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http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/...fabber.ws.html
Damn! The domain "fabber.com" is already taken.
Synopsis: You can build at home a machine that will build other devices. They are called 3D Printers. It is relatively cheap and you can get plans for devices that the machine will build off the Internet.
Example: I'd like a new IPod-like device for my nephew. I download the plans off the Net. Feed it into my 3D Printer. Feed it parts it needs. Parts are created and assembled. Done.
Anyway, interesting parallels between this and early homebuilt 'proto-PCs' like the Altair.
Enjoy.
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Their machine is definitely cool, and fairly practical to build, but it's basically just a crude 3d printer
It can basically make plastic parts out of a single material based on a 3d file. Definitely cool though, but we're very far off (decades probably) before something could, in a practical way build other machines/electronic devices from raw materials - this just makes a single part (like a "lego tire") and probably takes many hours just to do that
still, I wish I had one. good article
