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RepRap

The 3D Printer that Prints Itself

Adrian BowyerUniversity of Bath, U.K.

eDay Rotterdam, 15 September 2011

What is RepRap?

RepRap is a self-replicating 3D printer

RepRap Facts

RepRap can copy about half its own parts.

The other half: hardware shops and on-line.

Cost of all the materials 400.

Working volume: 200 x 200 x 140 mm3.

Material: most plastics.

Print rate: 19 ml/hour (one day to replicate).

Licence: GPL.

RepRap Makes

http://thingiverse.com

RepRap Makes

http://thingiverse.com

4

Michael Curry

Anyone with a RepRap can make another RepRap for a friend

29 May 2008

It's like MP3 music sharing, but for real solid stuff...

...ultimately any stuff

RepRap: destroyer of industry

London 1943

Destroying Things

London 2011

That way never works

The Arrow of Time

Alwaysworks

The Arrow of Time

The Arrow of Time

Biology mutualist symbiosis

RepRap = flowersPeople = insectsGoods = nectar

The Four Levels

WEAK Rules

Economics

Biology

PhysicsSTRONG

The Future

Everyone in the developed world runs their own

CD pressing plant

The Future

Everyone in the developed world runs their own

CD pressing plant

Photographic Lab

The Future

Everyone in the developed world runs their own

CD pressing plant

Photographic Lab

And printing press

The Future

Why not their own factory...

The Future

...that makes more factories?

http//reprap.org