Just printing the second half now, slackarse. :D
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Yah, suspect some of the things i'd like to try one day would have to be assembled from many sections."Where can we get hold of a Vincent Black Shadow?" "Whats that?" "A fantastic bike," I said. "The new model is something like two thousand cubic inches, developing two hundred brake-horsepower at four thousand revolutions per minute on a magnesium frame with two styrofoam seats and a total curb weight of exactly two hundred pounds."Comment
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Done.
It'll need a bit of cleaning up in the corners to get the fine detail & smoothness you want though.
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^ thats pretty cool.
just needs moar chrome!
oh and spotted this
http://www.popsci.com.au/diy/tools/a...tronic-gadgets
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For a long time now, the ability to print electronic circuitry and components on commercially available 3D printers has been viewed as the development that will thrust 3D printing out of its current nascent maker space and into the mainstream of both manufacturing and home fabrication. And while it's already been demonstrated on specialized printers in the lab, researcher at the University of Warwick in the UK have developed a low-cost material they've named "carbomorph" that is conductive, piezoresistive, and printable in currently available, consumer-affordable 3D printers.
Carbomorph is essentially a carbon filler within a matrix of biodegradable polyester, a medium that can pass through the printer head of a machine like the Bits and Bytes BFB3000 that the Warwick team has now used to create everything from touch-sensitive gaming controllers, a motion-sensing glove, and a mug that knows how much liquid is in it. These things are pretty far from printing, say, a smartphone or a computer in one go, yet they represent an important step forward.
For instance, using their multi-head printer the team fabricated its motion sensing glove from polylactic acid (or PLA, a kind of polyester derived form renewable resources like corn starch) and were able to embed it with strips of carbomorph. Because of its conductivity, the carbomorph can be connected to simple circuit boards and the like. And its piezoresistance means that when the strips are bent or otherwise stressed, their resistance changes - and that resistance can be measured by the aforementioned circuit board attached to the glove. The result is a 3D printed glove with embedded sensor architecture that knows the degree to which the fingers are extended or clenched.
This might be great for motion capture technology or something like that, but think of broader applications like game controllers that could not only be custom printed to fit a user's hand, but that could also tell not only that the user is pressing a button but how firmly or softly the button is being pressed. This would open up whole new avenues of controllability, enhancing the way we interface with our electronics. With the ability to embed piezoelectric resistance into the very construction of our smartphones, television remotes, and other gadgetry, there are all kinds of opportunities to improve tactile control of electronic interfaces.
The next step here, of course, is the printing of more complex electronic structures, things like wires and cables and eventually batteries and circuit boards themselves, so the final product that rolls out of a 3D printer is actually a final product. That's likely still a ways off, but the fact that the Warwick team has embedded electronic sensing capacity into products printed on consumer machines bodes well for that future."Comment
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Thanks Heaps!! I was thinking of sanding it down and maybe trying to coat it with spray putty and then more sanding. I got a price from chrometech of $100 to replate the original badge. Since badges in worse condition where selling for over than on ebay i wasnt going to risk sending an original badge and having it get damaged.Comment
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Nice print Bill
That should clean up easy for a finish.“Buy the ticket, take the ride.’”
― Hunter S. ThompsonComment
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Now the trick is to get it to you .... I ran out of time this morning to post it from home, I'm now in Maryborough and will be in Blackwater tomorrow arvo. I'll try to post it from there. Failing that, I'll be in Mackay on Thursday and can post it then.Comment
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No rush mate, in your own time
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Erm .... in Emerald right now, couldn't get a room in Blackwater.
I'll try to find a post office somewhere tomorrow to get it on the way.Comment
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Idiot American politicians are shitting themselves about this now, link. This prawn seems to think you could make a gun with no metal at all! Hmm, what about the barrel and ammo? I certainly wouldn't want to fire a pistol with a plastic barrel.
Even if it was single use, like this one from "In the Line of Fire" I still wouldn't want to be the person holding it if it blew up.
Having said that, I'm sure with enough brain cycles devoted to it, someone will perfect it. Since the project has already been promoted, it's too late to put the genie back in the bottle.“Buy the ticket, take the ride.’”
― Hunter S. ThompsonComment
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theres a rumour that the KGB had an undetectable plastic pistol in the 80s (but it was electric) called a 'Troika'
i wonder how much of it is true though (might be along the same lines as the ceramic CIA one)Comment
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Billzilla, I'm first in line for a 3d printed BB gun.Comment
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