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*http://reprap.org/
*http://reprap.org/
*http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/McWire_Cartesian_Bot_1_2 - easy to follow instructions for a kit version of reprap.
*http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/McWire_Cartesian_Bot_1_2 - easy to follow instructions for a kit version of reprap.
== Participants ==
== Participants ==
* [[User:Orph|Orph]]
* [[User:Orph|Orph]]
* [[User:Adi|adi]]
* [[User:Adi|adi]]
* [[User:Ioerror|Jacob]]
* [[User:Ioerror|Jacob]]
== Plan ==
* decide what system to build
* purchase parts
* build it!

Revision as of 01:38, 20 October 2008

From reprap.org:

Reprap image from reprap.org
RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €500).

The RepRap project is a bit optimistic in their description -- their "self-replicating" machine is capable of printing all of the non-commodity parts of their machine, but still needs stepper motors, steel rods, screws, nuts, control circuitry, and of course a human to assemble the pieces.

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Participants

Plan

  • decide what system to build
  • purchase parts
  • build it!