3D Printing lowering costs!

"In 2017, the Marine Corps will 3D print certain parts for their most sought after rotorcraft." This is a statement made by the Marine Corps claiming to start the production of multiple pieces their air crafts need. This will help improve the situation america has with the amount of money used and put into their military annually. 

This image alone proves how much money the US puts into their military and even though 3D printing will not even come close to reducing this number a huge amount it will still help and is the first steps towards making military costs lower. I find that not only is 3D printing helping for production but this is the first look towards 3D printing being used on aircrafts in the military. The US tax dollars could be used towards other problems in the US rather than the huge amount needed for production of the parts necessary with the planes which in the long run can help a lot of people in need if they have more money to put towards the citizens and not so much defense. The US has been able to use 3D printing to create a wrench to make oil changes on a plane without taking the plane apart even if that does not seem to be much that means it can be a lot safer for engineers of the army and also a lot easier and cheaper to take care of the planes used in the US air force. My point stands that I find not only will it help the way the tax dollars are used but it can offer much more protection at a lower cost.

http://sputniknews.com/us/20160621/1041650795/3d-printing-lowers-repair-costs.html

3D printing jobs!

Getting jobs these days is very difficult some may even call it a crisis and the downfall and end to our economy along with production rates. 3D printing has been a way to eliminate jobs and it has changed the world of production but there is a company by the name Renishaw plans to revolutionize India's production.

«Global engineering company Renishaw has just announced it will be opening a new metal Additive Manufacturing Solutions Center in Pune, India.». Renishaw plans to open a manufacturing company in India and I find that will bring old businesses back to life giving multiple jobs to many poor people of the area. I find that jobs are very scarce and also that not many opportunity's to be apart of a huge 3D printing company exist. This company offers 340 jobs and I find that not only will that change people's lives and give money to the workers to feed their family's but it will also bring life to an abandoned building not in use anymore. We as a community need to start bringing old buildings back to use the space we have already taken which would lead towards less wildlife being destroyed. I say all of this just to prove that by this one company opening up one location it gives tones of jobs to poor people in the region which is currently a problem in India. These new jobs will help India improve their economy and help the citizens get back on their feet, although this is just one company making one location for only 320 jobs it still does have a huge impact and is a step closer towards everyone having a stable job.

http://www.renishaw.com/en/renishaw-opens-new-additive-manufacturing-solutions-centre-in-india--38927

Printing liquids and solids

Hello and welcome to my fifth post here will be my thoughts and ideas on a new discovery done on 3D printing. MIT or Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found out how to print liquids but not only that they are capable of printing liquids while also printing solids.

CSAIL director Daniela Rus has said "We have a 3D printer that can lay out either solids or liquids, and then we have an algorithm that decides when the printer should put down a water droplet or solid droplet. This allows us to create objects that were not possible to create before".I find that this new technology will allow us to expand our knowledge and capabilities on a major scale. It simply amazes me how people are able to invent such amazing things and improve them by so much. I find 3D printing my be the new way of manufacturing anything for example cars we would now be able to fill the car with all the necessary fluids and print the rest in solid.

In this video it shows the process of which the robot is printed and the video also mentions that not only does it print all the pieces but you also don't need to assemble anything! All you need is a motor and battery. That blows my mind thinking we have gotten to a point where we are capable of printing a whole robot with a click of a button. I really do hope in the future we are capable of even printing the batteries and motors so we could automate production rates on a way bigger scale too like printing out a car you can get in and drive away directly after printing but I also do look forward to writing another blog cause this one seems to be coming to an end :( thank you for reading !


Sources:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mit-breakthrough-3d-printing-technique-can-print-out-solids-liquids-same-time-1553255

Illegal printing

Here lies post number 4 this post will explain how 3D printer gives the capabilities to many people to print illegal products or contraband such as fire arms or even other types of weapons.I find that printing and distributing firearms and weapons should be illegal and should be controlled to a certain extent of what you are allowed and aren't allowed to print. A debate done on debate.org shows that 59% do think that 3D printing guns should be illegal, even though that is for positive I find that is still a very close margin  with the opposing side being against making 3D printing guns illegal having 41%. I find that 3D printers should be limited in a way where people should not be able to print certain blueprints.

In this image you can see the first 3D printed gun which the creator Cody Wilson has named "The liberator". Cody has developed this and argues that "the Liberator demonstrates governments' inability to enforce gun control", I find that his statement is very true although I do not agree with him releasing the blueprint to the public. As of now the blueprint is no longer distributed but people now know this is possible and it could cause the government to make a law against it. I find that just like any other contraband as seen a lot with drugs there always a market that will be created to distribute the product illegally.

All in all I think these 3D printed guns should be a bigger concern because considering they are made of plastic metal detectors would not detect that these guns are being smuggled. I also do find that these guns will prove points to many people that 3D printers aren't just a toy or a game it's a machine that can create destruction. 

Links:
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mhl45ediih/a-symbolic-weapon/ 
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-3d-printed-guns-be-illegal

We could be seeing another Industrial revolution!

 Here lies my post that is in fact the third one I make on 3D printing in this post I will be talking mainly about the comparison between the industrial revolution and what 3D printing will become and what resembles between both of them.

In this article it mentions "It was in 1909 when Henry Ford, master of efficiency and standardization, famously said that a “customer can have a car painted any color…so long as it is black.” While the First Industrial Revolution introduced machines to replace hand labor, Ford helped usher in what was ultimately the principle of mass production; using those machines to produce large quantities of standardized products — an era that came to be known as the Second Industrial Revolution" although that quote is very long I think it is necessary to get my point across we are currently seeing an incredible way of manufacturing and mass producing products while occupying very minimal space, Henry ford has shown us and proved that there are huge leaps in fabrications of products like assembly lines which were perfected by Henry Ford during the year of 1913 when they started producing the Ford model T.

During this past decade we have seen many breakouts in technology but we have never seen an invention as big as the possibility of virtually designing something and then printing a 3D physical copy. I find that people don't fully understand what's happening at this point in time if we take this into perspective if you look how massive a Ford assembly line is and how many people it takes to run it sometimes it'll result in an average of 100+ people in a assembly line for cars and if we look at how many people it'll take to just click a button to print a car and watch out I could assume maybe on average 5-10 workers will be needed to print multiple cars in ideal circumstances.

A whole company by the name of local motors has devoted there time to create 3D printed cars which they has concepts and even prototypes already printed that can drive but are not street legal. Anyways my point here is we could be experiencing another industrial revolution which may hurt the amount of jobs but will also have many pros to it including faster production less pollution and even less space taken to create the work environment.

Here is a video of the process..

Anyways my point here is we could be experiencing another industrial revolution which may hurt the amount of jobs but will also have many pros to it including faster production less pollution and even less space taken to create the work environment

Medical advancements

Here lies post number 2 of my blog this blog post will touch on a medical invention and will give info and help the reader learn about one of the most major and recent discoveries doctors have found out how to create and make 3D printed body parts and tissues. This quote from [Link] is very informative on what we really have created with these printers "3D printing isn't just for toys and models -- doctors at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced yesterday that they've managed to 3D print "living" tissue and organs that functioned properly when implanted in animals". I find that these kind of technological and medical leaps is what keeps us striving to continue research and keeps some unfortunate people in hope. In the article it mentions that we have already began animal trials and will most likely start human trials soon. In my opinion I think that if we are capable of printing organs and tissues it can go positively and negatively. The positives is that we will be able to help so many people that we weren't able to help before and we could offer all sorts of new types of health care. The negatives is that they can be taken advantage of in multiples ways and by that I mean they can be sold for a lot more to make profit also they can have unpredictable effects on the body. All in all I think that this invention will help so many lives in so many ways and it is the next step forward to an easier way of living, to conclude my thoughts I find this medical leap is gonna really help and gonna open a lot of doors for other doctors to do research and continue making our lives easier.

This is an image of a 3D printed ear

Intro to my blog on 3D printers 2016

Welcome to my blog, here will lie my ideas, thoughts and opinions of 3D printing. Along the duration of this semester I will post negatives and positives of my subject all while giving my opinion and my thoughts of what 3D printing has and will do for our society today. I have thought about 3D printers and how others perceive them, some people find they are just for little gizmos and toys but these printers on a large scale can make anything from pieces for cars or even another 3D printer. These revolutionary items come with negatives too these machine cost a hefty penny, not only that but they do take time to print just like printers of today they have taken time to perfect and we constantly find new ways of improving them as I assume will be the case with the 3D printers of today. This technological breakthrough will support and greatly improve our medical practices and our medical needs, not only can these printers make and produce prototypes they can even fasten how quickly we are capable or testing these prototypes. Older cars and machines also referred as antiques that are missing pieces that aren't produces nowadays can now start being made in your own basement! 3D printers can make it print any blueprint you give it via your computer. I find these printers can help in making our lives cheaper in the long run, imagine a world where you don't need to go to the store to purchase the missing link to whatever you could be building or fixing all you need to do is plug in your printer and in a few moments you will be given whatever you demand. In just the next few years we could be looking at a machine that will allows us to produce tones of product all while saving space and even power. These printers have and will continue changing our future immensely.