RepRap Project

The RepRap project is a project to develop a 3D printer (RepRap, short for "replicating rapid prototyper") that can print most of its own parts. All of the designs produced by the project are released under a free software license.

The RepRap project has made four machines so far: "Darwin", released in March 2007, "Mendel", released in October 2009, "Prusa Mendel" and "Huxley" released in 2010. Developers have named each after famous biologists.

RepRap Project Media

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  All of the plastic parts for the machine on the right were produced by the machine on the left. Adrian Bowyer (left) and Vik Olliver (right) are members of the RepRap project.

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  RepRap 0.1 building an object

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  First part ever made by a RepRap to make a RepRap, fabricated by the Zaphod prototype, by Vik Olliver (2007-09-13)

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  A RepRap 10th Birthday celebration

• Adrian Bowyer talking about the RepRap Project at Poptech 2007

• A timelapse video of a robot model (logo of Make magazine) being printed using FFF on a RepRap Fisher, a delta-style printer.

• Video of RepRap printing an object