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
16 years 15 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago
Can't be serious!
Nice story, might even be true.
sgbeal
16 years 15 weeks 10 hours 52 min ago
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.