This is so cool. what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able t

This is so cool. what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €400). That way it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend... Open-source hardware in itself is interesting, but viral machines? Too cool. It reminds me of the olden days of bringing empty cassettes to a friend's place to copy some of their music.