Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap

Posted by Unknown on Monday December 9, 2013 @08:08PM from the reprap-to-take-over-world dept.

hypnosec writes "Researchers have developed and open-sourced a low-cost 3D metal printer capable of printing metal tools and objects that can be build for under £1,000. A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Joshua Pearce at the Michigan Technological University developed the firmware and the plans for the printer and have made it available freely. The open source 3D printer is definitely a huge leap forward as the starting price of commercial counterparts is around £300,000. Pearce claimed that their technology will not only allow smaller companies and start-ups to build inexpensive prototypes, but it will allow other scientists and researchers to build tools and objects required for their research without having to shell out thousands, and could be used to print parts for machines such as windmills." It's a modified RepRap; looks like we're getting closer to the RepRap being able to print all of its parts.

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Re:WHAT IS THE POINT ?? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-09 20:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Buy all the other parts off the record. No registration. Untraceable. Full auto. Deadly. All set? Go shoot a bear. Remove arms from bear. You have a right to those, just like your founding fathers sought.