3D printed glitter bomb created by NASA engineer

As online shopping is at an all time high, the tendency of people getting packages delivered to their front porch also come along. With this a new kind of criminal have also appeared, the package thieves or porch pirates if you will. Porch pirates simply disguise themselves as casual walker-bys. However instead of just passing by, they walk up to peoples’ front doors and grab recently-delivered packages before the actual resident can retrieve them.

A crime that are especially lucrative around the recently finished holidays, with peoples more expensive purchases of items such as electronics and toys etc. One person who fell victim to such a steel was the ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober. As small steels like these are not worth the time of Police, he took justice into his own hands with a sparkly version of justice in form of a 3D printed glitter bomb.

It is not the first time we have talked about 3D printing in connection with crafty solutions. Some of the more recent initiatives such as testing and getting around smartphones facial recognition is one example. Although the results from the 3D printed glitter bomb is quite a bit more entertaining.