eday2011 - adrian bowyer - university of bath
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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
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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