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Open source hardware 2009 - The definitive guide to open source
hardware projects in 2009 via MAKE Magazine by Phillip Torrone on
12/11/09

Part of The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009

3D printing - Open source hardware is now making things. Physical
things you can print out, over the last few year 2-3 projects have
really gained momentum and made some wonderful advances in low-cost
desktop 3D printing. Projects include Fab at Home, MakerBot and RepRap. A
new project was also added this year, s DIY open source construction
set for experimental personal fabrication.

Contraptor

Contraptor is a DIY open source construction set for experimental
personal fabrication, desktop manufacturing, prototyping and
bootstrapping.
Price: See site
Visit project page

Fab at Home

Fab at Home is a project dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines
that can make almost anything, right on your desktop. This website
provides everything you need to know in order to build or buy your own
simple fabber, and to use it to print three dimensional objects. The
hardware designs and software on this website are free and open-source.
Once you have your own fabber, you can also download and print various
items, try out new materials, or upload and share your own projects.
Advanced users can modify and improve the fabber itself
Price: $2,700 and up
Visit the project page

MakerBeam

MakerBeam is a project to build a toy and tool for the open source
imagination. Based on Mini-T, a new open source standard, MakerBeam
will develop a construction toy for our times: open source precision
hardware equally at home doing desktop fabrication or serving as a
drawbridged castle for action figures.
Price: See page for details
Visit the project page

MakerBot

MakerBot is an affordable, open source 3D printer. It makes almost
anything up to 4" x 4" x 6" using ABD plastic.
Price: $750 and up
Visit the project page

RepRap

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical
self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating
machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This
technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would
cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make
itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give
away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability
of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €500). That way
it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as
individuals in the developed world.
Price: Various
Visit the project page


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