One 3D printing aficionado created the one device even the most tech-obsessed robot designer would question, designing a DIY automated tattoo machine to ink actual human flesh. There have been ...

How one amazing YouTuber turned a 3D printer into an automated tattoo machine.

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a literal panic button to stop the machine mid-tattoo in case of trouble—a critical addition for something with needles involved! This hack sits on the edge of DIY body modification, raising ...

a literal panic button to stop the machine mid-tattoo in case of trouble—a critical addition for something with needles involved! This hack sits on the edge of DIY body modification, raising ...

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, known for the heroic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, weighed in on the ...

After 28 years in the business, Christofano received a patent late last year for a tattoo machine he designed. “Tattooing has been such a huge part of my life. I’ve been doing it nearly 30 ...

Which all came to pass. Arias became a devout churchgoer. He threw his tattoo machine into the garbage, and the pastor found him odd jobs. He reunited with his wife. And at age 30 he enrolled in ...

Ricardo Godoi reportedly hired a tattoo studio to ink his body in a hospital setting, where he ultimately died on the operating table Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.