self-replicating rapid prototyper

Dr. Adrian Bowyer,a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in the UK, has designed The machine that can copy anything.

To encourage that development, the design of the RepRap will be made available online and free to use, in the same way as open source software such as the Linux operating system or Mozilla's Firefox browser.

"The most interesting part of this is that we're going to give it away," said Bowyer.

"If these machines take off, it will give individual people the chance to do this themselves, and we are talking about making a lot of our consumer goods. The effect this has on industry and society could be dramatic."


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