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Eric Hunting		 Socket & Rod Framing Systems? View All
I am currently researching a sourcebook for T-slot profile building, covering its uses from the lab to the factory to architecture and the home DIY enthusiast. As part of its history section I plan to discuss the assortment of modular building systems that have led up to T-slot and which are contemporary to it. However, I've had difficulty finding information about one particular system which has seen its most recent notable use with the RepRap open source fabber project. This small-scale building system is based on rods secured by small set-screw clamp socket blocks serving as joints or nodes as well as component mounts. It may have derived from the rod and clamp stands often used in chemistry lab settings, or possibly from the pipe-fitting building systems like Kee-Klamp, or perhaps even from more contemporary optical bench components. The RepRap uses this with clamp/socket blocks that are fabricated by the machine itself -part of its objective of becoming self-replicating at some po
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 The RepRap Project is an initiative aimed at creating a largely self-replicating machine which can be used for rapid prototyping and manufacturing. A rapid prototyper is a 3D printer that is able to fabricate three dimensional artifacts from a computer-based model. Project authors describe 'self-replication', understood as the ability to reproduce the components necessary to build another version of itself, as one of the goals for the project.

Due to the potential self-replicating ability of the machine, authors envision the possibility to cheaply distribute RepRap units to people and communities, enabling them to create (or download from the internet) complex products and artifacts without the need for expensive industrial infrastructure. They further speculate that the RepRap will eventually demonstrate evolution in this process as well as being able to increase in number exponentially. This, in theory, would give RepRap the potential to become a powerful disruptive technology, si

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