference between you me and a rock, we are all the universe, we are all the big bang, this is just what the big bang looks like from this perspective at this point in time. What I am saying is not aspiritual, it is all inclusive spirituality, we are all one, every atom, every watt of energy.
As far as the "Frankenstein" problem goes, there is no problem, not from the whole's perspective, only if you have some attachment to humans, which I gave up years ago and have been free ever since. We are not special, nor are our creations, they just are. Just being, no attachment. I see zero problem if humanity goes extinct and is replaced by robots, it is just evolution, do we cry over the stars that died to give us the iron in our blood? And nothing will cry when we go extinct leaving the universe either the singularity or robot life.
Quote from: revgms on March 15, 2013, 09:30:11 AM
Nope, we are no different than machines, all that you think you are is just an operating system, just like windows or mac.
I'm a pantheist, so have no trouble with the concept of unity. But I can't get all fanboi googly over science, and I flatly reject the absurd reductionism of modern science as it is practiced and preached by those of immature intellect and its attendant outrageous arrogance.
In a way it's a a lot of fun but I can't help thinking of the advice of the Tao Te Ching 'lead a simple life. Don't be too clever.'
Quote from: Boston Rockbury on March 15, 2013, 12:30:20 PM
In a way it's a a lot of fun but I can't help thinking of the advice of the Tao Te Ching 'lead a simple life. Don't be too clever.'
Amen, Dude. 8)
We are not being cleaver, we are slaves to our DNA, it demands this of us. What could be simpler than to allow evolution to proceed as it will?
Consciousness is interesting, but it is not more special than the matter and energy that gave rise to it. The Tao also says to seek the bottom, find the low places and flow like water, in this case that is recognizing we are just energy flowing, to cling to the ego, which is what you suggest, it is like trying to climb out of the valley.
Ponder this, are your atoms and cells there to serve you, the ego/consciousness, or is the consciousness there to serve the atoms and cells? What if everything we think we are is just an operating system developed by cells to increase their success? Because they can, just like atoms form molecules simply just because they can, and molecules form cells, just because it is possible.
Just being is all it takes for energy to become all that we know, as the Tao that does nothing but leaves nothing undone. In this, probable foam universe, all things exist at all times, there is never a moment in which you do not exist in one universe or another, not that time means anything on that level. So you exist in infinite configurations, and somewhere in some universe, you are Batman. What matters is existence, not how we perceive it, that only matters to us.
In the end we can really know nothing about the truth of reality, we can not escape the "brain in a vat". Where does that leave us? Nihilism? No, it doesn't matter that we can not know the truth, what matters is how we interact with our reality, true or not. Like the man said, the poison is illusory, and the cure is illusory, so why take the cure? Because we feel it, what matters is our perceptions, true or not, but only to us, and only here and now. The business of understanding our perceptions is science, beyond that we just don't know Dude.
Which all leads me to some question, imagine we are just doing what energy did, what atoms have done and what we experience life doing, and us creating is simply because it is possible. We are acting like every other "thing" in this universe, simple things, doing complicate things for no reason other than that is what we do. AI maybe what energy created atoms to achieve, and we are just the instruments, not the conductors. Because there are no conductors shit just happens.
Finally what I am saying, back on topic, is, energy is energy, atoms are atoms and printed living tissue is living tissue. Further, the brain is a processor, and when AI has an univalent processor, when we talk to it it will be processor to processor and our whole idea of what life and conscious are will be challenged.
Quote from: revgms on March 15, 2013, 06:36:52 PMFurther, the brain is a processor, and when AI has an univalent processor, when we talk to it it will be processor to processor and our whole idea of what life and conscious are will be challenged.
So, you're way into this stuff then, huh? Cool. 8)
This thing that considers itself just a tad more than a "wetware computer" is going for Chinese takeout now, might pop into the liquor store next door to the Chinese place to acquire a bit of solvent to clean the circuitry. Have a fine $period_of_day->(locale($coordinates), time());