{"id":44951,"date":"2014-09-16T07:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=44951"},"modified":"2014-09-16T07:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:46:36","slug":"university-of-virginiamitre-3d-printed-uav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=44951","title":{"rendered":"University of Virginia\/MITRE: 3D Printed UAV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/09\/military-grade-drone-can-printed-anywhere\/\">Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>We have 3-D printed keys, guns and shoes\u2014now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a 1.5-pound payload. If it crashes or needs a design tweak for a new mission, another one can be printed out in a little more than a day, for just $2,500. It\u2019s made with off-the-shelf parts and has an Android phone for a brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t sure you could make anything lightweight and strong enough to fly,\u201d says David Sheffler, who led the project. Sheffler is a former engineer for Pratt &#038; Whitney and Rolls-Royce who now teaches at the university. After he created a 3-D printed jet engine in one of his classes, the MITRE Corporation, a DoD contractor, asked him to create a 3-D printed UAV that could be easily modified and built with readily available parts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Wired: We have 3-D printed keys, guns and shoes\u2014now a research team at the University of Virginia has created a 3D printed UAV drone for the Department of Defense. In the works for three years, the aircraft, no bigger than a remote-controlled plane, can carry a 1.5-pound payload. If it crashes or needs a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rise-of-the-machines","category-surveillance","category-technology","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44952,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44951\/revisions\/44952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}