Viral Fabrication

The objective of the RepRap project is to give away the designs for a machine that anyone can use to make many of the goods that we all have to currently buy and anyone can use their RepRap machine to make more RepRap machines for other people.

Keri Collins, Narrator

RepRap from Adrian Bowyer on Vimeo.

Will the trends of self-reliance and re-generation spur the viral growth of the RepRap movement? Could the spread of home manufacturing with fossil-fuel based materials prove environmentally detrimental as people will fabricate more stuff than they need? Will this take humanity into new levels of conservation innovation? Desktop manufacturing is a game-changer – for the good or bad remains to be seen.

- Keith Gerr

PS – 3D printing for new tissues and organs? chekit