Self Replicating 3D Printer自我複製的3D打印機

June 10, 2008 08年六月一十零號

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self-replicating-3d-printer Self Replicating 3D Printer 3D Printers are fascinating devices.三維打印機是迷人的設備。 The thought of being able to re print your mobile phone, should it break, is great!想到能夠重新打印您的手機，如果它打破，太棒了！ 3D printers basically use a wire frame computer model and then print it out as an actual plastic object. 3D打印機基本上使用線框計算機模型，然後打印出來作為一個實際的塑料物件。 There are tons of other uses for 3D printers such as printing shoes, chair legs, car parts to name a few.有噸的其他用途的3D打印機如印刷鞋子，椅子腿，汽車零部件等等。 Although they are unable to print metal and circuits just yet, no doubt it will happen soon.雖然它們無法打印金屬和電路剛剛但是，毫無疑問，它將很快發生。

Over the last few years a competition has been running to see who can make a printer replicate it’s self.在過去幾年的競爭已經運行，看看誰能夠打印機複製它的自我。 The project is called RepRap (Replicating Rapid-Prototyper) and a team at the Cheltenham Science Festival managed to get their printer to do just that!該項目被稱為RepRap （複製快速Prototyper ）和一個團隊在切爾滕納姆科學節設法使自己的打印機做到這一點！ The printer is capable of printing all it’s plastic parts and makes them ready to be quickly assembled.該打印機能夠打印所有的塑料部件，使他們隨時可以迅速組裝。 Once the parts are printed a person can then spend a few hours putting them together.一旦部分印有一個人，然後花了幾個小時使他們在一起。

So far, RepRap can only reproduce its plastic parts, and not its metal or electronics.到目前為止， RepRap只能複製其塑料部件，而不是它的金屬或電子產品。 It takes a human a few hours to assemble the copied pieces into another printer.它需要一個人在幾個小時組裝件的複製到另一台打印機。 It’s parts cost only $600 which may seem steep compared to a laser printer, but considering that other printers cost in the region of $50000+ at the moment, the $600 is really a drop in the ocean.這部分的成本只有600美元的可能似乎陡峭相比，激光打印機，但考慮到其他打印機的成本在該地區$ 50000 +目前， 600美元實在是滄海一粟。

This really is one technology I want to follow closely as it has so much potential to become an every day product.這確實是一個技術我要密切注意，因為它有這麼多可能成為一個每天的產品。 Simple things like smashing plates and printing new ones would be easy!簡單的事情一樣砸板和印刷新的將是件容易的事！

Via:通過： InventorSpot