reprap vs makerbot

[Abarbarian]

http://www.fabathome.org/?q=node/2

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http://chris.pirillo.com/do-you-want-a-makerbot-or-reprap-3d-printer/

Both of these projects work together to improve their designs. Actually, the founder of RepRap helped jumpstart and support MakerBot – both are different in a way. MakerBot is made from cheap stuff that anyone can find and build. RepRap is designed to self-replicate, but the downside of that if you don’t have a friend or some other resource who can give you those special parts (the ones that a machine would make), it’s difficult to make one. So people usually make one, to produce a RepRap, or make a temporary machine using the same motors and circuits to make the parts for it.

As V_R said this is one heck of an interesting technology.

 

[Abarbarian]

http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-features/62014-3d-printer-knocks-out-tiny-objects-fast

The TU Vienna team is now developing bio-compatible resins for medical applications, creating scaffolds to which living cells can attach themselves.

All they need ti do now is work out how to transplant the brain and we can all build the body we want and live for ever.