Is 3D Printing Technology a Supervillain's Best Friend? Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Drone →

Last week engineers from the University of Southampton built a drone aircraft from parts printed on a 3D laser printing machine. They entered each part’s specifications and the machine printed out all the pieces by building up layers of plastic or metal until each part was complete. Then they took the parts and snapped them together in minutes like a simple airplane model and they had themselves an unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Add a battery and a piloting system and you’re ready to go. From nothing to airborne in a day.

Very cool. And it scared the hell out of me.