A 3D Printer On Every Desktop?

holy_calamity writes "Two Cornell 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).
Update: 01/10 04:02 GMT by KD : The developers of this kit are at Cornell, not Carnegie Mellon University as the original post erroneously stated.

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Can it "print" a copy of itself?

[mark-t]

Because _THAT_ would be cool...

By the way... how much do the consumables for this thing cost?

Rise of the Machines

[Swimport]

Can this thing print a copy of itself?