Just make a RepRap ourselves. Materials typically cost ~£300-400 these days. http://www.reprap.org/wiki/RepRap
The 3D printer itself is libre hardware and is capable of manufacturing most parts of itself! On 14 June 2014 23:50, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > This has been bounced around before, but I think it would be pretty > excellent to a 3D printer available for experiments during the week of > 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 one > of 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 > > Fae > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
