Comments on: Self-Replicating 3D printer http://v1.ripper234.com/p/self-replicating-3d-printer/ Stuff Ron Gross Finds Interesting Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: ripper234 http://v1.ripper234.com/p/self-replicating-3d-printer/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:51:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/self-replicating-3d-printer/#comment-380 Yeah, the article really doesn’t reveal much if anything of how this is achieved.

As I said, it still looks like a research project, but you have to admit that in theory the idea is possible. I have not investigated how these 3D printers even work, but beyond “difficult engineering” problems I don’t see why this product can’t exist now or in the near future. The robot dog I wrote about before would have surely seem like SciFi 10-15 years ago.

]]> By: Eli http://v1.ripper234.com/p/self-replicating-3d-printer/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:28:00 +0000 http://localhost/p/self-replicating-3d-printer/#comment-379 While the idea sounds terrific(*), from reading the website it looks like rubbish.

Plastic 3-D “printers” are not a new technology, mechanical engineers are using them to build mock-ups and models for at least a few years, for prices affordable to mechanical shops.
But I’m really curious how these guys intend to “print” the printer’s hardware (especially the integrated circuits) and software, metallic parts, wires, and so on.

(*) I’m sure Hofstadter would’ve been ecstatic

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