Fwd: [bhs] Meet the Robisons and Their Low-Cost RepRap Kit (Video) - Slashdot

[John Sechrest]

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From: Anthony Penzinski <ant...@penzinski.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:36 PM
Subject: [bhs] Meet the Robisons and Their Low-Cost RepRap Kit (Video) - Slashdot
To: Bellingham Hacker Space <bellingha...@googlegroups.com>

It seems like less than an hour since Slashdot ran a Report From
HOPE: The State of Community Fabrication. Now we have a video about a
Massachusetts mother and son team we met at HOPE that had so much
trouble with commercial RepRap machines that they designed their own
and started marketing it under the name Robison Industries, a company
they seem to be starting on the fly that uses their local hackerspace
as its manufacturing location. Interested in RepRap? Maybe not yet,
but as devotees of the concept point out, nobody outside a small
circle of geeks was interested in personal computers at first, but
they're ubiquitous today. Will we all have 3D printers on our desks
in a few years? Good question. round us up in 2020 or 2025 at our
local hackerspace and we may have an answer for you.

For those interesting in further reading, a selection of links
mentioned in the video:

Wildseyes Simple hot end. A project to add dual extruders to the
RepRap (another attempt, and some general chatter about the idea).
Automated circuitry manufacturing with the RepRap. An inkjet head for
the RepRap, made by the RepRap.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/18/238221/meet-the-robisons-and-their-low-cost-reprap-kit-video
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