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RepRap: the self-replicating 3D printer « dev8D. For anyone who has read Cory Doctorow’s Makers (and if you haven’t then I urge you to. It’s free under a Creative Commons licence) the idea of a self-replicating 3D printer will not come as a surprise. However, there is still something mind-boggling about seeing one in action and thinking through some of its potential uses. That was the treat in store for Dev8D participants today when Adrian Bowyer from the University of Bath demonstrated the RepRap. It’s a 3D printer that will not only print out plastic objects – from children’s shoes to doorhandles – but will also print out most of itself. As Bowyer says, “anyone with a RepRap can make one for a friend!” The RepRap can currently copy about half of its own parts and the others (such as nuts and bolts) are almost entirely available from general hardware stores with a couple of specialist components needing to be bought online.

“It will be difficult to put this genie back in the bottle,” he says. L'impression 3D, ce sera formidable... s'ils ne foutent pas tout en l'air ! L’impression 3D est en train de naître sous nos yeux. Demain il sera ainsi possible de reproduire toute sorte d’objets chez nous aussi facilement, ou presque, qu’un texte numérique se couche sur le papier à l’aide de notre bonne vieille imprimante 2D.

Les conséquences potentielles de la démocratisation d’un tel outil donnent le vertige et suscitent espoir et enthousiasme parmi les makers du monde entier[1] Pour rappel, l’impression 3D est une technique qui permet de produire un objet réel à partir d’un fichier CAO en le découpant en tranches puis en déposant ou solidifiant de la matière (plastique, cire, métal…) couche par couche pour, en fin de compte, obtenir la pièce terminée. C’est l’empilement de ces couches qui crée un volume. Si le concept et la technologie vous semblent encore un peu obscurs, je vous invite à regarder cette courte vidéo. Pour le moment on se déplace donc chez ceux qui disposent d’une telle imprimante, imprimante encore rudimentaires dans ses possibilités. 3D fabbers: don't let the DMCA stifle an innovative future. Last week, while unloading my dishwasher, I had a “eureka!”

Moment in which I suddenly understood why the machine had not been adequately cleaning up the cups and baby bottles in the upper rack: a small rubber tube had split open, and much of the water meant for the upper rack was spilling over the plates below instead. In the dark ages before the Internet, this might have meant an expensive house call from an appliance repair company. Today, it means going to the manufacturer's website, digging up the complete parts list for a decade-old appliance, and then placing an online order for the small rubber part, which will arrive in a box on your doorstep within the week. Magical! For now, anyway. As 3D scanners and 3D printers plunge in cost, designers and manufacturers are going to get worried.

"If the 3D printing community waits until that day to organize, it will be too late. " Meet the RepRap The community is already preparing for the battle. "I changed that," says Bowyer. 3-D Printers Make Manufacturing Accessible | Gadget Lab. 3-D printers can take blobs of plastic and shape them into almost any object you desire. Now, thanks to open source hardware designs and enthusiastic do-it-yourselfers, these printers are increasingly popular and accessible.

People are using them to fabricate iPod docks, plastic bracelets, hair clips and miniature teapots at home. The latest is Makerbot , a 3-D printer that started shipping in April and has sold more than 200 machines. “You put it together, and it makes things for you,” says Bre Pettis, co-founder of Makerbot. “Engineers, artists, architects and designers are getting [Makerbots] to turn the things of their imagination into real, physical objects.”

Makerbot also has a vibrant online community that is sharing designs and tips on how to churn out shiny little toys in just a few hours. 3-D printers can make it as easy to create small objects out of plastic as it is to print text on a sheet of paper. Makerbot is available at store.makerbot.com . Build It. {*style:<i> RepRap. High-Tech : L'imprimante 3D, votre usine à la maison. INTERVIEW - Fini les documents et le papier. Bientôt, vous pourrez répliquer, chez vous, des objets. Cathy Lewis, PDG de Desktop Factory, dévoile son imprimante en trois dimensions. Découvrez cet étrange engin en vidéo. A l'occasion du Forum Netxplorateurs, qui se tient deux jours durant au Sénat, Cathy Lewis, PDG de l'entreprise américaine Desktop Factory, est venue présenter sa Desktop Factory 125ci 3D Printer, qui fait partie des dix finalistes du «Grand Prix Netxplorateur 2008».

Cette boîte de la taille d'un mini four est capable de créer des objets en trois dimensions à partir d'une pâte de nylon et d'un faisceau halogène concentré. Démonstration du processus en vidéo (images accélérées): Lefigaro.fr: Votre entreprise lance sur le marché une imprimante 3D. Cathy Lewis: Nous voulons lancer la révolution de l'imprimante 3D personnelle. Personne, aujourd'hui, n'imprime au quotidien des objets en 3D. Je ne le crois pas. Oui. C'est un peu un choix par défaut.