Re: [rp-ml] New machines could turn homes into small factories (My 2 cents..)]

From: Adrian Bowyer (A.Bowyer@bath.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 14:23:05 EET


John Walmsley wrote:

> */I agree that if a machine was building copies of itself, the
> accuracy could be a problem, but I think that most of the parts would be
> within a specified tolerance, since in theory more parts would fall
> within a bell-curve than at the ends, no? Therefore we should get mostly
> usable parts./*
> *//*
> */I suppose we should have a separate machine to do QC, huh? ;-)/*

Much more fun is to have the machine make its own re-cycler, so it can use old
broken or out-of-tol parts to make new ones...

Yours

Adrian

http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab



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