{"id":8532,"date":"2005-06-05T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2005-06-05T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2005-06-05T14:21:29","slug":"abfab-for-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8532","title":{"rendered":"AbFab for Geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/story.reprap.jpg\">&#8220;3D printing,&#8221; &#8220;digital fabrication,&#8221; &#8220;person fabrication,&#8221; &#8220;Napster fabing:&#8221; Call it what you want, but the idea of creating a cheap and easy-to-use system for the &#8220;desktop&#8221; manufacturing of three dimensional objects, has been a hot R&#038;D area in the last few years. This technology has taken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/06\/02\/tech.reprap\/index.html\" target=\"new\">another step forward<\/a> with the recent announcement of the &#8220;Self-Replicating Rapid Prototyper,&#8221; or &#8220;RepRap,&#8221; a 3D fabricator that not only prints in plastics, but can also print electrical circuits into the structural material. <\/p>\n<p> The brainchild of Dr. Adrian Bowyer, a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in the UK, the continued development of RepRap will be made open source, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/reprap.org\/\" target=\"new\">design details available online<\/a>. Bowyer sees a world in the near future where such desktop fabs could sell for a few hundred bucks and could even have a recycling feature so that when something broke, you would just feed it back into the machine and fab a new one. Cool!<\/p>\n<p> [Thanks, Alberto!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;3D printing,&#8221; &#8220;digital fabrication,&#8221; &#8220;person fabrication,&#8221; &#8220;Napster fabing:&#8221; Call it what you want, but the idea of creating a cheap and easy-to-use system for the &#8220;desktop&#8221; manufacturing of three dimensional objects, has been a hot R&#038;D area in the last few years. This technology has taken another step forward with the recent announcement of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AbFab for Geeks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}