OPEN SOURCE SELF-REPLICATOR
This plasma cutter promises tool inter-changeability, and synergy with its RepRap cousin.
IN THE THICK OF IT: Lawrence Kincheloe and Marcin Jakubowski pose inside the RepTab cutting table.
Photograph by Marcin Jakubowski
This is not just an ordinary CNC, plasma-cutting monster of a machine. It can copy itself, too. And on top of being inherently self-replicating, the project is completely open source. Meet Open Source Ecology’s (OSE) newest badass tool: RepTab.
Based on the much-praised RepRap project, RepTab is an open source CNC plasma cutter. It boasts a 4-foot by 8-foot work area, and can cut anything ...
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