What is RepRap? Introductory Lecture - Part 1 of 2
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Uploaded by samwab on May 24, 2009
"...the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment..." - The front page of The Guardian, November 25, 2006.
"Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop." - Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc., 8 April 2008.
"The promise of advanced fabrication technology that can copy itself is a truly remarkable concept with far reaching implications." - Sir James Dyson, 17 April 2007.
RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer
See http://www.reprap.org/ for more info on how to make your own.
Pop!Tech is a yearly conference on technical issues of world concern and on the technical innovations that may improve the future. In 2007 Dr. Adrian Bowyer was one of the invited speakers.
From http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/PopCasts.aspx?viewcastid=154
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Phu, it will always need human interaction to make another copy of itself. See it like a machine which can make objects (including it's own parts) with your help.
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@matchbox555 No, but you could print a hoe and spade, and plant some food.
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@digitaltripper I cant eat plastic
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@matchbox555 "Cigs" are worthless...So it can not make food or drink clothes....Hm...such a limited mind. It could make buttons, you know, something that is found on clothing. It could make a cup to hold the drink or a tray to hold the food or perhaps a light weight knife and fork that is better than those disposable ones we buy...
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@matchbox555 People have been using 3d printers to make food.
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@samwab ahhh now you are talking lol
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@matchbox555 google: thingiverse 1216
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@IOPzK this thing cant make me a nice juicy piece of ass
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@matchbox555 You need bread , water and a house . The first 2 are cheap and the last one will be made in a day with this . So rethink
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what we really need is this watch?v=zqyZ9bFl_qg
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cant make food, drink, clothes or cigs
worthless
matchbox555 1 year ago
@matchbox555 You could design a little Reprapable plastic robot help grow tobacco and another machine that could role the cigarettes.
samwab 1 year ago 19