thumb|All of the plastic parts for the machine on the right were produced by the machine on the left. [[Adrian Bowyer (left) and Vik Olliver (right) are members of the RepRap project.]]

RepRap (a contraction of replicating rapid prototyper) is a project to develop low-cost 3D printers that can print most of their own components. As open designs, all of the designs produced by the project are released under a free software license, the GNU General Public License.

References

  • Replication revolutionary . New Electronics, 12 December 2006.
  • 3D printer to churn out copies of itself. Celeste Biever, New Scientist, 18 March 2005
  • The machine that can copy anything. Simon Hooper, CNN, 2 June 2005
  • Self Replicating Robots And The Developing World. KnowProSE.com, 5 June 2005
  • Interview with Vik Olliver about RepRap, September 2006
  • Chinese Growth Hurdles toward a New Great Wall
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation audio interview with Adrian Bowyer
  • Video of a talk by Adrian Bowyer on RepRap