Anyway, today I started thinking about what this means for the future of garage kits. As garage kits are sold at conventions and produced in limited quantities by individuals or groups, they are hard to come by.

Generally, the official sales price of garage kits is determined according to their production process. The following processes are the factors that lead to its high price:

1. The first thing to do before making a garage kit is to ask the prototype designer to design the prototype.

2, The next step is to make the mold.

3, After completing the steps above, you should color and paint it.

4, It may be colored unevenly or too much on a certain part and need to be fixed.

5. Many garage kits have limited production. A garage kit is generally pre-displayed in the form of GK grey mold at the WTF exhibition, and buyers will confirm the reservation according to this preview.

So as 3D printers become more mainstream, you may have the opportunity to use a program to create 3D images and make your garage kits. You can choose the best 3D printer filament to print model parts and assemble them all together with glue. This is likely to happen with 3D printers becoming cheap. You can check out our website to know how much is a 3D printer.

3D printer can print your favorite garage kits with high precision, without the expensive cost of hiring a prototype designer and making molds. Complex processes such as making eyes and nails can still be simplified when using the 3D printer. After polishing and coloring, a delicate toy is finished.

The 3D printing garage kit has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency, and guaranteed quality. For those who can’t afford expensive garage kits, getting a 3D printer is a great option, with which you can print your favorite animation role and participate in the whole process, which is also a very interesting experience.

When the iPhone X was launched in September 2017, Apple revealed its Face ID feature that depends on facial recognition to unlock the screen.This feature was the most exciting and interesting for Apple users,as finally they thought no one can ever hack their phone with a thumb or pattern .

At the time, Apple’s senior VP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, stated that “professional mask makers and makeup artists in Hollywood” had helped to “train the neural networks” of Face ID, making phone security more reliable than ever and almost impossible to hack.

Considering this “challenge accepted” Vietnamese tech security firm Bkav have applied 3D printing, silicone molding and handmade design to develop a mask that claims to successfully trick FaceID into unlocking any iPhone X.

Anti-spoofing measures of Face Id.

As outlined in Apple’s white paper, Face ID uses a TrueDepth camera system to accurately map the geometry of a face and recognise it. After detecting the direction of your gaze, the details are run through a neural network, allowing a phone to be unlocked with a glance.

In addition to features such as keeping track of changes in facial appearance, Apple also offers an anti-spoofing software to stop Face ID trickery. The anti-spoofing device works using a randomized sequence of 2D images and a depth map captured by the camera. This sequence is converted to raw mathematical data and then compared to the initial image of the user on file.

Unmasking Face ID’s weaknesses

Bkav researchers began testing Face ID as soon as the iPhone X was released to them last week. As part of Bkav’s proof of concept experiment, the team set up a new iPhone X with Face ID selecting a “no passcode” rule, allowing just the artificial face to be used when unlocking the phone.

Ngo Tuan Anh, Bkav’s VP for Cyber Security explained that the mask was “specially crafted by combining 3D printing with makeup and 2D images”, along with some “special processing on the cheeks and around the face, where there are large skin areas, to fool AI of Face ID.” All in all it cost $150 to make Bkav states that its researchers used a “popular 3D printer,” for the facial frame, with a nose “made by a handmade artist.”

Positioned under a sheet less than a metre away from the iPhone X, the mask successfully unlocked the phone as soon the material was removed. Though this may cause some concern for regular iPhone X user, Bkav points out that potential targets are more likely to be “billionaires, leaders of major corporations” and politicians.

 Making and testing the mask

The Bkav researchers say they needed “a half face to create the mask. It was even simpler than we ourselves had thought.” The team suggested that since since Apple released the iPhone X a year early, “they haven’t carried out scientific and serious estimation before deciding to replace Touch ID with Face ID.”

Bkav adds, “Take the nose of our mask for example, its creation is not complicated at all when we found that the nose did not perfectly meet our demand, we fixed it on our own, then the hack worked.”

“SO, IT’S EASY TO MAKE THE MASK AND BEAT FACE ID.”

Hackable AI and biometrics 

This is not the first time that 3D printing has been used to hack a phone’s biometric security system, or exploit weaknesses in AI recognition systems.

Professor Anil Jain, from Michigan state university, helped police unlock a murder victim’s fingerprint scanner-secured phone. Jain’s team used criminal record fingerprints to 3D print molds for artificial fingertips identical to the victim’s.

Earlier this month, Google’s AI object recognition system was tricked by researchers at MIT into misidentifying a specially 3D printed model of a turtle as a rifle.

3D printing technology has allowed Makers and designers to produce almost any type of figurine, toy, or doll in immaculate detail, but, until now, we have yet to see a 3D printer capable of printing something as fine and delicate as a strand of hair or the bristles of a brush. But prepare to break out your brushes because one team of researchers from the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University, led by PhD student Gierad Laput, have created a 3D printing process that manufactures delicate strands of plastic material. These 3D printed strands both feel and flow, according to the team, like an actual hair follicle, up to the point where it can be combed on the head of a doll or utilized as the bristles of a scrub brush.

The technique doesn’t require any modifications in the 3D printer’s hardware either; in fact, the process is quite simple, yet extremely innovative. Laput and his team discovered that by extruding tiny dots of PLA at varied temperatures and quickly pulling the printer head away, the plastic material can be stretched into a hair-like material before it is fully cooled. The team set the parameters for the 3D printer’s specialized function using gCode, ensuring that the each strand was replicated precisely. The final product is perfectly fit for the 3D printed head of any doll or mane of any 3D printed horse, and will surely help 3D printed objects become even more materialistically life-like and practical.

“Surprisingly, with enough strands, the extruded strings actually feel like real hair!” said Laput. “I mean they are synthetic, but the printed strands feel like actual strands of hair…and because they feel like actual strands of hair, we can perform post-processing manipulations like cutting, curling, or even braiding.”

The Carnegie Mellon team’s research is open to be used by any designer or artist, which should definitely help spread this newly developed method throughout the Maker community. Laput isn’t stopping at human hair follicles and brush bristles either; his future endeavors include improving the process even further in order to create intensely fine 3D printed fur and Velcro. He’d also like to implement human sensory experience and conductivity into the process, too, making this finely stringed plastic more interactive with our everyday lives. Although trying to 3D print at this level of detail was initially a hairy situation for Makers and designers, Laput and his team have solved the problem with this remarkably efficient and reliable printing process.