I really like this project :D

That is so cool! Nice work

RepRap make happy!

What a great innovation! Knowledge should be free, you're on the right path. Keep the good work! Hope the community will get larger to embrace this.

It's really sad to watch a good idea in its infancy stage before it is taken over. Printers were a good idea, then the ink became almost as expensive as gold is by weight. Currently, an author will have to pay almost $20 U.S. worth of ink to print one copy of a decent length manuscript. Nothing to brag about as a technological accomplishment.

The same will eventually happen with the price of "Plastic" and any other materials used with the RepRap and future machines. The rich will always get richer.

Seriously Sad,
The exiled Edward Francis Rose

It's open source and free, so it can't be taken over. Companies can make it and sell it if they want (and some already do), but they can't stop anyone else (including private individuals) from making it for themselves. And the plastic it uses is polylactic acid, which is made from starch. So anyone who can grow a few plants can have the plastic for free...

Very good video, very well explained

I really hope 3D printers will be produced using open source. If the big commercial companies get in on this market, it's going t be severely limited. :/

Machines building more machines.....like this :P

This is so incredible...

Absolutely amazing I plan on creating one ASAP. Thank You.

fantastique ! le futur sera "open source" + "diy"

I think this is a nice idea but I think the comparison to nature is a little far fetched...the truth about this product is the plastic on which the entire product is based has to come from somewhere and cannot be produced by the reprap, this is the catch. Unlike nature which can self perpetuate and is purely symbiotic this can never be as you will always have to buy the base material of plastic. So in a way you are just buying a less refined product, still refined but less and finishing it yourself. The fact that you can make additional printers is cool though but not without challenges I can imagine! (just like the bees)

Some living organisms are autotrophic, but by no means all. People, for example, are not...

Wait just few years. I'll give you all the money i'll make with my first blockbuster.