1. RepRap
Manufacturing for the Masses
Adrian Bowyer
University of Bath, U.K.
fOSSa 2011, Lyon, 28 October 2011

2. What is RepRap?
RepRap is a self-replicating 3D printer

3. RepRap Facts
● RepRap can copy about half its own parts.
● The other half: hardware shops and on-line.
● Cost of all the materials €400.
●
Working volume: 200 x 200 x 140 mm3.
● Material: most plastics.
● Print rate: 19 ml/hour (one day to replicate).
● Licence: GPL.

4. RepRap Makes
http://thingiverse.com

5. 4
RepRap Makes
Michael Curry
http://thingiverse.com

6. Anyone with a RepRap can make
another RepRap for a friend
29 May 2008

7. It's like MP3 music sharing, but
for real solid stuff...
...ultimately any stuff

8. RepRap: destroyer of industry
London 1943

9. Destroying Things
London 2011
That way
never works

10. The Arrow of Time
Always
works

11. The Arrow of Time

12. The Arrow of Time

13. Biology – mutualist symbiosis
RepRap = flowers
People = insects
Goods = nectar

14. The Four Levels
WEAK
1. Rules
2. Economics
3. Biology
4. Physics
STRONG

15. The Future
Everyone in the
developed world
runs their own
CD pressing plant

16. The Future
Everyone in the
developed world
runs their own
CD pressing plant
Photographic Lab

17. The Future
Everyone in the
developed world
runs their own
CD pressing plant
Photographic Lab
And printing press

18. The Future
Why not their
own factory...

19. The Future
...that makes
more factories?

20. http//reprap.org