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knewter on Sept 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tacocopter Basics

producing a barrel is not even hard with a well set up lathe, is it? I mean, certainly you can outperform muskets easily enough.

ansible on Sept 2, 2012 [–]

Yeah, I was just thinking of the scenario where you just download a file, print it, and you have a finished product, with some assembly.

With 3-D printers, this can currently be done with only very simple products. But the capabilities are expanding...

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