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what would you make with it?

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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


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

Revision r1.35 - 17 Feb 2007 - 05:50 - ZachSmith
Revision r1.36 - 19 Feb 2007 - 03:04 - ZachSmith