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The Law & The Prophets/Profits Rhys Jones, Adrian Bowyer & Erik de Bruijn
RepRap The Replicating Rapid Prototyper
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Evolution
Future Development ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Future Development ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Multi-Materials ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
I Am The Law Personal Manufacturing and  The Long Arm (European version...)
Relevant Laws ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Trademarks and  Passing Off ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
(Un)Registered Design ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Copyright ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],`...“ sculpture” includes a cast or model made for purposes of sculpture...'  [s.4 CDPA 1988]
Patent ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Law ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],S Bradshaw, A Bowyer and P Haufe, "The Intellectual Property Implications of Low-Cost 3D Printing", (2010) 7:1  SCRIPTed 5, http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol7-1/bradshaw.asp
Revolutionizing fabrication together!
RepRap's basic elements ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],Impact Image by Shane Willis
Impact “ Freedom to copy  software  is an important right because it is easy now – any computer can do it. “ Freedom to copy  hardware  is not as important, because copying hardware is hard to do.” –  Richard Stallman on Linux Today, 1999
It is important “ Easy, anyone can do it” 1. Any computer can copy software 2. Anyone has a computer FOR SOFTWARE:
It is important “ Easy, anyone can do it” 1. Any  fabricator  can copy hardware 2. Anyone has a fabricator FOR HARDWARE: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Is hardware hard to copy? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Community growth
Community growth ~ 10 x 2004 2010 2006 2008
Community growth ~ 10 x (log scale) 2004 2010 2006 2008 Moore's Law
Numbers ,[object Object],[object Object],* Sampled in March 2010. Low estimate High estimate Operators in sample* (SS) 386 386 Machines per operator (Mpp) 1.5 2 Machines in sample 579 772 Sampled fraction of pop. (FoP) 0.25 0.1 RepRaps in March 2316 7720 Monthly growth (M growth ) 1.122 1.122 RepRaps in August 2010 4,127 13,755 RepRaps in Jan 2011 7,353 24,509
Numbers (cont'd) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What is driving this exponential growth? What does this exponential growth drive?
10.000 amateurs? What would happen?
Toys (for all ages)
Content or innovations? Robot modules or even complete robots Micro 'factories' and complete 3D printers Personal 3D Printer
Parts for self assembling systems that can be 3D printed Content or innovations?
Open Source Fusion powered by  3D printed parts
Conclusions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
For more information ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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  1. Because I've got so much time (5 minutes), I'm going to cover all of these topics, which is not that hard at all, because it's quite a cohesive set of elements.
  2. For hardware, if the same conditions were satisfied, the four freedoms would be equally important. 0 = use 1 = study 2 = distribute 3 = improve
  3. A computer is quite a sophisticated tool and took considerable effort to develop.
  4. Natural system often exhibit a type of growth that is non-linear and very frequently exponential. If you want to understand the growth of, say, a forest you could do a longitudinal study, but then you'd have to be there right from the start. To understand growth after the fact, researchers look at the rings in the cross section that tell you how long it has been around. Similarly, we asked the RepRap community members for how long ago they had joined.
  5. To our amazement, more than half of the respondents had joined in the latest six months. And this doubling of the community is consistent over time.
  6. Comparing Mendel's Law ;) and Moore's Law is comparing apples and oranges, or 3D printers and transistors. Still, the technologies are both transformative.
  7. To a large degree, this growth rate increases the amount of people experimenting with the technology. The user-bases that improves their tools scales up, so various parameters such as cost, capabilities and quality. But in addition to powering itself and creating rapid diffusion this diffusion enables other open hardware.
  8. There will be toys, lots of toys. But what someone considers a toy varies a lot. There's a whole variety of things people loves. From dolls to robots, from erector sets to snap together circuits. Amateurs do different things with it and will experiment more.
  9. It usually is a blend of art, science or contains things that are just useful to print instead of going to the store.
  10. It usually is a blend of art, science or contains things that are just useful to print instead of going to the store.