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Open Source 3-D Printer

There are now several open source 3-D printers on the market for example:

  1. MakerBot Industries -- Although they have CupCake CNC kits for sale -- all the plans are available - it says "I am an open, hackable robot for making nearly anything". See a video from CES 2010 on the CupCake here
  2. RepRap[1]. See this article about the basic idea. Again you can buy a setup for 795 pounds here but also build it yourself. The really interesting thing about this model is the machines can produce themselves - at least to some degree. For some examples of what it can do see this.
  3. The original Fab@Home
  4. See the 3-D printing article at the P2P Foundation

There are a lot of interesting possibilities for the use of such 3-D printers to create appropriate technologies for sustainable development. This is the beginning.

Potential Applications of 3-D Printing to Sustainable Development

  1. hand held corn sheller
  2. customized prosthetics
  3. solar water pasteurization manifolds, absorbers
  4. valves
  5. water wheels

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