{"id":27894,"date":"2016-07-15T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T03:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/3d-printed-gatling-gun-fires-48-rubber-bands-in-mere-seconds"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:06:21","slug":"3d-printed-gatling-gun-fires-48-rubber-bands-in-mere-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/3d-printed-gatling-gun-fires-48-rubber-bands-in-mere-seconds","title":{"rendered":"3D-Printed Gatling Gun Fires 48 Rubber Bands in Mere Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-gatling-gun-fires-48-rubber-bands-in-mere-seconds.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/The-Arcus-Fully-3D-Printed-Rubber-Band-Gatling-Gun\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Davis\u2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8PtwqRvVDU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arcus<\/a> is officially the most impressive thing we\u2019ve ever seen come out of a 3D printer. Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/these-3d-printed-robotic-legs-could-serve-as-cheaper-pr-1579541369\">cheap prosthetics<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/cancer-survivor-receives-jaw-thanks-to-new-3d-printing-1783009432#_ga=1.1461623.792806379.1468583752\">replacement body parts<\/a> are important uses of the technology, but this spinning rubber band blaster is what finally makes us want to put a 3D printer on our desks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8PtwqRvVDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unlike most rubber band blasters that only fire a single shot every time you squeeze the trigger or require a drive mechanism to make them fully automatic, Davis\u2019 Arcus uses the energy from the loaded elastics to spin the barrel and automatically fire shot after shot until it\u2019s empty. Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/3d-printed-gatling-gun-fires-48-rubber-bands-in-mere-se-1783727751\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/3d-printed-gatling-gun-fires-48-rubber-ba...1783727751<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Davis\u2019 Arcus is officially the most impressive thing we\u2019ve ever seen come out of a 3D printer. Sure, cheap prosthetics and replacement body parts are important uses of the technology, but this spinning rubber band blaster is what finally makes us want to put a 3D printer on our desks. Unlike most rubber band [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894","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=27894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61168,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894\/revisions\/61168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}