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A project to save the world...

...or at least to improve it.  

For more details see the [[http://reprap.org/][main web site]]. However, here is a brief summary: 

A universal constructor is a machine that can replicate itself and - in addition - make other industrial products.  Such a machine would have a number of interesting characteristics, such as being subject to Darwinian evolution, increasing in number exponentially, and being extremely low-cost.

A rapid prototyper is a machine that can manufacture objects directly (usually, though not necessarily, in plastic) under the control of a computer.

The RepRap project is working towards creating a universal constructor by using rapid prototyping, and then giving the results away free under the [[http://www.gnu.org][GNU General Public Licence]] to allow other investigators to work on the same idea. We are trying to prove the hypothesis: _Rapid prototyping and direct writing technologies are sufficiently versatile to allow them to be used to make a von Neumann Universal Constructor_. 

All good projects have a slogan, and the best have a slogan that reeks of hubris.  RepRap is no exception.  Our slogan is:

*_"Wealth without money..."_*

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