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My favorite thing about these printers is the ability to print replacement parts for parts that you know will wear out first. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1
by nirmal 17y ago
My favorite thing about these printers is the ability to print replacement parts for parts that you know will wear out first. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1553 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1553 Hardware bugs that can be solved by emailing a model file. :)
- alastair 17y agoSounds like the eventual goal of the Reprap project. "RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer" - See http://reprap.org/ http://reprap.org/ for more info.
- mbrubeck 17y agoThat's not surprising, since MakerBot founder Zach Smith is a RepRap contributor and also runs the RepRap Research Foundation (http://www.rrrf.org/ http://www.rrrf.org/). MakerBot's fabricators are based on RepRap designs and software, and they also sell RepRap parts in their store. The two projects still contribute code and ideas to each other, for example: http://blog.reprap.org/2009/08/one-of-my-partners-at-makerbo.. http://blog.reprap.org/2009/08/one-of-my-partners-at-makerbo....