What would you make

So, if you had a RepRap, capable of extruding plastic, circuitry, and things with the consistency of icing, what would you make with it?

A water purifier
Hydroponics components
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.
Bio-diesel converter (from seed right through to bio-diesel)

3D Scanner
Recycler
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).
Organic semiconductor production factory.

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.

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.
A lawn-mower bot
A vacuum bot

-- Main.VikOlliver - 08 Feb 2006

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