For fans of Bungie’s MMO shooter Destiny, it is now possible to bring the fusion rifle Conduit F3 to life with 3D printing from pixels.
It has been a trend for a while now to bring special weapons from fiction into our world. For example, in World of Warcraft, the sword of the Lich King, Frostmourne, has managed to take possession of a blacksmith and forced him to forge the sword. And replicas of Thor’s Hammer, Excalibur, or various Orc-slaying weapons from The Lord of the Rings are almost abundantly available.
Turn Pixels into Fusion Rifles!
In Destiny, it is now possible to make something tangible from pixels. London designer Elliot Vies has designed the legendary fusion rifle Conduit F3 as a 3D model. Anyone with a 3D printer can now print the beauty for themselves. Vies provides the schematics for free download. As a material to connect the parts of the model, he recommends epoxy resin.
Fusion rifles in Destiny are part of a new weapon technology that was developed by analyzing captured enemy weapons and mimicking their technology. After the weapon technicians managed to solve a few nasty problems with radiation leaking from the grips, they now serve reliably as alien pulverizers. In the universe of Destiny, you can never have enough firepower.
A small catch: Unfortunately, the thing does not fire fusion particles. A functional Conduit F3 is only available on the Xbox or PlayStation and costs 150 Crucible Tokens from the vendor Lakshmi-2, once you have reached Rank 3 with the Future War Cult.
3D printers are considered one of the emerging technologies of our time with the potential to change the face of our Earth. However, the technology is still in quite an early phase at the moment, and 3D printers are correspondingly expensive. A few weeks ago, Roccat introduced a mouse with printable parts, which allows customization of the mouse to meet the players’ requirements.
Some impressive pictures of the creation of the fusion rifle and a link with the schematics can be found here.
Update 0:00: Apparently, this is establishing a trend. Alongside the fusion rifle, a user on reddit has now posted photos of himself with the “printed” machine gun Thunderlord, one of the iconic weapons in Destiny. It looks even more impressive than the Circuit F3.
