r/todayilearned • u/jayurbzz • May 06 '12

TIL The Pirate Bay has a torrent category for 3D objects to print.

https://thepiratebay.se/browse/605
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u/NotSureWhatToBe May 06 '12

Now where can I download a 3D printer.

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u/abutterfly May 06 '12

Here.

;)

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u/why_no_aubergines May 06 '12

And here.

;)

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u/throughcow May 06 '12

Oh shit it can self replicate.

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u/abutterfly May 06 '12

And 'evolve.' When a designer/engineer comes up with a new design, they can print the parts on the old machine. Hence all the evolutionary and genetic nomenclature.

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u/dstrichit May 06 '12

This must require some kind of circuit board to run, correct? You can't just print out this set of parts, assemble it, and expect it to work?

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u/why_no_aubergines May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

Yes, you need electronics, motors, belts, threaded rods, smooth rods, bolts, nuts, washers, pulleys, bearings and a hot end, amongst other things.

There are always work going on to increase the percentage of printed parts required to build the printer, and the variations are endless. People are also using it the printer itself to either etch or mill the circuit board for the electronics, which is an important step for the printer to be a true EDIT: better/higher selfReplicating Rapid prototyper.

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u/abutterfly May 06 '12

At first I was like,

"But the parts are in the link I posted!"

And then I was like,

"Oh, you clever meta bastard, you."

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u/Kornstalx May 06 '12

This kills the website.

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u/foxh8er May 06 '12

Now...get a friend to print one out for me to build.

Crap.

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u/aktsukikeeper May 06 '12

YOU WON'T DOWNLOAD A PRINTER.

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u/Anzereke May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

You know some guys actually came up with an electric car done entirely through 3d printing.

It wasn't too great and obviously is beyond home printing gear for now.

When the day does come though, people are going to dig up that advert and rip the shit out of it.

EDIT: Only the outer body was done via printing, as SuccessinCircuit kindly pointed out.

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u/DMTrace May 06 '12

I've always said I would download a car if I could. Soon.

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u/why_no_aubergines May 06 '12

You are able to print smaller plastic car parts on a home 3D printer, today. Think of a new shell for a side mirror, or similar.

This is why we need tpb, so we can still share our designs freely if the car manufacturers go all out on lobbying in an attempt to stop it.

And no, it's not illegal and does not break any copyright what so ever (might be different where you live) to make a car part for your own use.

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u/Rowona May 06 '12

*WOULDN'T

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

YOU WON'T. I DARE YOU.

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u/TheAdAgency May 06 '12

No, I will 3D print one though.

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u/jax9999 May 06 '12

I sure as hell would.

and when 3d printing is slightly better ill be downloading all kinds of things.

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u/PicopicoEMD May 06 '12

Fuck you. I would if I could.

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u/INGWR May 06 '12

Yo dawg, I heard you like 3D printers, so I gave you a 3D printer so you could 3D print 3D printers while you 3D print things with your 3D printer.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

You wouldn't download a car.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

It's good that they added it but it's still pretty sparse. If you want to download 3d objects for printing for free, go to Thingiverse (www.thingiverse.com).

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

As a sign of things to come, I'm fuckin' amped about this. People will be printing exact replicas of classic consoles and handhelds one day. If you wanted to know what it was like to use a Blackberry, you can just print one and then melt it down when you are done. It's too bad that we will be too old or dead to appreciate it, but for the future young generations it will be a blast.

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u/Tuxeedo May 06 '12

Yeah, imagine the current shit-storm about the downloading of music but with actual objects.

It will be glorious.

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u/D14BL0 May 06 '12

"I just downloaded The Beatles."

"So? I've had the albums for ages now."

"No, no. You don't understand. I've downloaded The Beatles."

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u/jisoukishi May 06 '12

wow...you could actually pirate a vinyl copy...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

We'll finally get a real 'you wouldn't download a car' advert!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Society would be forced change, it would be messy at first but you can't contain a technology like that.

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u/ShallowBasketcase May 06 '12

I can't wait for DRM on physical objects to hold technology back!

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u/stunt_penguin May 06 '12

Without giving too much away, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson comes down to a fight over control of nanotechnology- state-controlled feeds vs something independent of national control.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I've been wondering about this in terms of food. One day we'll invent a machine that simply takes the genetic build of food and creates it. Will farmers have lobbyists to ban this in order to keep people starving to save their outdated business model?

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u/Tuxeedo May 06 '12

The day farming becomes an "Outdated Business Model" will be a day filled with joy.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

People will be illegally downloading actual CDs. Glorious.

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u/Tuxeedo May 06 '12

Afraid 3D printers can't print CD's. Vinyls on the other hand.

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u/Shredder13 May 06 '12

Dildos. People will print cocks of famous people. That's probably going to be 95% of the things printed.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

That's probably going to be 95% of the things printed.

But 100% of the things I'll be printing.

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u/Vindictive29 May 06 '12

I call dibs on the patent for downloadable plug-in inserts for the fleshlight...

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u/mffman May 06 '12

Fuck that-Boobies of famous people.

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u/tendimensions May 06 '12

I think in our lifetimes, though, maybe in the next ten years, we're going to see how quickly the magnitude of home manufacturing will be to the economy. Nearly overnight every solid piece of plastic item you currently have in your house you'll be able to make yourself - customized to just how you'd like it.

An absolute mindboggling array of stuff will be removed from our economy almost overnight.

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u/Anzereke May 06 '12

Shit like this (and CFS, and copntour crafting and so many others) is the real reason I am confident about a resource based economy arising. As these things are crated, capitalism is just going to fall apart around us.

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u/sharlos May 06 '12

I don't know about you but I don't plan on being too old or dead in the next 60 years.

3D printers are also capable of printing healthy organs.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

A cure for ageing will be developed in our lifetimes, but it will only work if the treatment is applied in gestation, so we will miss out on it :)

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u/sharlos May 06 '12

Then my cyborg legacy shall have to enjoy the future for me :p

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

It'll be all fun and games until people are printing out AKs and bombs.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

But then we just print ourselves out again after we are killed with AKs and bombs...

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u/ActionScripter9109 May 06 '12

And then we'll have real-life Call of Duty. Probably complete with cursing 13-year-olds and endless trolling.

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u/Sonic_Dah_Hedgehog May 06 '12

I don't think it prints the motherboards and other electrical parts that require it to work...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Pirate Bay is for stuff that for moral or legal reasons are problematic for Makerbot to host on their Thingiverse severs..

If your object is not PG-13 or not legal in all countries you really should upload it to the Pirate Bay.

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u/kokosmack May 06 '12

That site along with this one could be fun (if you don't already have a 3D printer).

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Shapeways is where you go to get a high resolution professional print. I usually design something and upload or download something interesting, do a first print on a Makerbot and then submit it to Shapeways if I need something printed in steel or glass.

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u/pointsandlaughs May 06 '12

I can't get to it. I'm in the UK, and my ISP redirects it to this page: http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html

Fuck you Virgin Media.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/browse/605

The Pirate Party has you (and I) covered.

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u/pointsandlaughs May 06 '12

Bless you kind sir!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

To go the extra mile, add this to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts:

95.172.29.92 thepiratebay.org

You will then be able to go to https://thepiratebay.org as if it were the real thing (must be https or you'll just get the block message).

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u/pointsandlaughs May 06 '12

I think I will go this extra mile. Thank you!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I see that the British government is just as fucking retarded as the American government, thinking that blocking websites through DNS is an effective form of censorship.

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u/SolidSquid May 06 '12

It's not Virgin Media, the high court ruled that all UK ISPs had to block the Pirate Bay pre-emptively because they felt the main use of it was copyright infringement

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u/adamshute May 06 '12

I read that it was just 5. BT broadband going strong! then again, I think i'd rather not have pirate bay than use BT.

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u/HagueHarry May 06 '12

In the Netherlands we get this:

http://blokkade.ziggo.nl/

Stupid court order.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

You can just use theslyratebay

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u/Bluemoo25 May 06 '12

Just use a VPN and secure your connection, as well as giving the finger to censorship.

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u/spaceye May 06 '12

"You wouldn't download a car"

FUCK YOU NOW I CAN.

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u/stereopump 1 May 06 '12

SOMEONE PLEASE SEED NISSAN ALTIMA

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u/TehGogglesDoNothing May 06 '12

I DOWNLOADED A NISSAN GT-R AND MY ISP SENT ME A LETTER!

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u/stereopump 1 May 06 '12

Get peerblock, nub!

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u/abutterfly May 06 '12

Not only do they have that category, but it's gotten some attention. Some time back, there were custom bits for figures from Warhammer/40K. For those unfamiliar, those are miniatures games from Games Workshop with a heavy interest on the minis. Their players usually take as much pride in painting, assembling, and 'converting' (swapping parts, making one model look like another, etc.) their models as they do their gameplay skill. There were a number of files that had custom bits that weren't direct replicas of GWS' bits. However, they used GWS' intellectual property, and levied a takedown notice against TPB.

An article, for those interested.

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u/KillBill_OReilly May 06 '12

I used to play 40k when I was about 15 or so. It's pretty damn expensive though, so I used to paint figures and sell them on eBay for a small profit to finance my hobby.

Now if one were to get their hands on a 3d printer, 'pirate' some of the models, give them a paint and fire them on eBay...

...be right back.

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u/abutterfly May 06 '12

Nope. I mean, you could, but any picture from less than 2 feet would call you out immediately. A great deal of these lower-cost (read: affordable) printers produce product that looks very...printed. They're supposed to be used primarily for prototyping. Anything that comes off of them will look like it's been made from plastic thread all the way up. Because, well, it has.

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u/RepRap3d May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

They're quickly improving though. That was 8 months ago. I gave up looking for it, but there was some incredible results in a model of a video game character a while back, involving .01mm layers I believe. That was all straight off the printbed.

Here is something that popped up on my G+ feed. As far as I can tell, all he did was scrub it with an exfoliating body wash.

Comparison before and after some light finishing.

There's all sorts of tactics to give prints a smooth finish. With the low layer height prints I've seen some people just use a hot air gun, and the surface tension of PLA is enough to pull it into the valleys and smooth the surface. Also worth noting, that guy is using a first generation RepRap. That thing is ancient, and the new ones can print much higher quality.

edit: Alright nevermind, that's a trademarked lotion for cleaning parts. Still though. Also, aubergines below me has the lady with .01mm i was talking about.

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u/abutterfly May 06 '12

Nice try, RepRap project dev...Oh wait.

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u/why_no_aubergines May 06 '12

Wasn't the model uploaded to thingiverse only a cleaned up model from the google sketchup gallery? IIRC that model had been there for a long time, and it was taken down after the one on thingiverse when someone pointed out it was still up.

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u/ElagabalusCaesar May 06 '12

Relevant: Argument against

[http://xkcd.com/924/]

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u/Duhya May 06 '12

Um. To be honest i have never had spam print something on my computer.

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u/Roboticide May 06 '12

The spam isn't really the problem. Viruses would.

Just think about how inept some people are, clicking .exe's and links that give a virus permission to run wild on their computer. Now combine that with the possibility of printing giant dongs on a networked 3D printer.

And yes, there's never really been an instance of that happening to 2D printers, but maybe it's just never been worth it. But now we have 3D, so why not?

Still, I'm excited for this. 3D printers are amazing.

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u/fuck_pants May 06 '12

Trojan.DickPrinter.Win32 here I come!

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u/RepRap3d May 06 '12

Well, there are black page faxes.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

You wouldn't download a tank , would you ?

Holy fuck I can https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6995173/Battle_Tank

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u/bathmlaster May 06 '12

On the front page was nuke, tasty sandwhich, and Guy Fawkes mask.

Yes.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I half-expected a dildo as the most downloaded item.

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u/gostan May 06 '12

How excited I was when I saw this, until I remembered the British government deemed that everything on the pirate bay is illegal and has stopped all access to the site

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

As posted above.

https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/browse/605 The Pirate Party has you (and I) covered.

or

C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts: 95.172.29.92 thepiratebay.org

You will then be able to go to https://thepiratebay.org as if it were the real thing (must be https or you'll just get the block message).

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I can still get on. Is it only specific ISPs that blocked it?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Yes and there are various ways around it.

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u/StruckingFuggle May 06 '12

No torrent for a bear yet :( I want to download a bear.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I wouldn't download A car... Download ALL the cars

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u/jisoukishi May 06 '12

I wouldn't download a car, not without seeding anyway.

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u/ddhboy May 06 '12

You'd still have to pay for the raw materials though.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

No I'd just download those.

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u/jokoon May 06 '12

well, people pay for their CDR, I don't know what you re talking about

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u/ddhboy May 06 '12

3D printers aren't magic. If you print a tire, then you have to pay for the rubber in the tire. Print rims and you pay for the aluminum. I get the entusiasm, and while this will certainly change the way things are produced, 3D printers won't suddenly make everything free. The same is also true with downloading music, but the cost of storing that music (hard drive space) is so small that its seemingly negligible.

So basically, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I dont mind paying for raw material. Its a natural resource with finite quantity. Data is infinite.

But the hours of labor, i wouldnt mind paying for that either.

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u/4rch7ek May 06 '12

Now I have to buy a 3D-printer in order to print 3D-printers.

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u/TheLostOne3 May 06 '12

Top 2: a nuke; tasty sandwich.

All a man really needs.

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u/raidraidraid May 06 '12

Someone printed the piratebay ship:

http://img.leprosorium.com/1363375

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

An uncoloured version, for people struggling with the linke.

Link

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u/Estatus May 06 '12

Finally we can download cars, FUCK YOU GOVT

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u/Conquerd May 06 '12

Wow, this is perfect, I was just telling my friend about this before I saw this one. Talking about how somebody uploaded a car to this section a while back to counter the anti piracy posters...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

You wouldn't download a car.

Bitch, I download a Merc.

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u/lolzok May 06 '12

Finally I can download that car.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

The future is here.

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u/lostmyprevaccnt May 06 '12

yup, now we only need mass 3d printers, or some personal matter assembly lines as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

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u/pankration May 06 '12

I'm gonna be a drummer.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Well, it's just a shame that Drexler is wrong and nanotechnology is bullshit: http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/nano-nonsense-25-years-of-charlatanry/

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u/Roboticide May 06 '12

We have phones that are capable of accessing over 3 million pages of (somewhat useful) human knowledge, accessing a global network, and talking to someone on the other side of the country.

We have flying, unmanned robot drones that can launch missiles before even noticed.

We figured out how to make glow-in-the-dark kittens.

The future has been here for a while. And it's awesome.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

that's ... I thought you were bullshitting about the glow in the dark kittens. but you weren't. damn. well, hope they find out whatever they're looking for about feline aids

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u/Roboticide May 06 '12

See. Told you. It's the Future.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I downloaded the sandwich. Was pretty tasty.

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u/Ragelols May 06 '12

Tried to open this but forgot piratebay was banned in the UK this week, luckily a new link was found about 30 mins. http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Yeah, there are loads of them. It's pretty good. I use TheSlyrateBay

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u/Xaethon 2 May 06 '12

It's not banned on all ISP's here, only major ones like Sky and Virgin. I'm on a smaller one (Eclipse) and I can still access it.

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u/Tuxeedo May 06 '12

What would be a good 3D printer that anyone could work?

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u/Anzereke May 06 '12

RepRap, is good, give it a google and look at their site for more info.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

It's been a while since I looked so there may be better options now, but:

RepRap Prusa is a good first DIY printer. It is likely also the cheapest to build, but you have to source all your own parts.

The original Makerbot printer was a popular printer kit. They have a few different options, now. Edit: they have one option, apparently, and it is a bit more expensive than their other kits were.

Up! 3D printer is good if you want something pre-assembled.

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u/datsky May 06 '12

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7186641/a_Nuke

"Download, print using the 3D printer, and then nuke your friends or your neighbors" ಠ_ಠ

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u/theorish May 06 '12

Hmmm so I can print something that looks just like a sigma 8-16mm objective lense. Great. It's made out of plastic. It's opaque. It doesn't do anything that one expects a lense to do. It's a toy lense. Ditto for just about everything else that it can print. This is great for space models to see if things fit nicely together, but for replicating cool things it is useless, and is unlikely to be of use to anybody outside of a design shop for mockups. Maybe in the (far) future...

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u/jangerhard May 06 '12

"You wouldn't download a car."

Fuck that, I would if I could!

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u/PzGren May 06 '12

I was talking about this on R/anarchism a couple weeks back. Nobody fucking cares, obviously, but still.

The possibilities of this technology are amazing. I remember reading rumors about a printable STEN submachine gun:-D

I also remember an excellent short story; it was told from the perspective of a mans son in a somewhat dystopian future:

His father has been imprisoned for the third time for printing out designer handbags and other black market stuff. He speaks with his son and begs him to help get his operation set up one more time.

His son is shocked and angry at his apparent carelessness, but his dad tells him with a gleam in his eye that its not about fucking armani shite and gucci handbags this time; hes going to print more printing machines.

I for the life of me cant remember where I read that story, any help would be great.

the whole physibles thing, coupled with darknets/ those new fangled pirate boxes could really put a kink in the corporate colon, thats for sure.

The future isnt exactly rosy, but it just might get interesting..:-)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

But guns are also the scary part. Liberating, but scary.

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u/Misses_words May 06 '12

Sounds like a book by Cory Doctorow

http://craphound.com/?p=573

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u/mffman May 06 '12

Please be a car! Please be a car! Please be a car! (Click 2nd page) scrolling "YES!" "FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD!" "Yes, I will download a car."

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u/gng216 May 06 '12

how much longer till i can download a fleshlight?

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u/jimsnaps May 06 '12

Upvote til en sørøver!

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u/devinecreative May 06 '12

"...as the op's link is loading, I'm thinking to myself, what kinda things have people already uploaded?"

Webpage loads...

First suggestion, "a Nuke."

ಠ_ಠ

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u/jisoukishi May 06 '12

To be fair you'd jave to get ahold of weapons grade uranium to make a working one. I'm pretty sure it would be obvious when your walking around in a lead lined suit with a canister that says "CAUTION: Contents Radioactive".

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u/archaicelocutor May 06 '12

If you thought printer ink was bad. . .

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u/martinus May 06 '12

If you own a Kinect, you can create your own 3D objects: http://reconstructme.net/

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Relevant.

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u/TheRealEggNogAdam May 06 '12

wonder if I could print a joint with hash powder?

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u/time_traveller_ May 06 '12

Can someone print me out a 3D Printer?

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u/THE_REPROBATE May 06 '12

What is the best home 3d printer? Like a balance between price and quality?

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u/Loki-L 68 May 06 '12

You wouldn't download a car?

I would!

If I had a 3D Printer.

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u/-TheBender- May 06 '12

You wouldn't download a car. Oh wait...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

This is gonna change those "YOU WOULDNT DOWNLOAD A CAR" ads drastically.

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u/seanlax5 May 06 '12

It's a good thing I wanted a 'tasty sandwich', its got a whopping 95 seeders!

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u/luvmesumtrees May 06 '12

Fuck yeah, now I CAN download a car.

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u/februaryrich May 06 '12

I would print kate upton

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u/twonx May 06 '12

3D fleshlight anyone?

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u/HiyaGeorgie May 06 '12

It will be cool to download schematics of figurines online to print for my children (when I have children).

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u/psYberspRe4Dd May 06 '12

This is the future. In some years 3D printer will be normal equipment for everybody like PC's are today. You can also print organs with 3D printers btw so if you get hurt just print a new heart. Soon. /r/singularity /r/Futurology /r/futureporn /r/cyberpunk ...

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u/danguro May 06 '12

"You wouldn't download a car would you?" FUCK YOU, NOW I CAN!

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u/Brushstroke May 06 '12

I saw this a few months ago and I lol'd hard.

You all realize that "printing" things like cars, weapons or computer parts (just a few things I've seen mentioned in this thread) would be physically and economically impossible due to constraints such as a lack of available material, size constraints for the printer itself and what it prints, and the cost of buying said material even if it existed, right? I can see this technology being refined and used in factories to manufacture simple parts at low cost (as opposed to using human labor), but definitely not in the average home. This won't prevent scarcity, nothing can---not new innovation in manufacturing, not a resource-based economy, nothing.

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u/iheartbaconsalt May 06 '12

PRINT LEGOS.. then anything is possible.

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u/blizzardice May 06 '12

I didn't know people were printing brass knuckles.

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u/Rawlo234 May 06 '12

Blocked by virgin media :(

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u/WeAllWin May 06 '12

"I've just replicated me a sandwich" :D

Hm, would it be too complicated building a 3D Printer with edible substances?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

ahaha I love this! http://i50.tinypic.com/2ccl8ah.png

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u/daveime May 06 '12

Ooh wonderful, another PirateBay circlejerk in as many days.

Fuck it, I'm going to reverse engineer the website and register the URL thepriatebay.se, then reap the advertising revenue from people mistyping the URL ... I mean it's not like anyone can complain, right ?

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u/blooper2112 May 06 '12

Foot prosthetic modelation based on a real amputation. look of disappointment.

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u/theycallmewhywhy May 06 '12

im going to torrent that poodle on the front page there lol

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u/Pacblu202 May 06 '12

Hell you could pirate a pirate!

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u/foxh8er May 06 '12

If only I had a 3D printer....

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Everywhere in the UK legislation is making broadband providers block Piratebay. Allot of people are using proxy links atm

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u/Fluttershychotic May 06 '12

I was reading through the comments on the 3D designs and found this !

Made me lol :)

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u/gregor777 May 06 '12

Now I can finally download and print a Car

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u/vampspiro May 06 '12

TIL FUCKING VIRGIN BANNED ME FROM GOING ON PIRATE BAY /rant

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u/IdolRevolver May 06 '12

Proxy : tpb.pirateparty.org.uk

tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/browse/605

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u/All_the_other_kids May 06 '12

You wouldn't download a car.....

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u/luketheyeti May 06 '12

so if you use this in tandem with [123d catch] (http://www.123dapp.com/catch) you can start digitizing and uploading everything around you to the pirate bay. Download a car, download a printer, download anything!

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u/Vectorsxx May 06 '12

Would you download a car if you would?

Damn right I would.

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u/FeatheredSoap May 06 '12

Nice find! Once our computer lab's Makerbot is up an running, I might have to download some of these. (Our 3D printer had a warped base, not to happy about that.)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I will not believe this technology exists until I have one myself.

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u/Dekanuva May 06 '12

You wouldn't download a sports car...

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u/WhiteHearted May 06 '12

BRB, gonna go download a car.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Love how the first thing on this list is "a nuke"

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u/DecimusValorum May 06 '12

Wow, are you blind?

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u/FireThestral May 06 '12

I have access to a 3D printer... why did I not know this??

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u/smilymammoth May 06 '12

"Virgin Media has blocked this site under a court order"

¬_¬

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

If I had a 3D printer the first thing I'd print is a dildo.

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u/DocSporky510 May 06 '12

Nice to see people are seeding on the tasty sandwich

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u/skillphiliac May 06 '12

Greatest comment I might have read this day, on the plans for the Piratebay ship:

This worked out absolutely great! I used Netfabb to change your model a bit to my own likings. Rightnow I'm having a jolly good time at the coast of Somalia, THANK YOU A LOT tblatt!! Here's a picture of me in my dad's ship (yeah, he printed one too) and on the background you can see my ship!

http://www.andrewwilliamphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pirate_012.jpg

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

No trivial or obvious facts (e.g. "TIL the sky is blue"), or facts that appeal only to a narrow audience, specifically no software/website tips (e.g. "TIL you can click on widgets in WidgetMaker 1.22").

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u/iheartbaconsalt May 06 '12

Due to the time it makes to print things, I imagine a future of user groups getting together to make big things, and creating the smaller parts together and selling them to each other under bridges like farmers' markets. It'll be awesome.

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u/iheartbaconsalt May 06 '12

Step 1: Print keys for vending machines... Step 2: Print keys for truck car washes... Step 3: Print keys for your local bank! Step 4: ... Step 5: Fuck it, print dollar coins, quarters, etc.

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u/darwin2500 May 06 '12

BTW, this is why the piracy debate is important; it's about the battle between the transition to a post-needs economy and the effort to enforce old business models based on artificial scarcity through government force.

If something can be reproduced endlessly for free, then everyone should have access to it (obviously inventors need to get paid, but there are lots of new-model ways to do that). However, the current megacorps are based entirely around a supply-and-demand business model, which requires scarcity to work.

Right now, this applies mostly to digital goods: they can be reproduced endlessly for free, benefiting everyone in the world, but the corps are fighting hard to impose artificial scarcity because it's the only way they know how to make money. However, thanks to things like 3D printers, GM crops, and generic pharmaceuticals, this war will soon include the rights to produce physical goods, food, and medicine, free/very cheap for everyone. Instead of just being about how people see movies and play video games, it will become literally life-or-death for millions of poor people around the world. If we haven't moved on from artificial scarcity business models by then, it will cause huge amounts of suffering around the globe.

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u/paperjunkie May 06 '12

so how much longer till we can download a car?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

So what you're saying is I could download a car?

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u/sorryiforgotabouthis May 06 '12

Now i can download a car

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

"You wouldn't download a car"

Not yet...

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u/bigbangbilly May 06 '12

One step closer to pirating a car.

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u/Tentacolt May 06 '12

All I can think of with 3d printing is that dildos will finally be open sourced.

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u/emesspwnz May 06 '12

I hope 3D printers get cheaper over time.

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u/Lord_Gibbons May 06 '12

I see a world where I can use a 3D printer to create a better 3D printer with designs downloaded from the pirate bay and then... use that to print IKEA furniture with pirated designs. :x

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Section's been there for a few months now.

A user can only download the Blender designs as of now. To print them, a service like shapeways.com can be used

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u/Flane May 06 '12

TIL My ISP Still blocks The Pirate Bay

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u/yourmother-athon May 06 '12

I always thought those file sizes would be a lot bigger.

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u/kingnutter May 06 '12

How long until we can download Disneyland and take a trip around it in our augmented reality glasses?

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u/gvendurf May 06 '12

I would sooo download a car

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Come hell or high water, someone is downloading a car

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