| [GMCnet] 3 D Printing - Advanced Manufacturing [message #232857] |
Tue, 10 December 2013 19:05  |
glwgmc
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Airport scanners can be far more sophisticated than just metal detectors, and most these days are. A number of my former staff at the national lab were involved in the development of very high frequency holographic scanning and imaging for detecting nonmetalic flaws in things like the coverings on stealth airplanes after flying combat missions. A lot of that technology trickled down to todays airport scanners. An early test we did more than 15 years ago was to detect plastic Glock hand guns concealed on people. The images were so good you could read the serial number, count the number of shells in the magazine and determine whether one was chambered or not. It would not have made any difference if the shells were metal or not. There is a reason the more advanced scanning techniques require software blurring of parts of the human body to maintain some semblance of privacy whether there is metal present or not.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
Visitors always welcome!
glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com
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| Re: [GMCnet] 3 D Printing - Advanced Manufacturing [message #233570 is a reply to message #232857] |
Fri, 20 December 2013 18:53  |
RC Jordan
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The best part is that it has actually been DONE. I'm getting tired of
concepts.
If anyone has any stock in prosthetics companies, you have some time but
there is a disruption coming. While on the topic of disrution, someone
very familiar with the toy & board game business told me the companies are
sweating bullets over mass adoption of 3d printers ..makes sense.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Robert Mueller <robmueller@iinet.net.au>wrote:
> RC,
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> Now THAT's a wonderful use of this technology!
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> It was cute that the little girl noted: "I'm going to paint the nails
> pink."
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> Regards,
> Rob M.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: RC Jordan
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> Open source robotic hand. All you need is a printer.
> http://robohand.net/
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> a 4-year-old born without fingers
> http://imgur.com/WcTHBIA
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