“Wealth without money…”

March 13, 2010

RepRap es uno de esos proyectos que vuelve tangible la imaginación. Literalmente, pues esta maquina de prototipado 3D, ademas de imprimir capa por capa modelos de polimeros orgánicos creados por computadora,  es tambien capaz de replicar  sus más esenciales piezas, por lo que  RepRap redime a Von Neumann de sus utopías y pone en nuestras manos su “constructor universal”.

“Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop.”
- Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc., 8 April 2008.

“The promise of advanced fabrication technology that can copy itself is a truly remarkable concept with far reaching implications.”

- Sir James Dyson, 17 April 2007.

“[RepRap] has been called the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment…”

- The front page of The Guardian, November 25, 2006.

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