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The Printer that Prints (60% of) Itself
- swombat 18y agoI think this is the third time I see this posted on HN. I'm glad it's not presented as a "self-replicating" machine anymore.
- streety 18y agoCurrently the project remains some way short of that holy grail. Bowyer estimates that Darwin can replicate about 60% of itself, and he even extends the Darwinian evolutionary metaphor to this figure. According to the RepRap website, "this is an interesting coincidence: we can make 60% of our proteins." Sadly I couldn't find a reference.
- ph0rque 18y agohttp://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome#Replication http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome#Replication , second paragraph in the "Replication" section.
- streety 18y agoI wasn't doubting the accuracy of the article in claiming the statement was on the reprap site. I was doubting the accuracy of the statement. I don't believe we're unable to manufacture 40% of our proteins.
- pyroman 18y ago60% is pretty good, but even if it was up to 100% it would still have this problem "the RepRap can replicate the majority of its components at low cost but needs human intervention to assemble them into a working device" But that's not that big of a problem on earth
- tocomment 18y agoI was surprised to realize recently that DNA isn't really self replicating. It requires the infrastructure of a cell, RNA, proteins, etc in order to be replicated.