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Rep-Rap: the School Involved in designing a 3D printer
From March 8 to 12, 2010, along with Ping – Nantes-based association that fosters the cultural aspect of digital practices, L’École de design took part in making 2 open source 3D printers…
What is Reprap?
Reprap is an alternative open source project aimed at designing cheap and user-friendly 3D open source printers. The printers can then easily be replicated by shaping pieces and assembling the clone.
A workshop that left an enduring imprint
Since 2006, Nantes-based association Ping, an indefatigable discoverer, has promoted the “cultural dimension inherent in digital activities seen as tools to appropriate culture and knowledge, tools for expressing one’s mind and creativity, tools for mutualizing ideas and for cooperating.” Ping works in collaboration with several local associations gathered together for the Crealab project, a network for knowledge transfer in digital creation. Nicolas Ripault, model maker at L’École de design, took part in the first Reprap workshop, from March 8 to 12, 2010 in Nantes. Conducted by Alexandre Kolber, one of the pioneering figures of this trend in France, this successful experimentation gave life to 2 Reprap printers.
Member of an OPEN SOURCE LAB
This outstanding workshop foreshadowed the launching on May 12, 2010 of a Fablab in the Nantes area infused with the values of mutualizing and knowledge transfer that underlie the world of open source. To follow from this initiative, members of the lab must draw a line and define how to produce customized items hyperlocally. The reprap trend breathes new life into an aging industry. Products are never severed from the tools they are made with. Reprap printers will prompt product designers to veer towards new schemes, less servile and more open.
Read also:
The Reprap workshop on the website of the PING association
Check out creartivity, Stéphane Gouret’s blog
