RepRapWiki. TEDxEWB Talk: Adrian Bowyer at Imperial College, London, introduces RepRap RepRap is humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine. RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself - a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials.
It also means that - if you've got a RepRap - you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend... RepRap is about making self-replicating machines, and making them freely available for the benefit of everyone. We are using 3D printing to do this, but if you have other technologies that can copy themselves and that can be made freely available to all, then this is the place for you too.
Reprap.org is a community project, which means you are welcome to edit most pages on this site, or better yet, create new pages of your own. Build A RepRap. MakerBot. Arduino. MakerScanner. Build Your Own 3D Scanner. FabScan open source 3D scanner. Open source 3D scanner in time to save Christmas… It’s nearly Christmas, but you suddenly realised you’ve forgotten to make a present for your precious grandmother who you had promised to craft a personal gift for. What do you do? FabScan may be your only hope, other than blatantly lying to her, that the mass produced gift you bought at the last minute was actually made by you.
Fortunately with FabScan and 3D printing you can turn modelling clay sculpts into hard physical models to save your family’s Christmas. Clearly FabScan was created by Francis Engelmann for his Bachelor thesis at The Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University for just these critical occasions. FabScan is an opensource kit-set 3D scanner that generates point cloud data from any 3D form with an ordinary webcam and laser line level. FabScan, true to maker traditions is housed in a well designed laser cut MDF case and includes Arduino controlled stepper motors.