{"id":355,"date":"2007-04-05T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:22:54","slug":"dorkbot-nyc-april-5-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/04\/dorkbot-nyc-april-5-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorkbot NYC-  April 5, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"dorkbot_0407.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/dorkbot_0407.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" \/><br \/>\nKurt and I attended our first Dorkbot NYC get-together tonight. Having been told from trusted sources that it was in my &#8220;wheelhouse&#8221;, I was finally lured to attend when I saw the list of projects being presented. The one that caught my eye was RepRap. On their website, RepRap is described as follows:  &#8220;RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is a practical self-copying 3D printer.&#8221; My mind jumped to images of self-assembling nano-machines from Neil Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDiamond-Age-Illustrated-Primer-Spectra%2Fdp%2F0553380966%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1175747724%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=jonkeeganillu-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Diamond Age<\/a> The concept they have working is far less fantastical, but just as exciting.<br \/>\nBasically, they are attempting to make a very simple, CHEAP, open-design rapid prototyping machine (all designs and software open-source).The killer feature: the parts which it will be made of can be made using the machine itself.<br \/>\nSo if I have a working <strong>RepRap<\/strong>, and you come over, and see it working, and say you want one, I can print up all the parts of the machine for you to make your own. All you need are a few extra components that cannot currently be &#8220;printed&#8221; by the machine, some raw material (plastic, resin or metal) and you can assemble your own RepRap.<br \/>\nMy mind was spinning thinking of the possibilities.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/dorkbot.org\/dorkbotnyc\/04.april.2007\/' target = 'new'>Dorkbot NYC<\/a> meets on the first Wednesday in every month.<br \/>\n<strong>LINK: <a href='http:\/\/reprap.org' target = 'new'>http:\/\/reprap.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt and I attended our first Dorkbot NYC get-together tonight. Having been told from trusted sources that it was in my &#8220;wheelhouse&#8221;, I was finally lured to attend when I saw the list of projects being presented. The one that caught my eye was RepRap. On their website, RepRap is described as follows: &#8220;RepRap is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}