RepRap - DIY 3D Printer for a few hundred dollars

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the component up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself.

So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €400). That way it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend !

Time lapse video of Adrian Bowyer building the first RepRap Darwin machine:




http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

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