RepRap achieves replication!
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| Adrian (left) and Vik (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a
| conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap
| machine, made by the RepRap on the left. The child machine made its first
| successful grandchild part at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May 2008 at Bath
| University in the UK, a few minutes after it was assembled.
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http://blog.reprap.org/2008/06/reprap-achieves-replication.html
GPL. And as the photo shows, they use Ubuntu.
Recent:
Open source 3D printer copies itself
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| Accordingly, the RepRap machine is distributed, at no cost, under the GNU
| (General Public Licence).
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/2F5C3C5D68A380EDCC257423006E71CD
Related:
The open source 'make anything' machine
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| I spotted an interesting story in the Guardian newspaper over the
| weekend about RepRap, the "self-replicating rapid prototyper" project
| at Bath University.
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| [...]
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| "I did not want an individual, company or country to make money from
| this," Rep Rap founder, Dr Adrian Bowyer, told The Guardian. The
| results of the RepRap project are available under the GNU General
| Public License and are available at SourceForge.
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| Another point of interest, given the current climate in the open
| source market, is that it is already being predicted that RepRap will
| fall foul of IP lawyers. "Somewhere along this line the intellectual
| property people are going to come in and say 'No we don't want you
| all printing out Ferraris and we don't want you printing out
| pizzas'," Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, told The
| Guardian.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/the_open_source_1.html
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