The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation by Jan-Peter Ferdinand Ulrich Petschow & Sascha Dickel

Author:Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Ulrich Petschow & Sascha Dickel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

2.3 RepRap and the Origins of Open Source 3D Printing

The community around RepRap 3D printers started as a project to develop an affordable and easy to use self-replicating rapid prototyping machine in 2004/2005. The initial RepRap ‘Darwin’ 3D printer was the first attempt to develop a self-replicating device that is able to print most of its own components. Since the beginning, open access to any sources of knowledge—e.g., building manuals, design blueprints, bills of material—that are required to rebuild and further develop the 3D printers represents the building block for the diffusion of the RepRap:Consequently I have decided to give the entire machine and all its design files away free under the GNU General Public License, like Linux. This ensures that no one (especially not me) has control over, and restrictions on, the technology. It is a happy coincidence that this—the morally correct thing to do—is also the only stable strategy. […] So the self-copying and evolving RepRap machine may allow the revolutionary ownership, by the proletariat, of the means of production (Bowyer 2006).

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