Thursday, April 12, 2007

Fab@Home: 3D objects from your printer for under $2,500:

When your master's thesis consists of building soccer-playing robots, what do you do for a Ph.D.? For Evan Malone, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Cornell University, the answer is clear: you design a three-dimensional fabrication machine capable of building complete robots—power supply, electronics, body, and motors—that can walk right out of the machine when complete.

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