RUG/Pennsylvania/State College/RepRap Media Timeline
This page is a summary of 3D printing stories in press/tv/etc with a focus on RepRap in particular, but with some inclusion of other similar technologies.
Rules: Add entries by year, including the date, a relevant link, what the original source is (especially if you have a youtube video from some TV show), and a note of who added that example (you, as in your name on this wiki).
2005
March 23rd; The RepRap blog started [[1]] -JLaz
June 2nd; Reprap project discussed in "The Machine that can copy anything" by Simon Hooper on CNN.com [[2]] -DSJ
2006
February; 'Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs' a TED talk about a (much higher cost) mobile fabrication laboratory, and enabling consumers to produce products for a "market of one". [3] -joshj
2007
2008
June 4; The Telegraph releases a science article about self-replicating robots leading into the RepRap. Parts of the article discuss the possible implications and advantages of a low cost 3D printer that can replicate its own parts and evolve. [[4]]
2009
2010
April 30; 'The disruptive future of printing' an article by Bill Thompson of the BBC about RepRap and its future. [5] -joshj
November 10; 'It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing...' a whitepaper by Michael Weinberg of Public Knowledge discussing the legal implications of widespread 3D printing. [6] -joshj
December 20th; 3d printing: the state of the art. [7] - MReng
December 31st; 11 3d printing predictions for the year 2011. [8] - MReng
2011
January 12; 'The Wow Factor of 3-D Printing,' an article in the New York Times about consumer 3-D printers. It mentions Reprap, MakerBot, and Bits From Bytes. [9] -rbdschur
January 19th; 3d printing now in Titanium! [10] - MReng
April; Copyright questions as 3d printing comes of age. [11] - MReng
June 8th; Bre Pettis, founder of Makerbot Industries, makes a guest appearance on the Colbert Report discussing the relevance of 3D printing in modern society [[12]] - ktrippsu
August 16th; How 3d printing will revolutionze everything it touches [13]- MReng
August 23rd; Makerbot announces that they are accepting $10 million in startup money[[14]] -DSJ
Fall 2011; Open Hybrid Mendel Design is tested at Penn State University Park Campus. Not really a media link, but I've put this here so you can think about this. -DSJ
September 16; BBC News article on a new application of 3D printing 'Artificial Blood Vessels Created on a 3D Printer' [[15]] - JLaz
September 20; Article on the Make blog about a working AR-15 magazine on thingiverse. [16] -joshj
September 20; 3d printer for kids in the works! [17] -MReng
October 3rd; Albensi Labs use 3D printing for dental restoration making the turnaround time drop from 7 days to 2 days. [18] -MReng