How to build RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapOneDarwin


Hopes to be self replicating in 2008. Currently estimated at € 400 which would be about $571 US. Reviewed in Boinboing Gadgets having showed up at POP!Tech. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/1 ... drian.html

Screw the cnc! Just kidding but I guess we have reached the level as a society where almost nothing is impossible. The skys the limit, I am yelling at the kids in our group that are better at math than myself.

Well up to now the only machine that could replicate itself was a manual milling machine in the hands of a good machinist. Like the big iron that you're working on, which reminds me of a Bridgeport at first glance. I met a Swiss immigrant (close to 80 years old now) in Waukesha who said that he could do it. He used to rebuild machine tools for Centrifugal http://www.metaltekint.com/wisconsincentrifugal.html , so I believed him. They used to do stuff like the ring gear where the blades go for jet engines.

ps. Don't yell at the kids that are better in math, pick their brains and find out how they do it. I found that practice, practice, practice helps. Do every problem for which there is a know answer, learn how.

Yeah the Shizouka is a brigeport type knee mill. used to run on punch cards. Anywho.

I have issues regarding memory and in other cognitive areas. However my problem solving skills are very acute. I wouldn't trade an ounce of problem solving for extra cognitive.

Make is doing a (pretty big) thing about the Reprap Robot. Here's Part 1: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/20 ... art_1.html

YouTube, Podcasts, PDFs. I'm enjoying just looking at this point.

http://www.georgehart.com/rp/rp.html

Scroll down and look at what [strike]is being[/strike] was done in 2004. Most all of the .STL files too, in case anyone was to print their own :)