RelatedSites

-- Main.AdrianBowyer - 25 Feb 2006

Some universal constructor, rapid prototyping, or otherwise relevant sites on the web

• Moshe Sipper's Artificial Self-replication page.
• The Worldwide Rapid Prototyping Directory.
• fabbers.com - Digital Fabrication Portal.
• Matt Moses' Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines pages.
• 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.
• 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.