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Dan Hockey

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Aug 7, 2009, 8:02:24 PM8/7/09
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Jeff Sampson

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Aug 11, 2009, 11:38:24 PM8/11/09
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I was digging back through our email archive. I found the following post
about another table top fabricator. This was from 2007 but the second
link still works.

Jeff Sampson
http://tcrobots.org/members/jsamp.htm

Pete Bergstrom wrote:
> Boy, I wish I'd grabbed Alan's XYZ table now...
>
> From slashdot:
>
> "Two Carnegie Mellon researchers have designed an open source 3D printer
> that costs just $2,400. The self-assembly kit is part of what they call
> the Fab@Home project — they hope it will spark development of rapid
> prototyping for the consumer market in the same way the Altair 8800 did
> for personal computing in seventies." Here is a video showing a
> completed machine constructing a silicone bulb (16-MB WMV).
>
> Article describing project:
>
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10922-desktop-fabricator-may-kickstart-home-revolution.html
>
> Website containing plans, software
> http://www.fabathome.org/
>
> Here's the movie:
>
http://web.mae.cornell.edu/ccsl/temp/EvanMalone/FabAtHome/SqueezeBulbDemoMovie.wmv
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcrobots/

Jeff Sampson
http://tcrobots.org/members/jsamp.htm

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