14 DAY TRIAL // Games, especially science fiction ones, have been a great source of ideas for scientific advancement, and games that combine Sci-Fi with historical and fantasy elements can sometimes be even more useful in that regard. What Farell Rozan did is an example of that.
You're probably familiar with the Assassin's Creed franchise, created and developed by Ubisoft. The game's hidden premise is that humanity was the result of an evolution forced upon primates living on Earth.
One thing led to another and a rebellion happened, leading to mutual extinction for humans and the so-called First Civilization, and subsequently much of the world's myths.
Spoilers aside, history eventually happened and the players of the game ended up reliving the memories of characters who, in turn, were just the memories of the real main characters of the titles.
If it sounds confusing, it was intended. It's not what we're going to be looking at today. Instead, we'll be checking out one of the most popular weapons of the player characters: the wrist blade.
Or, to be totally specific, we'll be checking out a 3D printed, real world version of the wrist blade used in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
The 3D printed wrist blade
A man by the name of Farell Rozan chose the assassin's blade as his first major 3D printing project. He wanted to use his recently bought Flashforge Creator Pro 3D printer for something cool.
He searched Thingiverse (a 3D model repository) and YouTube, but was ultimately dissatisfied with the size and thick handles, so he made his own version in the end.
He had to redesign the blade and mechanism four times, since he was still new to 3D printing and had some problems calibrating the printer too.
However, he eventually got the hang of modeling in three dimensions and turned out a very good-looking piece of work. Moreover, the blade is made of ABS thermoplastic (more resilient than the framework) and gave the whole thing a proper gap tolerance after a few tries.
The final product took 12 hours to print, though Rozan had to post-process everything for four more hours afterwards. The contraption is composed of 42 parts in total if you can believe it, although the wrist straps and rubber bands had to be acquired separately, since they can't be 3D printed like everything else.
What we may see from Rozan in the future
As illegal as it may become, Rozan might make a gun of some sort, since he considered it but decided against trying because it was too complicated for a beginner.
