Hello, Your best shot would be a Fablab. Try to contact Fablab London and check what can they arrange for you. A quick google search gave me the following links for Fablab London and FabLabs UK:
http://fablablondon.org/ http://www.fablabsuk.co.uk/ Also, the best machines to fiddle around are the open-source models. The patented expensive machines are very hard to move around. RepRap <http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap>for example can be used to print other 3D-printers since it is made of plastic. Kindly let me know if you prefer to have this discussion in one of the links that you provided. P.S. Given that Raspberry pi is a Wikimania partner, you should also try to see what they can offer. Many machines use Raspberry pi or Arduino as their motherboards. Kind Regards, Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > This has been bounced around before, but I think it would be pretty > excellent to have a 3D printer available for experiments during the > the pre-Wikimania hackerthon and during Wikimania. > > Does anyone have contacts within the industry to pull on to see if we > can get one for a week on demonstration? It would actually be smart > marketing as many chapters are probably thinking of getting kit like > this in the next year or two, in order to support open source 3D > designs (which we have yet to crack on Wikimedia Commons). Perhaps > the food printers (I have seen videos of sugar and chocolate > sculptures being printed) might be a lot of fun? > > Associated discussion at: > * https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Water_cooler#3D_printing.3F (recent) > * > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2009/11#3D_models_in_scope.3F > (old) > > Fae > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
