Dude, did you see that new Justice video where they turn a 3D printer into a computerized tattoo gun? Oh, that wasn’t Justice? Anyway, did you see it? Those French guys totally turned a MakerBot Replicator 2 into a tattoo gun!
The idea started as part of a workshop titled Public Domain Remix, hosted by the French Ministry of Culture at ENSCI les Ateliers, a famous Parisian design school. The participants of the event were instructed to remix images, sounds, and video found in the public domain. One group, calling themselves Appropriate Audiences, decided to hack a 3D printer to draw tattoos of public domain images. With some help from Le FabShop, a French hackerspace assisting with the event, the team took a desktop 3D printer found at the school, replaced the extruder with a pen, and created their prototype within the workshop’s allotted 8 hour time frame. The machine was able to draw their images in front of all of the workshop participants, as well as the Minister of Culture herself.…
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