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RepRap Morgan Receives $20,000 Gada Prize For Simplifying 3D-Printer

An anonymous reader writes "South African Quentin Harley has picked up the $20,000 Gada Uplift prize for making the open source RepRap 3D printer design easier to build, cheaper to construct, and — most importantly — capable of printing more of its own parts. Lots of background on Harley and his RepRap Morgan are available on his website." A further goal of the RepRap Morgan project is to replace the Prusa Mendel as the default RepRap model. And they are on track to hit less than $100 in parts, excluding the printing bed. You can grab the hardware design and the controller firmware over at Github.

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  1. Re:Can Print its own parts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Two options:

    1. Pre-emptive printing of spare parts;
    2. Ask a friend to print it on his RepRap, and buy him a beer;

    Woosh, right? :)