{"id":24596,"date":"2016-04-12T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/darpa-project-to-seek-lightyear-like-leap-in-design-manufacturing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:32","slug":"darpa-project-to-seek-lightyear-like-leap-in-design-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/darpa-project-to-seek-lightyear-like-leap-in-design-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Project to Seek Lightyear-Like Leap in Design, Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-project-to-seek-lightyear-like-leap-in-design-manufacturing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 3D printers; many small mom-and-pop manufacturers are easy to set up anywhere. Which brings in some interesting challenges when thinking about regulatory compliance and safety. Imaging a neighbor who was laid off gets a 3D printer and begins building and shipping things from their home. Plus they\u2019re stock piling chemicals and other things in their basement or garage as \u201cbi-products\u201d in the production of the goods that they are building with their $15K 3D printer. Question for many is \u2014 how safe is it? how can this be monitored and controlled?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Manufacturers haven\u2019t been able to fully exploit advancements in new materials, because computer-aided design and engineering tools haven\u2019t kept pace, says a program manager for the government agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-project-to-seek-lightyear-like-leap-in-design-manufacturing.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vandenbrande: Humans have reached limits of their imagination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wardsauto.com\/technology\/darpa-project-seek-lightyear-leap-design-manufacturing\">http:\/\/wardsauto.com\/technology\/darpa-project-seek-lightyear...ufacturing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 3D printers; many small mom-and-pop manufacturers are easy to set up anywhere. Which brings in some interesting challenges when thinking about regulatory compliance and safety. Imaging a neighbor who was laid off gets a 3D printer and begins building and shipping things from their home. Plus they\u2019re stock piling chemicals and other things in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1523,38,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-computing","category-engineering","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67716,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions\/67716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}