what the frak is a RepRap? (THE FUTURE IS OUR DOOM)
RepRap is either a project (movement?), a community or a robot, depending on context. The project is the creation of Professor Adrian Bowyer of the University of Bath (UK) who, in a Keynote Address on the RepRap project in June 2006, set out the goals of developing replicating rapid prototypers: machines that could replicate themselves.
More precisely, RepRaps had to be able to manufacture a substantial percentage of their own parts (built on Open Source designs, licensed for free under the Read more [...]