Man! these kinda news only arouse my interest to combine my programming knowledge with some yet-to-learn microcontroller stuff. Both seem like a deadly combo th

Man! these kinda news only arouse my interest to combine my programming knowledge with some yet-to-learn microcontroller stuff. Both seem like a deadly combo that would make me wanna stop sleeping for 7 hours and situp and start learning electronics. Astonishingly, this RepRap is based on Arduino!!! The Arduino Decimelia board has 16KB of memory(!). So it seems like the arduino serves for temporarily storing variable data while the computer does the processing. Wouldn't the printer be more faster if it uses a BeagleBoard or something like that? It would enable faster calculations locally and would help in saving the processing power of the computer for some other purpose(maybe to be to do further calculations since printing 3D requires more calculations ofcourse). The http://parts.reprap.org http://parts.reprap.org site is a great idea. It gives those who wanna build reprap a great idea about prices and parts suppliers and what to specifically buy. It even supports creating your shopping cart on Digikey and Amazon etc :) A cool idea with a really cool and helpful resource site. And IMO, it wouldn't be too late before we seen an IronMan. I remember a scene in the movie in which Stark selects his colors for the suit and the robot paints the suit while Tony waits. Now its more possible ('realistic') to even design the suit and wait for the printer to print it. Don't be shocked if someone comes outta the dark shouts I'm IronMan in a few days :D