The RepRap Research Foundation
Other Additive Fabrication and/or self-replication sites.
- Meshlab - useful for processing STL files.
- Wohlers Associates, Inc - an independent consulting firm providing technical and strategic advice on rapid product development and additive manufacturing
- Three-dimensional printers and 3d-printing technologies almanac
- The Worldwide Rapid Prototyping Directory.
- Fab@Home - an open-source 3D printer based on a syringe-squeezing mechanism and pre-cut acrylic sheet panels. This is some very nice work by Evan Malone and Hod Lipson at the Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory.
- The MultiMachine: a humanitarian, open source machine tool project for developing countries.
- DAVID Laserscanner A free laserscanner software package. See also here.
- Moshe Sipper's Artificial Self-replication page.
- Article on microfactories
- Paper-based transistors
- Easy-to-do Lab-on-a-chip technology from Mohamed Abdelgawad and Co at University of Toronto.
- fabbers.com - Digital Fabrication Portal.
- Matt Moses' Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines pages.
- The AdCiv site, which is dedicated to the study of the post-scarcity age.
- A Universal Constructor made from cellular automata by Renato Nobili and Umberto Pesavento.
- Ralph Merkle's work on Self replicating systems and low cost manufacturing.
- NASA and the Universal Constructor: Advanced Automation for Space Missions edited by Robert Freitas and William Gilbreath.
- Brock Hinzmann's paper: The Personal Factory.
- Josh Storrs Hall's systems-level analysis of self-replicating systems.
- The Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines pages and book by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle.
- The Norwegian Metal Printing Process project.
- The Cornell self-reproducing robot.
- Simon McAuliffe's Repstrap project: booting RepRap without an initial RP machine.
- The Clanking Replicator Project Site: bootstrapping yourself into very low-cost 3D protopyping technology
- Turbosquid: a big library of 3D designs for download, some free, some for money.
- The MIT Fab Lab project.
- Making a hot air, surface-mount soldering iron from a desoldering tool.
- Making negative resistance simply - a possible way for RepRap to make electronics.
- Ohmcraft FFF resistors
- How to drive inkjet printheads
- OScar the open-source car.
- The Open Prosthetics Project - these folk are designing new and useful prosthetics and giving the desgin plans away for free!
- Wiring - Wiring is an open source programming environment and electronics i/o board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics.
- Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing
- Processing - Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound.
- Printing electronics.
- Tux Droid - A wireless robotic penguin intended as a toy and a way of interacting with your computer.
- MechMate - A set of plans to build a large-scale (~2 meter x 3 meter) cnc router, to cut plywood sheet. The router frame is made from welded steel components. The plans are free to download for noncommercial use. Mechmate apparently started as a set of modifications to the commercial Shopbot CNC router system.
- Talk on her DIY chip manufacture by Jeri Ellsworth, DIY chip manufacture 1, DIY chip manufacture 2
Other free hardware
Building/Converting your own CNC machine.
Fabrication Shops
These are not recommendations. This is a non-exhaustive list of establishments that we have heard will make parts for individuals from designs that you supply electronically - such as
RepRap parts. If you feel yours should be here, or know of one that should be listed, please let us know:
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