Reprap - The replicating rapid prototyper

Robotica

Volumn 29, Issue 1 SPEC. ISSUE, 2011, Pages 177-191

  Jones, Rhys ^a   Haufe, Patrick ^b   Sells, Edward ^c   Iravani, Pejman ^a   Olliver, Vik ^d   Palmer, Chris ^d   Bowyer, Adrian ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b HOCHSCHULE BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Bits from Bytes Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d Diamond Age Solutions Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive fabrication; Biomimetics; Free software; Fused filament fabrication; Mutualism; Open source; Rapid prototyping; Self replicating machine

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE FABRICATION; FREE SOFTWARE; FUSED-FILAMENT FABRICATION; MUTUALISM; OPEN-SOURCE; SELF-REPLICATING MACHINE;

BIOMIMETICS; FABRICATION; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 79951778378     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026357471000069X     Document Type: Article

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