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T.REX TALK

Why We Open-Sourced All of our 3D Scan Data

T.REX TALK

T.REX ARMS

Technology

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We just released all the of 3D scans of all of the firearms and weapon lights that we have used to develop holsters for the last 5 years. We also released a bunch of new Sidecar files and a nylon pattern that you can sew at home. Now let's talk about why. 

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0:00.0

We've got a T-Rex announcement and we're not quite sure whether it's a big announcement or a small announcement.

0:07.0

To be honest, that is kind of up to you.

0:14.0

Welcome to another T-Rex talk. We are open sourcing a bunch of T-Rex stuff. Now, the reason that this is a fairly small announcement is that we've already done this before. We've already open-sourced the sidecar, a whole bunch of different design files for the sidecar spine system.

0:45.5

So drawings for all of the tooling that you would need to make sidecars and sidecar attachments that would be compatible with the T-Rex sidecars and the T-Rex sidecar attachments.

0:50.8

And not a whole lot of people have picked up on this. There's definitely a bunch of accessory makers that have made stuff.

0:57.7

Northwest Blade Works made a very cool adapter for attaching knife sheaths.

1:03.0

Our friend Garrett McLaren made a very cool adapter that essentially lets you carry a magazine in between your holster and your tourniquet carrier.

1:13.1

And I believe terminal armament, our friend Vlad, terminal armament, made some kind of radio carrier.

1:18.7

So there are definitely people experimenting with this, but there's a lot more stuff that you could do.

1:25.6

And we're releasing some more files. So in addition to some sidecar files for the

1:32.5

double-wheeled adapter, which we sold, I think that was our April Fool's Day joke earlier,

1:36.7

and a sidecar extender. That's kind of a new project. That's something we tinkered with for a while.

1:42.8

So if you have, let's say, a larger belt size,

1:46.4

if you have more diameter, maybe the sidecar would be more comfortable for you if you could

1:52.1

extend it a little bit. If you could put a spacer in between the holster and the mag attachment.

1:59.1

People that have a slightly larger circumference have said

2:02.5

that that is more comfortable. It gives you a little bit more space in between those two things.

2:06.7

It gives you a second hinge point. And so we released a bunch of 3D files related to that.

2:13.1

So you can print versions of those in different sizes. And our goal in releasing those files is to

2:21.6

just provide something that people can tinker with. But our hope is that it actually is an

2:28.6

encouragement to two groups of people. First of all, individual users to download the files, look at them,

2:36.5

think about how they would get them made. We also included some links to the 3D printers that we

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