May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 58m
English
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“Wealth Without Money”
A machine that can make almost anything, including copies of itself.
QUIETLY AND DILIGENTLY, IN LOCATIONS all over the world, an organization is working to bring the means of production to the masses. Their motto, “Wealth without money,” implies a political motivation, though they’re not socialists, Marxists, or communists — they’re hardware hackers.
Adrian Bowyer, at Bath University in the U.K., leads the RepRap project (reprap.org) to develop a design for a very special rapid-prototyping machine. The device treads a fine line between being capable enough to produce complex ...