RepRap

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

FUCK GUNDAM AGE!!!

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[countrybluegrass]

You still have to buy pre-made plastic for it to make things out of. You still have to pay a factory to synthesize the plastic out oil and have it shipped to you. The only thing this is good for is liberating the working classes from their jobs.

[Yukikazehalo]

@countrybluegrass

you're not thinking about the big picture, micro-manufacturing and replicating technology is one of the first steps towards a post-scarcity world where money is no longer needed.

[amfest]

@countrybluegrass

or . .gasp

people create their own product and manufacture it themselves! I highly doubt that majority of the general public will want an ugly looking manufacturing machine in their homes next to their family pc.

[willedsmithmo]

6:47 Excellent soundbyte!

[coolman9999uk]

3rd Gen: 100% of parts self produced.

6th Gen: Fully functioning assembler module. Can assemble itself.

8th Gen: Multiple materials. Can assemble simple robots.

9th Gen: Internet software framework for common control of printers and robots.

10th Gen: Integration of AI source code of all machines.

12th Gen: AI source code able to permute itself and tests itself for fitness in simulation/real world tests. i.e. ability to become better. Goal = make human lives easier.

15th Gen: End of human race.

[adrianbowyer]

@coolman9999uk Hmmm. Daffodils and sheep are far better evolving self-replicating machines than RepRap. We don't seem to have had a lot of trouble with them... Dealing with self-replicating machines is our oldest and best-understood technology - we call it farming.

[jcwhite1288]

trust me i hav red alot of book. all this takes is for one string of code to go berzrk an yiou have a bot that prints its own guns, bullets and fingers to fire the gun. this technologies scare me for sure. Reprap shud NOT play God

[coolman9999uk]

@jcwhite1288 obvious troll

[jcwhite1288]

@coolman9999uk is obvious

[ThatBlakAshyGuy]

whats going to stop people from making weapons and shit?

[fromstart2finish]

@ThatBlakAshyGuy

nothing. They were making weapons just fine without 3d printers. The will just make them faster. Quit overreacting.

[Fiercefighter2]

Imagine a sister machine to this one, that takes landfill material, melts and sorts it into all sorts of materials for the reprap to use. Like plastics, tin, other metals, etc. We could make it printable on a large reprap machine. Maybe economically cheap enough for each neighbourhood to have one.

[neonfox3]

Thumbs up if Zeitgeist Moving Forward and it's powerful message brought you here!

[KarriKoivusalo]

@neonfox3 Zeitgeist? Do they seriously think this hobby FDM machine is going to start some sort of an industrial revolution? Reality check, this tech has been obsolete for over a decade now as faster, more precise and less post operation intensive technologies have made leaps in development. Also, where any FDM machine would spend hours on a single rough piece, an industrial injection molding machine would use minutes to make several at a time, with superior finish and shape fidelity.

[henrikmk]

@KarriKoivusalo The "hobby" aspect of this machine is the price. Commercial printers are closed, expensive systems that don't replicate themselves and their only advantage is print quality. The Reprap is an open design that anyone can build. Increasing the speed and quality over time becomes a part of the design process being open, and allows it to spread faster than commercial printers. Any poor farmer, can print things without needing money instead of buying expensive things to survive.

[henrikmk]

@KarriKoivusalo In fact, this is a core aspect of Zeitgeist: This poor farmer will be able to give things away to his neighbor, including parts for another printer. Therefore, the limitation to his prosperity will be the resources available to him and not how much money he has.

Now, take the open Reprap design principle and move it to metal, electronics and concrete printers. A family of open printers that can 100% make parts for each other. This covers most living needs without any money.

[KarriKoivusalo]

@henrikmk

Ah yes, the usual "Reprap can replicate itself" bull. And zeitgeist, from what I've seen from the people promoting it, very much including yourself, is a total detachment of reality. There's no way this machine could print even most of the parts it uses, and an RP machine making *electronics* out of some bin of raw material is Star Trek, not immediate development prospect. I don't see much use for this machine to a struggling farmer either. Wake up.

[henrikmk]

@KarriKoivusalo Are you keeping up with Reprap development? It's moving fast. Don't expect the Reprap to look like this in 10 years. Most "vitamin" parts, won't be printable for a long time, but it does not prevent people from reducing the number of vitamin parts needed. Electronics printing is possible today industrially and I wouldn't be surprised, if it is possible to print a small 8-bit computer within a decade. Don't think in terms of what's possible now. Think many years ahead.

[KarriKoivusalo]

@henrikmk

Do you realize you are talking about two decades old tech here? There are RP machines that can conceivably produce circuit boards (although manufacturing them from blanks yields better results quicker and cheaper) but semi-conductor electronics? Forget about it.

It's a hobby tool, great for hobbyists and a boon for small DIY construction, but it will never, ever be the great do-all zeitgeist horn of plenty. The whole Zeitgeist circle jerk is based on delusion.

[stsgabe]

Try printing an egg shell

[hck112]

Omg, I can make a real Mandelbrot with this printer! Yay!

[kidbookid18]

Wow! Weapon of mass creation. . . Brilliant!

[Prabeshization]

awesome concept...



[AwakenFromTheSlumber]

Depth of Vision, with massive and imediate action think where this technology could lead 50-100 years from now, this combined with Contour Crafting could practically make all curreny productiona and consctrution methods obsolete.

[SkengRudebwoy]

@AwakenFromTheSlumber thats if nanotec aint taken off!!!

[feckteck]

omg! i love life! thankyou! this is like a dream!

[Incrue]

now, open source plastic, please

[kousoulides]

I am gonna print me a ferrary

[BaronNathanel]

everyone needs to put their money into the company that makes the plastic filament it needs to build with, LOL.

[FateMaster2]

What I realy miss in general is a video showing step by step how to upload the firmwares, drivers, software and whatnot in order and WHERE to get each pice of software. Since there are a lot vids that show how to do the hardware part and doing HW-bugfixes I don't get why there is nothing like it for the software part.

Searching thru the reprap wiki is a pain.. while I was able to get some (I guess all) of the infos and links it is a huge road block sitting just at the start.

[adammcmillen1]

china is gonna be mad...this is great! "Industry in America!"

[sandylioness]

I want a RepRap that creates fabric! Being able to design clothes online, custom to my current measurements and tastes... I'd never have to deal with rude salespeople, crowded stores, clothes that don't fit, not finding what I want. I wouldn't have a closet full of different sizes. I'd be so happy.

[9dark96angel]

@sandylioness + it wont be Chinese made :)

[Sikamaster]

This concept needs to be widened to community level facilities. How about a community metal shop that could copy itself to the next community and so on. This would require humans to be involved with the process but that's actually a good thing. Parts made in one place, workers move them and build to next location. With a near by place that could do heavier parts the number of things possible to make with this technology will explode...

[tomosart]

Beautiful

[Esurname]

This is a great Idea, The next step is a Robot  that can assemble the replicator and itself. You may like my youtube channel, Reprap. org came up on my youtube discovery page?? I bet I could print something amazing...!

[adventure1x1]

For those wanting to get a reprap but don't have the time to either collect the pieces or those that don't have the time to assemble a kit. We sell the Mendel in kit form or a fully functional ready to go unit. There is a backorder so get on the list. Contact me dragon@in-tch.com with the subject line Mendel. The kit will run you around $1100.00 US and a fully functional unit will run you around $1700.00 US. Shipping costs will very.

[Shalek]

This will hurt the warhammer industry. Excellent job.

[obebogie]

I can see this being useful in DT departments in schools but not much else. Even if you could build circuit boards in the second version you'd still need to source and solder on all the components yourself. What we're looking at here is a basicly a computer controlled glue gun. Good educational tool but it isn't going to change the world.

[21EC]

the quality of the printed objects with this printer is just poor so its not worth it, maybe if they could make it print the 3d models more accurately then itll be decent (and also make it even cheaper) but as for now this printer is yet to be good

[McSkitzy]

Whoop d bloody do! now evreyone can have a plastic printing printer! look out coat hanger makers this may be the begining of the end! seriously do they think that people are going to do this? The hassle you would have to go through to be able to make plastic hangers??

[DrPhrenology]

This is most promising technology for world change in existence. Good work!

[Fiskmaz]

fireraisr:

So what, cure poverty with "motivation"? 1 billion need food, not life coaches.

[Kuukunen2]

They don't need food. What they need is means to get food.

Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish ; and you have fed him for a lifetime

People also need to stop reproducing so much.

[gamma235]

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

[Fiskmaz]

walter0bz:

Actually you're wrong. Generally, population grows rapidly when people are poor (they need lots of children to survive). In developed nations, for example Sweden and Germany, the population would DECREASE if it wasn't for immigration. So the cure for overpopulation? Equal distribution of the earths resources to the people so everybody have a decent economic ground to stand on and therefore won't need many children. (And of course a RepRap in every home! =)

[fireraisr]

sure if you believe communism is the path to prosperity. if all resources are distributed equally there is no motivation for contribution as you will always get your "equal" share, such ideas are the path despair.

[str8out]

Judgment Day!!! This reminds me of Terminator, the day machines take over. *faved*

[bitplane]

Sir James Dyson said RepRap has far reaching consequences, then lobbied the government to make patent violations a criminal offence.

[docter5lan]

Raw resources and the distribution should never be controlled by a select few. Any government should step in to remove this private control.

[awfulpwn]

This isn't under private control. Anyone can make one; in fact, there are videos on YouTube that teach you how.

[Fiskmaz]

awfulpwn:

docter5lan is talking about the RAW material. And I agree with him, the raw material should be own by the community.

Think of it! Everybody with a machine like this and democraticaly distributed raw material, that's a base for an equal society.

[walter0bz]

Fascinating stuff!

Has anyone used it to make bespoke lego bricks :)

[combination of rare bespoke parts with mass produced

common components ??]

I guess for most applications the energy for mass-production+distribution will be less than the energy this takes to assemble things, but i'm sure it has a niche somewhere... its the sort of thing that will find a practical use even if it looks like an academic curiosity now

[adrianbowyer]

Just in the same way that computers eliminated all those jobs that they were going to in the 1960s. After all, that's why we're all sunning ourselves on beaches now...

This idea is entirely wrong. It's not employment that creates wealth, it's wealth that creates employment. And employment is definitely not a zero-sum game.

[mashersmasher]

@adrianbowyer

keeping jobs simply because you feel it's "wrong" to use a machine that can do it better in faster is just like giving a handout isn't it? like paying people to make boots on one end and paying more people to burn them on the other end just to give them a job. with an inexpensive 3d printer even an average person can build rapid prototypes making your ability to develop a viable product much easier.

[blaziermissy]

@adrianbowyer Congratulations on your invention.. Truly, a remarkable asset to humanity. But not all people are sunning themselves on the beach. Some people don't know where their next meal is coming from, if at all. Why can't we use the tech we have to make all redundant service jobs (most of them) obsolete, create abundant goods for all people, and implement a rbe with the complimentary social values?

[susan22]

another way to eliminate more jobs

[Sepero1]

@susan22

Your presupposition is that there are only a finite number of jobs. In reality, there are an infinite number of jobs, and as long as humans have desire, jobs will always exist.

[Rapido3d]

The problem is you still have to buy the raw materials and have them delivered, so you might as well get the part you want delivered in the correct more eye pleasing finish. Great hobby but I don't see it being practical for a few decades yet.

[bitplane]

If we were to use bioplastics grown in vats then most of the parts could be made from plant food, sunlight and rainwater.

[TBonePickensetc]

Its pretty much a waste of time and resources. Small scale manufacture.

Google technocracy technate.

A non market economic system using energy accounting is the next most logical thing if survival is at issue.

[athinsz]

This invention could really have a huge impact on how we live our lives in 5-10 years. The fact that it's open source makes it that more valuable. I guess the last hurdle before we end up with the Star Trek utopia is that a select few still controls the raw materials and the distribution of it. Maybe that can change too in time. I sure hope so. Keep fighting the good fight.

[walter0bz]

This is great tech but it wont bring a star trek utopia.

Various inventions incrementally provide energy-savings or harness new energy sources, but human population growth will always exceeds the available energy increase, resulting in misery ad infinitum. people want to live longer and/or have more kids...

the only way to have a star-trek utopia is population-control

[Wykfo]

i'd argue that that's what's happened so far, but it shouldn't be taken as an absolute rule. i also think more people live comfortable lives than 500 years ago...

[Slavestorms]

Star Trek is a Dystopia - The Universe run by the Navy. A military dictatorship. Everyone works for starfleet. They have the back story of diplomacy but it's all spies there too.

The real objective is the Borg. Resistance is futile. A post humanist socialist collective with a Queen somewhere running everything

[sorensop]

I do work in developing countries on projects aimed at building individual and organizational economic and social self-sufficiency. This invention and this "movement" has the potential to positively empower millions of people around the world in the same way that microcredit has. My congratulations to everyone involved! Pete.

[israelandersonvideo]

An interesting waste of time, but it has no practical utility whatsoever except for radical hobbyists.

[bonkers45]

Spose you were saying there was no housing bubble a few years ago.

[israelandersonvideo]

Not sure what the hell that has to do with ANYTHING to do with a hobbyist plastic squirter. That has GOT to have been the most stupid strawman man, diversion attempt I have ever encountered.

I have been following the people that predicted our mess for a long time.

People are not going to have one of these in their homes. PERIOD. If you think otherwise, I bet you still use a C64.

[kw1ksh0t]

Your an idiot

[israelandersonvideo]

Let's see who's the idiot in 10 years shall we :)

It's amazing the misdirected passion in some people. If you think this device is going to get anywhere, you really need to seek professional help.

There's a reason Linux doesn't dominate the desktop. And it's the same reason this plastic ejaculator will never get anywhere.

[kw1ksh0t]

The fact is is that Linux has already dominated alot of the netbook market and is actually working it's way up, I bet you thought Firefox would never catch on!

Let's see who's the idiot in 10 years...

[kw1ksh0t]

When the winds of change were blowing, some built shelters, the others built windmills.

[Indrius]

Why so much hate? What's your point? Self-replicators will be available in the future, simply because it is a feasible technology. Whether you like it or not. You're just like one of those pompous self-righteous people who were shouting there will be no computers in peoples' homes and that they're just expensive toys with no practical use some 50 years ago.

[internate]

Freaking Genius!! I want one.

[mczerone]

Once there is a multi-material option, I'm in.

Think of a computer that can design, print, and replace its own circuitry...

[evilbc]

this is great, i love this invention. very nice video, it explains the potential of RepRap well.

[KennyWrites]

I've been following this cool project for a few years now. Haven't built one yet but I might someday. By the way, 500.00 Euros = 696.25 U.S. Dollars.