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Self Replicating Rapid Prototype Machine |
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Written by William Cox
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Sunday, 05 June 2005 |
 It seems to me that this article is full of handwaving, but here goes -
apparently, a doctor of Mechanical Engineering in the UK has come up
with a self replicating rapid prototype machine, you know, the ones
that can create anything by building up layers of plastic? His plans
are to eventually market such a machine to developing nations to help
create low cost products. Pictured is a robot that was created using
the machine.
More interesting, is that, "To encourage that development, Bowyer plans
to make the design of the RepRap available online and free to use ... "
Slashdot coverage of the topic is here.
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