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.

Comments

Re:You know..

[sribe]

when machines start building parts to repair themselves fully, it will be akin to humans procreating..

What are you trying to say? That soon 35% of internet traffic will be videos of machines building parts?

Re:Why Not Regular Printers?

[ArcadeMan]

P.S.: VGA should have died years ago. We have digital video cards and digital monitors but we're still using analog signals like it's a frickin' TV from 1960.

Re:Why Not Regular Printers?

[ArcadeMan]

I got an HP DeskJet 500 on the floor right here, ready to be taken apart for its smooth rods and stepper motors, parts that will be used to build a desktop CNC.

Re:Why Not Regular Printers?

[WillAdams]

The ShapeOko is a well-documented, opensource and affordable hobby-levek CNC router:

http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Re:Can Print its own parts?

[Anonymous Coward]

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? :)