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A proof of concept drone printed out on a 3d printer and made with off the shelf parts of $2500. This puts drones within the reach of many questionable groups. Since the drone if being printed, much of the design cost has been eliminated.
This has opened up a pandora's box. A terrorist group has 10,000 members scattered across USA. Over a 6 month period they each individual aquires a 3d printer and enough off the shelf parts to build 2 drones. The instructions on how to build the drones are sent to each individual over the internet.
Each member on a set date releases the two drones to attack targets of opportunity in his area. This is 20,000 drones that appear out of nowhere.
This is a pandora's box which can not be closed.
We have 3-D printed keys, guns and shoes—now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense.
In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a 1.5-pound payload. If it crashes or needs a design tweak for a new mission, another one can be printed out in a little more than a day, for just $2,500. It’s made with off-the-shelf parts and has an Android phone for a brain.
“We weren’t sure you could make anything lightweight and strong enough to fly,” says David Sheffler, who led the project. Sheffler is a former engineer for Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce who now teaches at the university. After he created a 3-D printed jet engine in one of his classes, the MITRE Corporation, a DoD contractor, asked him to create a 3-D printed UAV that could be easily modified and built with readily available parts.
www.wired.com/2014/09/military-grade-drone-can-printed-anywhere/
This has opened up a pandora's box. A terrorist group has 10,000 members scattered across USA. Over a 6 month period they each individual aquires a 3d printer and enough off the shelf parts to build 2 drones. The instructions on how to build the drones are sent to each individual over the internet.
Each member on a set date releases the two drones to attack targets of opportunity in his area. This is 20,000 drones that appear out of nowhere.
This is a pandora's box which can not be closed.
We have 3-D printed keys, guns and shoes—now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense.
In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a 1.5-pound payload. If it crashes or needs a design tweak for a new mission, another one can be printed out in a little more than a day, for just $2,500. It’s made with off-the-shelf parts and has an Android phone for a brain.
“We weren’t sure you could make anything lightweight and strong enough to fly,” says David Sheffler, who led the project. Sheffler is a former engineer for Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce who now teaches at the university. After he created a 3-D printed jet engine in one of his classes, the MITRE Corporation, a DoD contractor, asked him to create a 3-D printed UAV that could be easily modified and built with readily available parts.
www.wired.com/2014/09/military-grade-drone-can-printed-anywhere/