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Adrian Bowyer giving a talk on RepRap to Pop!Tech 2007 in Camden, Maine.

Pop!Tech is a yearly conference on technical issues of world concern and on the technical innovations that may improve the future. In 2007 Adrian was one of the invited speakers. Follow this link to watch the talk.

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<object id="BLOG_video-8a9e73ce8d3764" class="BLOG_video_class" contentid="8a9e73ce8d3764" height="266" width="320"></object>	Printing the optoswitch bracket on Darwin, in Capa.
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/toZpNpHQI7w"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/toZpNpHQI7w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>	Adrian has an MSc student, Arman Ghandizadehdezfuli, who is looking at Mendel for the future. Here's a video of the prototype extruder changer that he's designed being tested in Darwin. (The slight jerkiness is all from the cheapo webcam software; the actual movements were clean and smooth.)
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<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mKGrz9QuBWs"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mKGrz9QuBWs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>	A new extruder design with the motor and drive offset, to allow a perfectly straight run down the drive thread for brittle or stiff extrude filaments.
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<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n62mDx5v908"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n62mDx5v908" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>	Johannes Grenzfurthner interviewing Vik Olliver about the RepRap on Austrian TV's Taugshow
<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TTcvToMReRA"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TTcvToMReRA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>	The first extruded extruder, sans nozzle, slowly moving filament from one place to the other.

-- Main.AdrianBowyer - 03 Jan 2007