RepRap – the replicating rapid prototyper

@article{Jones2011RepRapT,
  title={RepRap – the replicating rapid prototyper},
  author={Rhys Jones and Patrick Haufe and Edward Sells and Pejman Iravani and Vik Olliver and Chris Palmer and Adrian Bowyer},
  journal={Robotica},
  year={2011},
  volume={29},
  pages={177 - 191}
}
SUMMARY This paper presents the results to date of the RepRap project – an ongoing project that has made and distributed freely a replicating rapid prototyper. We give the background reasoning that led to the invention of the machine, the selection of the processes that we and others have used to implement it, the designs of key parts of the machine and how these have evolved from their initial concepts and experiments, and estimates of the machine's reproductive success out in the world up to… 
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