Post by ash on Jan 12, 2010 10:06:15 GMT 9.5
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I know this is old hat but what I did not realise is that this machine has actually made a working copy of itself... well most of the parts anyways:
Replication
complete replicated machine
Adrian Bowyer (left) and Vik Olliver (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap machine, made by the RepRap on the left. The child machine made its first successful grandchild part at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May 2008 at Bath University in the UK, a few minutes after it was assembled.
Not counting nuts and bolts RepRap can make 50% of its parts; the other parts are designed to be cheaply available everywhere.
To increase that 50%, the next version of RepRap will be able to make its own electric circuitry - a technology we have already proved experimentally - though not its electronic chips. After that we'll look to doing transistors with it, and so on...
The primary goal of the RepRap project is to create and to give away a makes-useful-stuff machine that, among other things, allows its owner cheaply and easily to make another such machine for someone else.
Man why could we not have engineered the zombie virus first?
I Have a better chance of dealing with those..... but machines?!?!
(and yes, im being a little tongue in cheek here)
I know this is old hat but what I did not realise is that this machine has actually made a working copy of itself... well most of the parts anyways:
Replication
complete replicated machine
Adrian Bowyer (left) and Vik Olliver (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap machine, made by the RepRap on the left. The child machine made its first successful grandchild part at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May 2008 at Bath University in the UK, a few minutes after it was assembled.
Not counting nuts and bolts RepRap can make 50% of its parts; the other parts are designed to be cheaply available everywhere.
To increase that 50%, the next version of RepRap will be able to make its own electric circuitry - a technology we have already proved experimentally - though not its electronic chips. After that we'll look to doing transistors with it, and so on...
The primary goal of the RepRap project is to create and to give away a makes-useful-stuff machine that, among other things, allows its owner cheaply and easily to make another such machine for someone else.
Man why could we not have engineered the zombie virus first?
I Have a better chance of dealing with those..... but machines?!?!
(and yes, im being a little tongue in cheek here)
