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As my occasional postings on the subject indicate, one area that fascinates me is that of fabbers , aka 3D printers . One reason is that th...

And talking of fabbers, this is cool (and open source): Adrian (left) and Vik (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional ...

This digital stuff is all very well, but how can you hack it? Well, maybe along the lines of these hackable T-shirts : C-Shirt shirts each ...

Open source hardware is nice in theory, but currently self-contradictory in practice. The key thing about open source is that it's gene...

More signs that the fabbers are marching towards us from the future - this time, building houses as they go: It involves computer-controlle...

I've written before about open fabbers - effectively 3D printers that can make anything - and how it's crucial for there to be ope...

One of the reasons I think copyright issues regarding text, images, music etc. are important is that they are a foretaste of when things wil...

I wrote about an open source fabber recently, and now here's another one, the RepRap : The difference with RepRap, which is the size of...

People whose opinion I respect think that 3D printing machines, which allow you to "print" an object in layers, just as ordinary p...

First cars , then trains , now planes. New Scientist is reporting that it is now possible to create almost an entire plane by "print...