WebHome < Main < Reprap
Popularity Report
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
Rank
URL Tag Cloud
Bookmark History
Saved by 17 people (-2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-03-27
- Billgx on 2009-08-28 - Tags design , diy , manufacturing , 3d-printer , 3d , technology , prototyping
- Frdhtegreat on 2009-08-06 - Tags hardware , opensource , diy , technology , 3d , prototype , design
- Gms8994 on 2009-06-19 - Tags no_tag
- Lbukys on 2008-06-10 - Tags no_tag
- Palindrome on 2008-06-05 - Tags diy , manufacturing , design , 3d-printer , rapid_prototyping , reprap , toblog , technology
Public Sticky notes
RepRap makes its first complete working replicated copy! See the main and builders' blogs for more news.
Highlighted by lbukys
RepRap makes its first complete working replicated copy! See the main and builders' blogs for more news.
Highlighted by lbukys
What is RepRap?
RepRap version 1.0
Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.
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 component 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 €400). That way it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend...
The RepRap project became widely known after a large press coverage in March 2005, though the idea goes back to a paper on the web written by Adrian Bowyer on 2 February 2004.
We hope to announce self-replication in 2008, though the machine that will do it - RepRap Version 1.0 "Darwin" - can be built now - see the Make RepRap Darwin link there or on the left.
Highlighted by russandheather
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 component 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 €400). That way it's
accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as
individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap
machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have
a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend...
Highlighted by palindrome
Public Comment