RepRap Darwin v1.0.6 by bre

Description

These are all the files for the RepRap Darwin v1.0.6! I'm putting them here in the hopes of getting more folks obsessed with the RepRap project!

Here is the description from the RepRap site:

Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €500). That way it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can use it to make another and give that one to a friend...

The RepRap project became widely known after a large press coverage in March 2005, though the idea goes back to a paper on the web written by Adrian Bowyer on 2 February 2004.

RepRap Version 1.0 "Darwin" can be built by anyone now - see the Make your own RepRap link there or on the left, and for ways to get the bits and pieces you need, see the Obtaining Parts link.

Instructions

Print them out with your RepRap!

The actual license is here: reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapGPLLicence

RepRap is copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 University of Bath, the RepRap researchers (see the project's People page), and other contributors.

Principal author:

Adrian Bowyer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Design
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
U.K.

e-mail - A.Bowyer@bath.ac.uk

RepRap is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either Version 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.

RepRap is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licence for more details.

For this purpose the words "software" and "library" in the GNU General Public Licence are taken to mean any and all computer programs computer files images data results documents and all other copyright information available from the RepRap project.

The copyright covers the teardrop device and the neologism "RepRap" in upper, lower, or any mix of cases in any typeface. The teardrop and "RepRap" are also covered by the GPL. Anyone can use them freely in any way they choose, but they may not be registered as trademarks or restricted in any other way.

You can read the GNU General Public Licence here. This page you are reading now introduces the licence for the entire RepRap project; that licence applies to all of it; if the links to the licence do not work, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 , or see