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self-replicating replicator machines
Monday, 20 June 2005 02:06 amI should have posted this a few days ago after ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rpeate showed me a CNN article about it.
It is the RepRap Project.
Replicator technology is poised to change a lot of how we do things. It is based upon 3d printing technology, which has been around for some time now but has been too expensive to gain much of a toehold. RepRap will be cheap enough to make it into general, widespread use, but more importantly, will actually be able to replicate itself. Best if all the developer, Dr Adrian Bowyer, is going to give it away.
The project is a kind of opensource hardware project -- the hardware is created by the software
http://www.reprap.org/
http://reprap.blogspot.com/
http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/000293.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7165
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html
Perhaps you are wondering what use is a machine that can make copies of itself? Simple. It will also make a lot of the items you would normally buy down at the corner store or supermarket.Such a device could make it possible for the poorest people on the planet to have many of the objects we in the rich nations take for granted.
As they say on the site, "Wealth without money..."
Now you see why this is revolutionary.
rpeate showed me a CNN article about it.It is the RepRap Project.
Replicator technology is poised to change a lot of how we do things. It is based upon 3d printing technology, which has been around for some time now but has been too expensive to gain much of a toehold. RepRap will be cheap enough to make it into general, widespread use, but more importantly, will actually be able to replicate itself. Best if all the developer, Dr Adrian Bowyer, is going to give it away.
The project is a kind of opensource hardware project -- the hardware is created by the software
http://www.reprap.org/
http://reprap.blogspot.com/
http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/000293.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7165
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html
Perhaps you are wondering what use is a machine that can make copies of itself? Simple. It will also make a lot of the items you would normally buy down at the corner store or supermarket.Such a device could make it possible for the poorest people on the planet to have many of the objects we in the rich nations take for granted.
As they say on the site, "Wealth without money..."
Now you see why this is revolutionary.