Jul 29
Slingshot master Joerg Sprave has shown off not only the most powerful
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Jul 25
By now we’ve had a few months to come to terms with the fact that, yes, 3D printed guns exist
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Jul 23
You may remember our friend Destin at Smarter Every Day shooting an AK-47 underwater
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Jul 19
Do you have the insatiable desire to shoot a drone out of the sky? Well, since a community in Colorado is full of people
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Jul 14
After last night’s decision in the Trayvon Martin case, many Americans errupted
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Jul 12
Do you love westerns? If you have answered in the affirmative, then I am quite sure that you would have enjoyed Disney’s The Lone Ranger that is showing on the silver screens at the moment. Heck, you might even want to get a gun of your own after that, although depending on the country that you live in, doing so might not be that easy as you would like to think. Still, there are other ways to “protect” yourself, or being a nuisance to others, and the £29.99 Bandit Guns is definitely one of them.
The Bandit Guns are made out of precision laser-cut design, where you can choose from three different modes of shooting. There is also the unspoken satisfaction deep down within when you construct your own ‘piece’, sort of like how a Jedi padawan works on his or her own lightsaber with crystal shards, where no two lightsabers are the same. With the Bandit Guns, you are able to hit your friends and colleagues with up to 10 bands in a single shot, now how about that? Just be mature enough not to point it at someone’s face and you should be good to go. What’s that? Nerf vs Bandit guns? Bring ‘em on, I say!
[ Bandit Guns bring the inner child in you out copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Jul 04
The last time we checked in with Patrick Priebe he’d crafted a replica of the Dead Space plasma cutter
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Jun 28
Just because a piece of glass might claim to be "bulletproof" doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s actually, well, bulletproof. But if your bullet-resistant glass is sturdy enough, that speeding bullet will usually just end up lodged in layers of polycarbonate. That’s what intrigues photographer Deborah Bay.
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Jun 26
A Danish company called Create It Real has built a software package that recognizes digital gun part models and prevents them from being printed. The software compares each piece you are attempting to print with a database of potential firearm parts and, the company notes, “for safety reasons, there are no models of firearms stored on the user’s computer but rather a list of characteristics.”
The CEO, Jeremie Pierre Gay, has created a proof-of-concept add-on to his turnkey, OEM 3D printing software that he is using to offering to other firms who would like to brand and sell a 3D desktop printer. “It will be possible make it as a service or integrate into another platform,” he said.
The program shuts down the modeling software if it senses that the user is trying to print a gun. Presumably this functionality can be shut down by the user and similar prohibitions – the algorithms that prevent the printing of currency in Photoshop – are often easily avoided. In short, Gay’s creation reduces liability for the printer manufacturer.
They have thus far input the data for the Liberator 3D printed handgun created by Defense Distributed as well as DefDist’s lower receiver part. However, they’re ready to add more parts to the package as they appear.
“We’ve made a test to make sure it will scale up to a much bigger database of parts,” said Gay. “It should be quite fast to actually check the model against the database.”
To Gay, the issue is less about gun control and more about management of risk. The system, for example, will allow a child to print a water gun but will stop him or her before they can print a real gun. It also allows Gay’s clients to add warnings to 3D printing processes so the printer maker can’t be held responsible.
“We are in the business of selling technology to quickly launch a desktop 3D printer,” said Gay. “If a buyer wants to print a gun, we want to be sure the 3D printer makers are not the ones responsible for it.”
The company is quite small and they are working with partners to bring their solutions to market. However, it’s an interesting solution to a thorny problem and shows just how complex the issue of 3D printing may soon become.
Jun 24
The AK-47 can be considered the Timex watch of the gun world. It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking, except that by ticking we of course mean firing round after round of ammunition. The automatic machine gun is based on a gas recoil system that uses the hot expanding gases of a bullet being fired to automatically rechamber the next round, and surprisingly, it appears to work even better under water.
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