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What would you make with it?


Note: We have set up a wiki to host your created objects on. Check it out here.

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Utilitarian Items

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Utilitarian Items


  • A shotglass with RepRap written on it.
  • A set of RepRap cutlery
  • A RepRap paperweight/executive toy for unemployed executives
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  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot
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Robot Prototyping

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Robot Prototyping


  • Gear trains
  • Tracks and bogies
  • Wheels
  • Custom designed chassis
  • Systems enclosures
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Power Generation

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Power Generation


  • A small windmill
  • A small waterwheel
  • Silicon crystal grower (for making cheap/low efficiency solar cells)
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Goods For The Needy

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Goods For The Needy


  • A water purifier
  • Hydroponics components
  • Framework for solar reflector
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  • Wind-up lamp
  • Educational models - mechanisms, body parts etc.
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Medicine

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Medicine


  • Disposable/recyclable surgical instruments
  • Hypodermic syringes
  • Stethoscope
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  • Autoclave (solar?)
  • IUD
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Geek Toys

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Geek Toys


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  • SD Card
  • As close as we can get to a tricorder
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RepRap Adjuncts

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RepRap Adjuncts


  • 3D Scanner
  • Recycler
  • Electrospark erosion system
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  • Vapour deposition system
  • Ceramic slip extrustion head
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Advanced Tools

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Advanced Tools


  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
  • LSI or VLSI IC fabricator. This could be radically different and employ simpler methods to a production line IC fab because of the reprap economies.
  • An automated chemical factory that can mix and distill multiple components, while controlling temperature and pressure. (See here for a paper on microfluidic design.)
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  • OLED Display production system
  • Lens grinder
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Unsorted

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Unsorted


No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.
  • Elaborate chocolate novelties
  • A DVD player or some other demo item that everyday people understand that seems to have perceived value.
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  • Affordable head-mounted display
  • OBD-II Module to monitor car performance.
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Artwork

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Artwork


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Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to make weapons, and there is no way to make RepRap an exception. Give people an internal combustion engine, and a few will make tanks; at least many more will make ambulances...

-- Main.plaasjaapie - 11 May 2006

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No Weapons!

We are adamantly opposed to the creation of new weapons. However, every single other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has eventually been used to make weapons, and there is no way to make RepRap an exception. Give people an internal combustion engine, and a few will make tanks; at least many more will make ambulances.

 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.35 - 17 Feb 2007 - ZachSmith)
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Utilitarian Items

  • A shotglass with RepRap written on it.
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.34 - 07 Jun 2006 - AdrianBowyer)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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Utilitarian Items

  • A shotglass with RepRap written on it.
  • A set of RepRap cutlery
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.33 - 30 May 2006 - AdrianBowyer)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Methanol producer
  • Cooking gas generator and reservoir
  • A solar water heater
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Goods For The Needy

  • A water purifier
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.32 - 16 May 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Refrigerator/freezer/heat pump
  • Automated book page turner
  • Wind-up lamp
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  • Educational models - mechanisms, body parts etc.

Medicine

  • Disposable/recyclable surgical instruments
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  • Fluidic logic
  • A Java computer to run the RepRap software, or some other simple computer to run a port of it.
  • Vapour deposition system
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  • Ceramic slip extrustion head

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
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  • Affordable head-mounted display
  • OBD-II Module to monitor car performance.
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Artwork

This really needs a section of its own, so the RepRap Artwork Section has been created.

Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to make weapons, and there is no way to make RepRap an exception. Give people an internal combustion engine, and a few will make tanks; at least many more will make ambulances...
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.31 - 12 May 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • A set of RepRap cutlery
  • A RepRap paperweight/executive toy for unemployed executives
  • Unusual cookie cutters
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  • Storage containers

  • A wind instrument
  • Ink jet printers with purpose-made refillable cartridges
  • A lawn-mower bot
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.30 - 12 May 2006 - AdrianBowyer)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
  • LSI or VLSI IC fabricator. This could be radically different and employ simpler methods to a production line IC fab because of the reprap economies.
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  • An automated chemical factory that can mix and distill multiple components, while controlling temperature and pressure.
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  • Spectrum analyser (Infra-red?) for analysis of chemical compositions and testing purity etc.
  • IR Thermometer
  • Digital oscilliscope (use PC for display)
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.29 - 12 May 2006 - ForrestHiggs)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • A RepRap paperweight/executive toy for unemployed executives
  • Unusual cookie cutters
  • A wind instrument
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  • Ink jet printers with purpose-made refillable cartridges
  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot

Robot Prototyping

  • Gear trains
  • Tracks and bogies
  • Wheels
  • Custom designed chassis
  • Systems enclosures

Power Generation

  • A small windmill
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  • A DVD player or some other demo item that everyday people understand that seems to have perceived value.
  • General purpose digital scales
  • Accurate scales for measuring small quantities of chemicals etc (mg resolution or less).
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  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot

  • Fishing floats, lures, weights etc.
  • Passive non-return valve for liquids
  • Electrically operated valve for liquids (ball valve?)
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 No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to make weapons, and there is no way to make RepRap an exception. Give people an internal combustion engine, and a few will make tanks; at least many more will make ambulances...
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 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.28 - 10 May 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Electronic synthesiser
  • Open Source wristwatch
  • SD Card
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  • As close as we can get to a tricorder

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.27 - 09 May 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Fluid pump (gas and/or liquid)
  • pico-satellite
  • Affordable head-mounted display
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  • OBD-II Module to monitor car performance.

Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.26 - 04 May 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Soil/water nutrient measurement device.
  • Refrigerator/freezer/heat pump
  • Automated book page turner
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  • Wind-up lamp

Medicine

  • Disposable/recyclable surgical instruments
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  • Remote control hovercraft
  • Electronic synthesiser
  • Open Source wristwatch
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  • SD Card

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
  • Recycler
  • Electrospark erosion system
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  • Electrolysis erosion system (??)
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  • Electrolysis erosion system (uses electricity to bring the substrate into solution)
  • Generic keypad & display unit.

  • CNC hot wire cutter for materials like polystyrene, eg to be used for making accurate molds (for wind turbine blades, amongst other things)
  • Plastics factory, eg automated PLA production from corn right through to plastic.
  • Machine to draw or extrude copper or aluminium wire from raw metal scrap
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.25 - 02 May 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Vacuum pump
  • Fluidic logic
  • A Java computer to run the RepRap software, or some other simple computer to run a port of it.
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  • Vapour deposition system

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
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  • Digital oscilliscope (use PC for display)
  • Swarms of microbots
  • Air/gas liquifier
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  • OLED Display production system
  • Lens grinder

Unsorted

No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.
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  • Electrically operated valve for liquids (ball valve?)
  • Fluid pump (gas and/or liquid)
  • pico-satellite
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  • Affordable head-mounted display

Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.24 - 29 Apr 2006 - SimonMcAuliffe)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Recycler
  • Electrospark erosion system
  • Electrolysis erosion system (??)
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  • CNC hot wire cutter for materials like polystyrene, eg to be used for making accurate molds (for wind turbine blades, amongst other things)

  • Plastics factory, eg automated PLA production from corn right through to plastic.
  • Machine to draw or extrude copper or aluminium wire from raw metal scrap
  • Automated coil winder, maybe along the lines of the Gingery winder but for building motor coils (DC or steppers)
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.23 - 06 Mar 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Ice cream maker
  • Remote control hovercraft
  • Electronic synthesiser
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  • Open Source wristwatch

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.22 - 02 Mar 2006 - AdrianBowyer)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • IUD

Geek Toys

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  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
  • A self-organising peer-to-peer mesh based phone system
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  • A custom keyboard for gaming
  • A Nerf(TM) gun
  • Collapsing dodecahaedron
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.21 - 27 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • IR Thermometer
  • Digital oscilliscope (use PC for display)
  • Swarms of microbots
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  • Air/gas liquifier

Unsorted

No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.20 - 26 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Spectrum analyser (Infra-red?) for analysis of chemical compositions and testing purity etc.
  • IR Thermometer
  • Digital oscilliscope (use PC for display)
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  • Swarms of microbots

Unsorted

No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.19 - 25 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • A set of RepRap cutlery
  • A RepRap paperweight/executive toy for unemployed executives
  • Unusual cookie cutters
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  • A wind instrument

Power Generation

  • A small windmill
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  • A Book scanner
  • Ice cream maker
  • Remote control hovercraft
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  • Electronic synthesiser

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.18 - 23 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Pulse oxymeter
  • Oxygen generation & storage systems
  • Autoclave (solar?)
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  • IUD

Geek Toys

  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
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  • Passive non-return valve for liquids
  • Electrically operated valve for liquids (ball valve?)
  • Fluid pump (gas and/or liquid)
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  • pico-satellite

Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.17 - 21 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • PDA With a chord keyboard
  • A Book scanner
  • Ice cream maker
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  • Remote control hovercraft

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.16 - 19 Feb 2006 - SimonMcAuliffe)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Bio-diesel converter (from seed right through to bio-diesel)
  • Agricultural tools for smallholders
  • Soil/water nutrient measurement device.
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  • Refrigerator
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  • Refrigerator/freezer/heat pump

  • Automated book page turner

Medicine

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  • 3D Scanner
  • Recycler
  • Electrospark erosion system
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  • Electrolysis erosion system (??)

  • Plastics factory, eg automated PLA production from corn right through to plastic.
  • Machine to draw or extrude copper or aluminium wire from raw metal scrap
  • Automated coil winder, maybe along the lines of the Gingery winder but for building motor coils (DC or steppers)
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  • Organic semiconductor production factory.
  • Moulds of wax cores for "lost wax" casting, or even wax cores themselves.
  • USB/serial interface.
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  • Simple lathe perhaps re-using existing positioning system for movement of cutting tool. eg for machining some simple plastic parts that require rotational accuracy, etc.

  • Vacuum pump
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  • Fluidic logic
  • A Java computer to run the RepRap software, or some other simple computer to run a port of it.

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
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  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot
  • Fishing floats, lures, weights etc.
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  • Passive non-return valve for liquids
  • Electrically operated valve for liquids (ball valve?)
  • Fluid pump (gas and/or liquid)

Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.15 - 19 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Model of Tux the penguin
  • PDA With a chord keyboard
  • A Book scanner
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  • Ice cream maker

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.14 - 18 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Agricultural tools for smallholders
  • Soil/water nutrient measurement device.
  • Refrigerator
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  • Automated book page turner

Medicine

  • Disposable/recyclable surgical instruments
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  • Collapsing dodecahaedron
  • Model of Tux the penguin
  • PDA With a chord keyboard
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  • A Book scanner

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
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  • Organic semiconductor production factory.
  • Moulds of wax cores for "lost wax" casting, or even wax cores themselves.
  • USB/serial interface.
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  • Vacuum pump

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
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  • An automated chemical factory that can mix and distill multiple components, while controlling temperature and pressure.
  • Spectrum analyser (Infra-red?) for analysis of chemical compositions and testing purity etc.
  • IR Thermometer
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  • Digital oscilliscope (use PC for display)

Unsorted

No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.13 - 14 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • A shotglass with RepRap written on it.
  • A set of RepRap cutlery
  • A RepRap paperweight/executive toy for unemployed executives
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  • Unusual cookie cutters

Power Generation

  • A small windmill
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  • A manipulator of some kind that can assemble reprap parts into a machine (probably requiring parts to be re-designed for self-assembly too).
  • Organic semiconductor production factory.
  • Moulds of wax cores for "lost wax" casting, or even wax cores themselves.
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  • USB/serial interface.

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
  • LSI or VLSI IC fabricator. This could be radically different and employ simpler methods to a production line IC fab because of the reprap economies.
  • An automated chemical factory that can mix and distill multiple components, while controlling temperature and pressure.
  • Spectrum analyser (Infra-red?) for analysis of chemical compositions and testing purity etc.
Added:
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  • IR Thermometer

Unsorted

No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.
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  • Accurate scales for measuring small quantities of chemicals etc (mg resolution or less).
  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot
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  • Fishing floats, lures, weights etc.

Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.12 - 13 Feb 2006 - AdrianBowyer)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Methanol fuel cells
  • Methanol producer
  • Cooking gas generator and reservoir
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  • A solar water heater

Goods For The Needy

  • A water purifier
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  • CT scanner
  • Pulse oxymeter
  • Oxygen generation & storage systems
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  • Autoclave (solar?)

Geek Toys

  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
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  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot
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Weapons

No thanks. However, every other manufacturing technology that people have come up with has been used to make weapons, and there is no way to make RepRap an exception. Give people an internal combustion engine, and a few will make tanks; at least many more will make ambulances...

-- VikOlliver - 08 Feb 2006

 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.11 - 12 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Ultrasound scanner
  • Collimated X-ray source
  • CT scanner
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  • Pulse oxymeter
  • Oxygen generation & storage systems

Geek Toys

  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.10 - 12 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Silicon crystal grower (for making cheap/low efficiency solar cells)
  • Methanol fuel cells
  • Methanol producer
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  • Cooking gas generator and reservoir

Goods For The Needy

  • A water purifier
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.9 - 11 Feb 2006 - SimonMcAuliffe)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • A small waterwheel
  • Silicon crystal grower (for making cheap/low efficiency solar cells)
  • Methanol fuel cells
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  • Methanol producer

Goods For The Needy

  • A water purifier
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.8 - 11 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Automated PCR unit. Perhaps a continuation of the impressive work by Eva Harris. Also some automated mechanism (equivalent to electrophoresis) to visualise the DNA in order to identify disease pathogens, etc. Perhaps automated classification of pathogens.
  • Bio-diesel converter (from seed right through to bio-diesel)
  • Agricultural tools for smallholders
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  • Soil/water nutrient measurement device.
  • Refrigerator

Medicine

  • Disposable/recyclable surgical instruments
  • Hypodermic syringes
  • Stethoscope
  • Sphygmomanometer
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  • O/P Airways

  • Endoscope
  • Ultrasound scanner
  • Collimated X-ray source
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.7 - 11 Feb 2006 - SimonMcAuliffe)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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 No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.
  • Elaborate chocolate novelties
  • A DVD player or some other demo item that everyday people understand that seems to have perceived value.
Added:
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  • General purpose digital scales
  • Accurate scales for measuring small quantities of chemicals etc (mg resolution or less).

  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.6 - 09 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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  • Automated coil winder, maybe along the lines of the Gingery winder but for building motor coils (DC or steppers)
  • A manipulator of some kind that can assemble reprap parts into a machine (probably requiring parts to be re-designed for self-assembly too).
  • Organic semiconductor production factory.
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  • Moulds of wax cores for "lost wax" casting, or even wax cores themselves.

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?

Utilitarian Items

  • A shotglass with RepRap written on it.
  • A set of RepRap cutlery
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  • A RepRap paperweight/executive toy for unemployed executives

Power Generation

  • A small windmill
  • A small waterwheel
  • Silicon crystal grower (for making cheap/low efficiency solar cells)
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  • Methanol fuel cells

Goods For The Needy

  • A water purifier
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  • Drug manufacturing and purification systems
  • Automated PCR unit. Perhaps a continuation of the impressive work by Eva Harris. Also some automated mechanism (equivalent to electrophoresis) to visualise the DNA in order to identify disease pathogens, etc. Perhaps automated classification of pathogens.
  • Bio-diesel converter (from seed right through to bio-diesel)
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  • Agricultural tools for smallholders

Medicine

  • Disposable/recyclable surgical instruments
  • Hypodermic syringes
  • Stethoscope
  • Sphygmomanometer
  • Endoscope
  • Ultrasound scanner
  • Collimated X-ray source
  • CT scanner

Geek Toys

  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.4 - 08 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?
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  • Framework for solar reflector
  • Drug manufacturing and purification systems
  • Automated PCR unit. Perhaps a continuation of the impressive work by Eva Harris. Also some automated mechanism (equivalent to electrophoresis) to visualise the DNA in order to identify disease pathogens, etc. Perhaps automated classification of pathogens.
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  • Bio-diesel converter (from grain right through to bio-diesel)
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  • Bio-diesel converter (from seed right through to bio-diesel)

Geek Toys

  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
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  • A Nerf(TM) gun
  • Collapsing dodecahaedron
  • Model of Tux the penguin
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  • PDA With a chord keyboard

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
  • Recycler
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  • Electrospark erosion system

  • Plastics factory, eg automated PLA production from corn right through to plastic.
  • Machine to draw or extrude copper or aluminium wire from raw metal scrap
  • Automated coil winder, maybe along the lines of the Gingery winder but for building motor coils (DC or steppers)
  • A manipulator of some kind that can assemble reprap parts into a machine (probably requiring parts to be re-designed for self-assembly too).
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  • Organic semiconductor production factory.

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.3 - 08 Feb 2006 - SimonMcAuliffe)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?

Utilitarian Items

  • A shotglass with RepRap written on it.
Added:
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Power Generation

  • A small windmill
  • A small waterwheel
Added:
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>
  • Silicon crystal grower (for making cheap/low efficiency solar cells)

Goods For The Needy

  • A water purifier
  • Hydroponics components
  • Framework for solar reflector
  • Drug manufacturing and purification systems
Added:
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  • Automated PCR unit. Perhaps a continuation of the impressive work by Eva Harris. Also some automated mechanism (equivalent to electrophoresis) to visualise the DNA in order to identify disease pathogens, etc. Perhaps automated classification of pathogens.
  • Bio-diesel converter (from grain right through to bio-diesel)

Geek Toys

  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
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  • A self-organising peer-to-peer mesh based phone system

  • A custom keyboard for gaming
  • A Nerf(TM) gun
  • Collapsing dodecahaedron
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RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
  • Recycler
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  • Plastics factory
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  • Plastics factory, eg automated PLA production from corn right through to plastic.
  • Machine to draw or extrude copper or aluminium wire from raw metal scrap
  • Automated coil winder, maybe along the lines of the Gingery winder but for building motor coils (DC or steppers)
  • A manipulator of some kind that can assemble reprap parts into a machine (probably requiring parts to be re-designed for self-assembly too).

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)
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  • LSI or VLSI IC fabricator. This could be radically different and employ simpler methods to a production line IC fab because of the reprap economies.
  • An automated chemical factory that can mix and distill multiple components, while controlling temperature and pressure.
  • Spectrum analyser (Infra-red?) for analysis of chemical compositions and testing purity etc.

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  • Elaborate chocolate novelties
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  • A DVD player or some other demo item that everyday people understand that seems to have perceived value.
  • A lawn-mower bot
  • A vacuum bot

-- VikOlliver - 08 Feb 2006

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  • Elaborate chocolate novelties

-- VikOlliver - 08 Feb 2006

 <<O>>  Difference Topic WhatWouldYouMake (r1.1 - 08 Feb 2006 - VikOlliver)
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So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?

Utilitarian Items

  • A shotglass with RepRap written on it.

Power Generation

  • A small windmill
  • A small waterwheel

Goods For The Needy

  • A water purifier
  • Hydroponics components
  • Framework for solar reflector
  • Drug manufacturing and purification systems

Geek Toys

  • A Wi-Fi VoIP? phone
  • A custom keyboard for gaming
  • A Nerf(TM) gun
  • Collapsing dodecahaedron
  • Model of Tux the penguin

RepRap Adjuncts

  • 3D Scanner
  • Recycler
  • Plastics factory

Advanced Tools

  • Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)

Unsorted

No idea where to put it? Put it here and we'll sort it out later.

-- VikOlliver - 08 Feb 2006

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