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OK but what's the best resource on what has happened / what progress has been made in the last 10-15 years? How are they better and what are the blocking issue
by chubot 5y ago
OK but what's the best resource on what has happened / what progress has been made in the last 10-15 years? How are they better and what are the blocking issues?
- marcosdumay 5y agoOh, I've reread your comment, and you want progress on self-replicating. RepRap won't lead to a full self-replicating machine. It's by design. The focus on self-replicating is because the most a machine is able to build itself, the cheapest its parts will be. A 3D printer nowadays can print almost every non-commodity part of itself that isn't electronics or runs very hot. There's no progress for it to make on that dimension. It has successfully taken down the price of printers. What progress has been made on the last decades were about things like easiness of printing, printing speed, materials handling, printer size, print volume, quality of printing.