[ale] Hey Shapiro! New use for that 3D printer!

[Jeff Hubbs]

A commenter mentioned "high security locksets like Medeco" - many years 
ago I had a Medeco key and its value-add was that the notches were cut 
at an angle.  A 3D printer could reproduce that with no additional 
difficulty as long as you had a way to transcribe the original key 
sufficiently.

As for the carved material being too weak, well, take your printed piece 
to Lowe's and have them reproduce a metal copy for you...

On 6/6/11 2:02 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 13:52, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/02/3d-model-for-reprodu.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
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>> Next step is to create the ability to devise a printed key from a digital
>> image of the existing key.
>
> Already done - Slashdot had a piece about a project that could make
> keys from a photo of them
>
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