RelatedSites
-- Main.AdrianBowyer - 25 Feb 2006
Some universal constructor, rapid prototyping, or otherwise relevant sites on the web
- Moshe Sipper's Artificial Self-replication page.
- The Worldwide Rapid Prototyping Directory.
- fabbers.com - Digital Fabrication Portal.
- Matt Moses' Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines pages.
- A Universal Constructor made from cellular automata by Renato Nobili and Umberto Pesavento.
- Ralph Merkle's work on Self replicating systems and low cost manufacturing.
- NASA and the Universal Constructor: Advanced Automation for Space Missions edited by Robert Freitas and William Gilbreath.
- Brock Hinzmann's paper: The Personal Factory.
- Josh Storrs Hall's systems-level analysis of self-replicating systems.
- The Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines pages and book by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle.
- The Norwegian Metal Printing Process project.
- The Cornell self-reproducing robot.
- Simon McAuliffe's Repstrap project: booting RepRap without an initial RP machine.
- Turbosquid: a big library of 3D designs for download, some free, some for money.
- The MIT Fab Lab project.
- Making a hot air, surface-mount soldering iron from a desoldering tool.
- Making negative resistance simply - a possible way for RepRap to make electronics.
- How to drive inkjet printheads
Building/Converting your own CNC machine.
- A busy webforum and discussion site for CNC machine builders.
- EMC - Use an old PC to control your CNC machine, with this free, robust Linux-based CNC machine controller software.
- The CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO mailing list - helful folk who love to discuss these matters.
- How to build your own CNC mnachine (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3).