Craft, Trades & Making · Electronics & Making
A topic within Electronics & Making, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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Adrian Bowyer
Argues that a 3D printer capable of printing most of its own parts would let ordinary people manufacture goods for each other outside the money economy entirely, and sets this out as the founding rationale for the RepRap project.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Rhys Jones, Patrick Haufe, Edward Sells, Pejman Iravani, Vik Olliver, Chris Palmer & Adrian Bowyer
Reports on a 3D printer deliberately designed to print most of its own parts, arguing that a self-replicating machine released under a free licence could spread desktop manufacturing faster than any commercial product.
link checked 17 Sept 2026