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http://www.daniweb.com

A 3D printer has been prototyped which can create real copies of its own component parts, a self-replicating machine. The people behind it have kept costs down to less than a thousand bucks and are developing it under a GNU public license. They say you will be able to get the machine to copy itself and then give away the copies for free.

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lozz

13 years 49 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago

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Can't be serious!

Nice story, might even be true.

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13 years 48 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago

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Sure you CAN give copies away, but they'll cost you $500-1000

Sure, you have the option of giving away a copy of the device, but from what i've read it costs $500-1000 in materials, which means you're not giving anything away "for free" because you have a significant per-unit cost.

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