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Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads
lukehopewell1 writes "The Pirate Bay is offering users the chance to download and print out real objects using 3D printers in what the pirate site is hailing as 'the future.'" Amir Taaki mentions that among the new "physibles" uploaded to the Pirate Bay are "plans for a tabletop replica for a Warhammer 40k dreadnought that got taken down in December with a DMCA request." Downloadable 3D models have been around for a while; MakerBot users are probably all familiar with the Thingiverse. Couple TPB with a cheap method of accurate 3D scanning, though, and I wonder what illegal shapes will emerge.
I want to download a car!
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Those "You wouldn't download a car, would you?" warnings on the beginning of DVD's are going to be funny when people actually are downloading cars...
For the record, I totally would.
How about a statue of a man resembling Steve Jobs?
What's the first thing with any new tech? Porn! So, 3D printers will be used to make sex toys.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
In some states, certain shapes may only be downloaded as an "adult novelty item".
Those aren't illegal... Did I miss something?
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Cue the people breaking walking down the streets with a notepad copying down VINs for sale on the black market...
I wanna download an A-bomb!
It's dildos all the way down.
Is it just me, or do you hate it when people say "Is it just me..."?
Solution: Just make them up!
I look forward to being able to download a 3D model of an LP, that I can play on my turntable. Take that, RIAA!
This calls to mind Corey Doctorow's short story "Printcrime".
Download what is supposed to be a car, end up with a literal bag of dicks...this is gonna bring trolling to a whole new level!
Thingiverse has already suffered several takedowns of allegedlycopyrighted materials.
Also, they recently overhauled their site, and somhow made it EVEN WORSE, when it was already pretty intolerable.
That's the one thing I'm not sure of. I'm all for downloading one, but where can I get a VIN to make it street legal?
This is the least of your concerns -- people do build their own cars in garages and there are procedures in place to register those cars. The real problem with downloading a car is that Detroit will join Hollywood in attacking new technologies rather than updating their business model.
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That's the one thing I'm not sure of. I'm all for downloading one, but where can I get a VIN to make it street legal?
In most states you'll not be surprised to learn there is a form and a nominal fee to have the state assign you one.
Happens ALL the time for homemade custom boat trailers and to a much lesser extent homemade motorcycles and cars.
Its not usually much of an issue. "Red states" stereotypically seem to have a half page form and want like $5, "Blue states" stereotypically seem to have a 30 page form and want $100, but its always possible...
The biggest "problem" you'll encounter is most states have a certain location, size, and technique required to permanently deface the vehicle with the new VIN. Usually engraving a part of the frame meets the legal obligation, but how you engrave the frame ranges from "hold my beer and watch what I do with a dremel" all the way up to strange photoetching techniques.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
This will probably help to prevent it from being used for cars for a while (heavy lobbying to think of the children's safety I would suspect).
Anything with a radio will go the same way (FCC). I expect there to be a field day of regulatory capture in general if complex 3D printing becomes possible.
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Forget that. I want to download Summer Glau.
- Lock picks
- That crowbar-like tool for breaking into cars
- bombs
- guns
- drug pipes
- micky mouse ears
etc
Rick Astley?
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The mere idea that there is such a thing as an illegal shape is offensive.
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When can I download Jenna Haze?
So you point your 3-d printer's camera at the QR code on the Jenna centerfold, little do you know I stuck a sticker over the real code, and your 3-d printer squirts out (ewww) Mr Goatse...
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
You know you could download life size porn dolls or something. Maybe send a picture out of someone and it would send you a physible to make a look alike!!
Or 3D portraits of Chris Dodd with the AACS encryption key below...
Wow, I can finally own stuff not made in China!
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Actually, in some US states, they are illegal to sell or to posess in quantity. Texas and Alabama at least, and I believe quite a few more, have made the sale of sex toys a criminal offence. I'm not going to google the details from work, look it up yourself. That's one reason you'll often see them sold as 'novelty' items: The manufacuters maintain some facade of them not really being what they are, knowing that most of the time the police have more important laws to enforce. Every now and again some local politician orders a crackdown to win the Family Values voters over.
I was discussing this with my brother about a year back. We were in the store looking at this warhammer stuff, and I remarked that these dye-cast figures aren't any more complicated (probably less so) than hotwheels. Yet peopel are paying $5 a piece for them, or getting special sets of "rare" pieces for over $50. I was saying that eventually people would just be printing their own models on 3D printers. I guess the future is here. And good for it. I always thought some of these games were a little odd. Things like Magic Cards. Who-ever spends the most on their deck has a huge advantage over everyone else. Sure there's skill involved at some level, in knowing which cards to put in the deck in the first place, but a lot of it is spending money obtaining that deck. I would be like playing chess, where one player had all queens because he had spent a bunch of money.
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Why doesn't someone offer a legal online movie rental service that's ultra cheap ... way cheaper than iTunes or even netflix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
"The first-sale doctrine is a limitation on copyright that was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1908 (see Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus) and subsequently codified in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. 109. The doctrine allows the purchaser to transfer (i.e., sell, lend or give away) a particular lawfully made copy of the copyrighted work without permission once it has been obtained. This means that the copyright holder's rights to control the change of ownership of a particular copy ends once ownership of that copy has passed to someone else, as long as the copy itself is not an infringing copy. This doctrine is also referred to as the "right of first sale," "first sale rule," or "exhaustion rule.""
This should means that a store can buy a movie and rent it out online for as little as 25 cents .. as long as it does not retain a copy. How is that feasible as a business model? Simple .. do it the similar to how DVD rental kiosks work. Temporarily authorize the credit card for the full price of the movie --say ..19.95 .. then when the rental period is over .. "buy back" the full movie for $19.70 .. This would make it possible to legally rent out movies for dirt cheap. In theory movie companies shouldn't get overly pissed off at the concept either because they can always either increase the price of the first sale and they can expect more movie watching and growth for the industry.
That is the hard way.
The easy way. go to a junkyard and buy the registration and Vin plate from a car to be crushed or the frame/body of one.. Yes you can do this.
Attach the vin plate to your car, register the car with the old title you had signed over to you.
It's listed as a "salvage title" but who cares. It's how I got my sand rail on the road legally without all the stupid safety engineering testing that Michigan has for experimental vehicle registration. IT was registered as a VW bug.
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I don't own a 3D printer, so I think the first item i'd download is one of them!
When all else fails, you've won.
When this technology matures to include ceramics and sintered metals that can be fired to produce an object OTHER than red plastic, I can imagine a lot more sinister uses .. guns for example.
"Blue states" stereotypically seem to have a 30 page form and want $100, but its always possible...
Yeah but 20 pages of that are questions like "How does this car effect the aura of the driver?" and "Is there any possibility that this car could create a hostile work environment for a LGBT or minority?"
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Much like the laws against tattooing in some states, they aren't enforced.
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As an adult, I realize how difficult it would be to invent a replicator due to the IP law involved.
You think SOPA/PIPA are bad, just wait until the likes of Nike, McDonalds, and deBeers get involved...
First off, what is your credit card processing fee? There is a reason Apple isn't laughing all of the way to the bank with iTunes but the credit companies ARE laughing their ass off. It all depends on your size and your risks (chargebacks) but gosh darn, you might be suprised that your 25 cent fee ends up mostly at the credit card company. That is nobody does a charge back and you have to pay anywhere up from ten bucks for it. With your 25 cents, 1 chargeback costs you 40 paying customers, well it would IF you could use all their quarters to pay for the 1 chargeback, which you can't because other things will have to payed from it as I already stated.
Further more, you say the movie costs 20 bucks, even if rentals worked like that, which they don't, you need 80 paying customers (IF you could keep the entire quarter) just to break even. Meanwhile, your entire legal case rests on the fact that there is only ONE copy around for each possesion, so if 80 customers want the same movie at the same time, you need 80 x 20 bucks to satisfy demand. Now you need a total of 640 paying customers... IF you could keep the entire quarter which once again, you cannot.
I keep hammering on this because a lot of noobs to business think that money is free. You sell something and everything the customer pays, ends up in your pocket. Transaction costs HURT many a small business and is the reason you can't buy a nickle item with a credit card.
The most annoying thing is that this doesn't have to be the case, in the EU payments systems are far far cheaper per transaction, on the order of cents rather then quarters and are even free. Whenever I have to implement a CC solution because people in the EU thinks it will mean the world I find it very amusing to show them the fee structures. It is like telling a baby how their candy will be taken.
Oh, and those transaction costs, you have them DOUBLE. Two transactions... all to be payed out of 1 quarter dollar along with all your other costs.
You should put this in a business case and present it at your bank. They need a good laugh.
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It will be a good source for ATM faceplates that skimmers can hide their gear under...
You cannot build a functional combustion engine out of any substance malleable enough to be usable by a cheap consumer-grade 3d printer.
Cars require metal parts, and metal parts require more powerful equipment to forge.
I'm excited to be that much closer to Star Trek-type replicators, even if we're still just a half-step into a long journey. Synthehol and hot Earl Grey tea, here I come!
could cause damage.
Oh, I'm sure that's going to be harped on whether it's true or not. Far too much money in the parts market to allow Joe Blow to download his own replacement parts, even if they're are purely cosmetic, like screw covers...
Copyright and trademark infringement are common and this sort of thing has been a source of controversy for a while now.
But the next big blowup will be over things that are illegal in themselves just by their shape and arrangement of parts. I'm talking about things like weapons, drug paraphernalia, and pathogens. It's likely we'll see a crackdown or at least a panic resulting in calls for licensure of many of the most useful creation tools ever designed.
Take the humble AK-47 rifle, for example. It's designed for ease of manufacture, making it a likely target for replication. This makes enforcing highly restrictive gun laws very difficult in a world full of machines that can build them from simple raw materials.
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They're selectively enforced. Believe me, if they need a reason to bust your ass and can't come up with anything else, they'll be perfectly happy to break out that shit if they need to.
Do any of these low-cost 3D printers improve substantially on the 1.3mm resolution and 25/kg material costs that I've seen? If not the toy industry has nothing to worry about (yet).
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Okay, we all like to play with our memes, (it's practically at that multi choice form), but isn't anyone seeing who else is really threatened?
Try the Toy industry! In one sense, toys are "sorta stupid", just big hunks of plastic with the computing power of a watch.
Bye bye $60 for some Sit and Spin thingie!
Oh dear skies alive, having the TOY lawyers playing with the media lawyers? *Cringe*
Plus this thing is gonna play hell with Patent vs. Copyright.
"Oh, the patent expired? Let's copyright the Replicator Formula for 100 years!"
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The output of the 3d printers will be made of a completely different substance than the specialized car parts. The different substance will likely have different heat and pressure tolerances, different tensile strength, and so on. It probably won't work, and could cause damage.
Maybe, but they would make a great pattern to build a mold so that the part could be reproduced with the proper materials.
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DNA synthesizers are. Guess TPB is going to have seeds for Ebola sequence in ten years and soon be labeled a terrorist site after that.
I mean, why not start with, say, a basic template for that sort of figure, and add in your own detail with a 3d modelling program, and create an original figure that you can then "print" out and utilize? I mean, what on earth makes having a duplicate of that particular figure so worthwhile that one should be inclined to even *want* to copy it?
I know if I had that sort of tech at home, I'd be making all kinds of customization to figures, rather than wanting to duplicate something that somebody else has done. And while granted, not everybody has the time or the inclination to want to do that sort of thing, I still find myself at a loss to understand why a person would rather copy something commercial than something somebody else might have made for free. Especially considering that home 3d printers generally can't actually do the kinds of fine detail that typically goes into metal figures of that size.
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You didn't get it.
The question is: What is TPB doing that's different from what they did yesterday? Hint: Nothing.
What if they didn't "decide" to host 3D-printer files and I went there and uploaded one anyway? Hint: They would host it anyway.
This is just sensationalism to wow the low-IQ masses, this is NOT news. "Nerds" should know better.
Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.
I know
A- Ceramic engines exist, and have lots of advantages over steel engines in the high end department
B- Consumer grade printers can produce things out of ceramic
real question is, what resolution is required....
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So... what material will we be printing on, into which you can pour molten steel or iron?
About five years ago I was forced to abandon development of a project I started called 'Vassal 40k', under threat of legal action by Games Workshop. After I received the takedown request I deleted all files I had that pertained to the project, removed all links to it from sites I was hosting, and terminated the bit torrent seeds on my fileserver.
A few minutes ago I found a torrent for Vassal 40k on Pirate Bay.
Since I include complete source in all my distributions, it was easy for different people over the years to take over the project and add new stuff. Every few months while browsing the web I will find a video on youtube of people playing, or read a blog where someone has used it to write a battle report. Several times over the years I almost downloaded it. Then I imagine that having those files on my computer might be enough justification for armed men to kick down my door and take everything I own at gunpoint.
The incident has left me with little desire to play Warhammer 40k, but I do not support the actions of Pirate Bay. As a developer I believe that the rights of copyright holders should be respected. I publish my personal projects under Open Source licenses and would be pretty mad if I found out someone was in violation. I honestly think that Vassal 40k, the project I spent months of my time coding, testing, and creating art for, should be taken down off Pirate Bay and people should never use it again.
If Games Workshop does not want us spending our time developing games for their IP as fans, we shouldn't. Instead spend our time creating our own original open source game content as competitors.
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Is there a good place to start for someone just wanting to get into 3d printing? What is the cost of printer and material?
If I were you, I'd start with Google. Or Bing if you're one of those kinds of people.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I don't know, if you're implying you can download things from others' brains, then it would be cool if you could download mad guitar skills, or better yet, how to be an awesome programmer/engineer.
I live in Alabama and the way they get around this law is to market them as health care items. I don't know why they don't just do away with ineffective laws. Not to mentions stupid ones.
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I see your point, but they have added it as a new category so it should be slightly easier to find stuff.
It's not really hard to do. Just keep all records of where the parts came from so they can make sure that they are not stolen. Pay your fee and they will issue you a number to stamp on the frame. Check with your local DMV because laws vary from state to state.
but they would make a great pattern to build a mold so that the part could be reproduced with the proper materials.
what material will we be printing on, into which you can pour molten steel or iron?
You're doing it wrong.
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There's no copyright issue for functional parts under US law. That's why there's a third-party auto parts industry.
I wish 3D printing was more useful. It's currently at "fast, good, cheap - pick one". The consumer-grade machines make little things from ABS, with visible row lines, slowly. The really good machines make working parts from titanium, cost millions, and take forever. The midrange machines cost about $50K and make OK plastic parts, slowly, with a high consumables cost.
Milling machines can do many of the same jobs. The main advantage of 3D printing is that the work-holding problem isn't so bad. Most of the headaches in machining come from having to hold the part on surfaces that aren't being machined in the currrent operation, then having to re-clamp the part and precisely align it.
http://www.makerbot.com/
Under $2000 to get going.
If it's something attached to the engine or hydraulic system components I'd agree, but I think it will be fine for pretty much any interior or body part.
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I'm sorry but the Pirate Bay is no longer a 'Pirate Site.' They handed in their cutlasses a long time ago.
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That is the hard way.
The easy way. go to a junkyard and buy the registration and Vin plate from a car to be crushed or the frame/body of one.. Yes you can do this.
Attach the vin plate to your car, register the car with the old title you had signed over to you.
It's listed as a "salvage title" but who cares. It's how I got my sand rail on the road legally without all the stupid safety engineering testing that Michigan has for experimental vehicle registration. IT was registered as a VW bug.
Who cares? Your insurance company cares. They won't insure a vehicle with a salvage title.
Thought there was supposed to be seven items?
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"Couple TPB with a cheap method of accurate 3D scanning, though, and I wonder what illegal shapes will emerge."
Lots and lots of phalluses.
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Dude, it's the insurance. You are required by law to have liability insurance on your automobile. The biggest problem with making your own car is the ludicrous cost of ownership due to insurance.
You know how car companies do a bunch of crash tests to prove how safe and reliable their cars are? Guess what the insurance company will charge you when you tell them "trust me, it's safe". That's right, an arm and a leg. Not your arm and leg of course, but someone else's which they'll have to pay for when your car fucks up and you dismember people.
Oh, is that unlikely and not going to happen?
Prove it to the insurance company. Make 5 and crash them. Take some videos and let some engineers dicker over them for a few hours at $200 hours a pop.
"Oh dear skies alive, having the TOY lawyers playing with the media lawyers? *Cringe*"
You meant the adult toy lawyers, right?
Imagine the Lego Projects you could do with this!
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Odd, I have had several insured. you must be completely wrong.
Because you can easily register and insure a salvage title. Buddy did it to his Prius. insurance company was happy to insure it.
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You wouldn't print your mould directly, you'd print a model, then pack moulding sand round the model to form a mould. Then remove the model and pour in the metal.
Depending on the complexity of the part you could either go for a reusable model or a model that you melt out of the mould before using it. (like with lost wax casting)
Though if it's a mechanical part you would probablly need to do some machining after casting to get tight enough tolerances on the important surfaces.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
"I wonder what illegal shapes will emerge."
The idea of an illegal shape is funny to me, but when we're all printing Shub-Niggurath figurines I'm sure I won't be laughing.
Assuming you had the skill to do that[1], the cost of the specialized equipment to melt iron doesn't come cheap.
Then you need to temper it right. That's assuming the part is designed to be cast rather than forged or some other process anyway.
I'm sick of hearing about 3D printing.
[1] I've done it at school. It's not easy. The results were pretty shite. But that's more than most of the twats who hype it all up have ever done.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I cannot find the story right now. But someone already did. Save 250 bucks on a car repair, some clip in his trunk had broken and he could fix it with a special printed part. The dealer could only replace a whole part of the trunk.
No you don't. You may have paid premiums and have a piece of paper but if you described it as a VW bug and it's actually a homebrew PzKfw IV/hovercraft hybrid they're going to tell you to pound sand when you make a claim.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Odd, I have had several insured. you must be completely wrong.
Because you can easily register and insure a salvage title. Buddy did it to his Prius. insurance company was happy to insure it.
I dare you to try to file a vehicle claim on a salvage title, let alone a vehicle claim on a salvage title with a "repurposed" VIN.
MOdders please
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Actually with laser sintering you can print the metal directly.
For the same reason that quite a few states still make it a criminal offense to have homosexual sex, even though everyone knows that'd be struck down in ten seconds if anyone tried to enforce it today. No state senator wants to go down in history as the one who legalised buggery, and none wants to go down in history as the one who legalised obscene toys either. It'd also be a way to instantly lose the social-conservative vote, and in some states the social conservative vote really is everything at the state level.
If you are replacing broken plastic parts as na1led suggested, why would they be a different substance? In any case, the parts I immediately thought of were the stupid little plastic brackets that hold my dash panels on. They aren't some hi-tech super material; they're cheapest plastic the manufacturer could get. That's why they broke. I could print replacements out of several stronger materials for a fraction of what the dealer would charge me. (If I didn't like the sweet baling-wire look I've got going.)
I've done blacksmithing. What you need to melt iron is a crucible, coal, firebricks, and a hair dryer. You can get fancier, that that will work. Hair dryer forces air into the coal bed to get it hot enough to melt the iron. Firebricks keep everything else from catching fire. The whole furnace can be built in a hole in the ground with a metal pipe leading to the bottom to feed air in.
"specialized equipment" didn't exist thousands of years ago (iron age, bronze age) when people started casting metals. It can all be done with pretty primitive stuff by modern standards.
I was discussing 3D printing with the parts guy at the Honda dealership this morning. Like most people he had no clue that this tech even exists and what kind of impact it's going to be over the next 10 years. I told him it's only a matter of time before companies see downloadable 3D models as a threat and start trying to protect their designs. I also told him it won't be long before companies start screaming to have the patent laws extended like they are doing with copyright law.
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One would hope you aren't going to fabricate something with your 3D printer then just stick it in there.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
I'd love it if there was some standard 3D model available for each type of unit. Then I could completely customize them to match my preferences.
Swapping weapons/heads/limbs on the physical plastic or metal figurines is no problem, but unless you're extremely handy with epoxy putty, stuff like changing facial expressions or various surface details is damn hard. Working in a 3D modelling program would make that so much easier and infinitely undo/redoable.
But knowing GW, look forward to being excluded from all tournaments and banned for life if your figurines don't have the correct GW-approved RFID tag.
Eat the rich.
You print in plastic, then make a mold. Then you pour your metal into the mold. You know, like they have done for many years.
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I got my sand rail on the road legally without all the stupid safety engineering testing that Michigan has
All that stupid testing isn't for your fucking benefit, you selfish twat. It's for everyone else's. If you want to be a cheapskate and kill yourself, do it on your own land. Fucker.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
One day, thanks to the research by those few teams we have heard about on here recently, we'll even be able to print our food.
Yes, we'll be able to have processed vaguely chicken flavoured tofu or krill in little chicken shapes! Amazing
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Depends in they are designed from scratch, based upon a fair use view, are generally generic in design and cost far more to 3D print than to manufacture under normal circumstance and neither the 3D design nor the printed product are sold.
So in reality not much different from manufacturing your own, for your own use, which is not illegal.
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Under $2000 to get going.
$2000 is a lot of money to make plastic toys as a hobby.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Am I the only person here who didn't know what the fuck that meant, looked it up and found it was about playing with plastic toys? I feel like I've stumbled into a Toys R Us forum.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
True, but if I had more time I might try to find a makerspace locally to play with one. You can do some cool stuff like printing forms which can then be cast etc. Alas, I'm already too busy.
As the other responder to your comment noted, things were pretty primitive back in the iron age. Skill is a matter of practice; I took a blacksmithing class back in 1976 or 7 and it really wasn't that hard (the hardest is thin steel, too easy to set the steel on fire when it's thin). Neither is tempering the steel. We also did casting in another class, and casting is even easier than smithing. For casting you need a kiln rather than a forge, but they work on similar principles and there are a lot of ways to do it. And again, tempering is a matter of how much temper you need, whether to use oil or water, and some other simple things.
You don't need a PhD in metalurgy to cast metals or forge them.
Also, for a car you would need lots of steel, especially for the frame and engine, but anything but a car is pretty much made of 100% plastics these days. Downloading a car would be a nice exercise, but would not be worth the effort otherwise. However, for something like a replacement dash or other part to repair your car, this would be great.
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It's not beyond the realm of possibility to have a "kitchen machine", which has a refrigerator and storage racks at one end, mixing bowls etc in the middle, and a stove/oven heater at the end, and runs on recipes which are data files. Existing kitchens have all the same parts except a human does all the mechanical steps. We already have a primitive version in "bread machines" that do most of the steps in making fresh bread for you.
Actually, it's getting the DMV to register the vehicle. If it doesn't have a VIN you're not going to get plates for it, and then you can't legally drive it on the public roads. You can do as someone claims they do in an above post and obtain a VIN from a scrapped car. In the state I live in neither the DMV or my insurance company has ever verified that the VIN I gave them actually matches the car it is attached to, so this would get you your plates and on the road. However, I'm sure that this is at best a legal grey area, and quite possibly breaking some law. Your insurance company may also consider it fraud. If I was to play that game, I would try and get a VIN from a car old enough to grandfathered into most of the modern safety and emissions laws so they at least couldn't nail you with that.
I don't, in fact, possess any of those. And I'll wager that the vast majority of households have only one of them - can you work out which? Guess who does have the specialized equipment? Specialists, that's who. Even in the iron age only a very few would have had the equipment (and ability to use it). It wouldn't be economic for everyone to have it.
That's garbage. You think they smelted ores in their cooking pots? Hunted mammoths and caught fish with identical spears?
The root of your problem is that you obviously don't know the meaning of the word "specialized". It doesn't mean "modern" or "high tech" like you think. It means "useful for, or dedicated to, a specific task".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."