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

Posted by Unknown on from the zero-one-nearly-online dept.

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. Why Not Regular Printers? by sycodon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why does it still take fucking drivers, patches, and voodoo to fucking hook up a regular printer and make it function?

    Shit, I can plug in a VGA 13" or a 42" flat panel and the computer runs that just fine. Printers, I guess, are beyond the average PhD at Microsoft and Apple.

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