“Hackerspace Ffm” is a platform for creative engineers. Hackerspace Ffm provides room and space in Frankfurt, where one can meet and discuss and work together on projects.
Their association is open to everyone. Guests are always welcome to join their meetings. One of the periodic meetings is dedicated to the open source printer project RepRap. NODE invited Hackerspace Ffm to introduce the RepRap Project to the NODE participants.
RepRap is humanity’s first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.
RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself – a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials. It also means that – if you’ve got a RepRap – you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend …
RepRap is about making self-replicating machines, and making them freely available for the benefit of everyone. We are using 3D printing to do this, but if you have other technologies that can copy themselves and that can be made freely available to all, then this is the place for you too.
Reprap.org is a community project, which means you are welcome to edit most pages on this site, or better yet, create new pages of your own. The community portal and New Development pages have more information on how to get involved.
RepRap was the first of the low-cost 3D printers, and the RepRap Project started the open-source 3D printer revolution. It has become the most widely-used 3D printer among the global members of the Maker Community.
