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The RepRap Team

[[AdrianBowyer|

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Adrian Bowyer]]

This guy is the man. Founder and leader of the RepRap project. (AB: Ahem! One of the advantages of a wiki is that one can dive in an edit things created by one's colleagues when modesty demands; I am but _a_ man...)

[[VikOlliver|

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Vik Olliver]]

is a longhair programmer/developer/artist with workshops in the Waitakere rainforest. He fights fires, programs PIC and PCs, raises kids and cats, welds, cuts, cooks and grows hydroponics for space research. He believes that specialisation is just for insects. He can be found at [[1]]

[[EdSells|

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Ed Sells]]

is currently walking the length of New Zealand (both bits...). He worked on the RepRap Project for his PhD, which he was awarded by Bath University in 2009.

[[SimonMcAuliffe|

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Simon McAuliffe]]

is a software developer from New Zealand who also dabbles with electronics.

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Chris Palmer]]

is a software developer and electronics designer in the North West of England by day. The rest of my life has been taken over by RepRap.

[[SebastienBailard|

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Sebastien Bailard]]

is a professional student/amateur artist/ex physics grad student located in the wilds of Canada, interested in making a fused filament fabrication reprap for the inherent coolness, and with an eye to jewelry and metal figurines. Mostly the coolness.

[[IanAdkins|

Ian Adkins]]

is a mechatronics engineer (whatever that is...) working to make RepRap accessible to all.

[[ForrestHiggs|

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Forrest Higgs]]

is a former professor and research scientist in building science who presently consults in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence on the California central coast.

[[JonathanMarsden|

Jonathan Marsden]]

is sorting out lots of the Java host software and C firmware for RepRap.

[[MichaelHart|

Michael Hart]]

is the founder of the aclaimed Project Gutenberg and is interested in RepRap for its potential as a disruptive technology.

[[ZachSmith|

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Zach Smith ]]

Documentation Slave, Beta Tester, and self-proclaimed #1 RepRap Fanboy.

[[SteveDeGroof|

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Steve DeGroof ]]

is a computer programmer in North Carolina. His interests include electronics, writing, critical thinking, webcomics, chemistry, physics, photography, alternative energy, cooking and figuring out where all his spare time went...

[[Enrique Perez|

Enrique Perez ]]

is a hippie who built several boats. They sank; he's hoping to reprap one which floats.

[[Chris Meighan|

Chris Meighan ]]

is an artist and programmer originally from Scotland but now living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His website is here.

[[Philipp Tiefenbacher|

Philipp Tiefenbacher]]

is juggling math studies, a part-time programmer job and teaching electronics to art students. What he claims to be a healthy obsession for blinking things is only surpassed with the passion for the RepRap project. Together with Marius he forms the RepRap Team at Metalab.

[[Marius Kintel|

Marius Kintel]]

is a Norwegian who moved to Austria to be closer to his better half. He's writing 3D visualization software by day and hacking all things blinking and moving at the Metalab in Vienna by night. He forms the Metalab RepRap team together with Philipp.

[[Bruce Wattendorf|

Nick+Bruce Wattendorf]]

have created the first working RepRap out of wood!!! They have also helped build the Makerbot. Nick is currently the youngest kid to build a RepRap successfully. Bruce is currently building parts to make another machine. They have a google group which you can view here http://groups.google.com/group/new-england-reprap and also now we have a google site http://sites.google.com/site/newenglandreprapgroup/

[[Rhys Jones|

Rhys Jones]]

is a research student at Bath University. He is working on printing with multiple different materials in RepRap for his PhD.