Wow! I just had to write about this. There I was, mooching through the submissions on reddit‘s front page when I came across an interesting looking title: “The RepRap is the most awesome machine ever built. We can only guess how these machines will change society when they will be ready.” I had a look at the site and sure enough the concept of a 3D printer which could replicate plastic objects in a similar fashion as a paper printer can do with documents today sounded pretty darn cool. I was watching the introductory video when lo-and-behold I see a familiar face. Ed Sells is a guy who went to the same school as me, a few years above my year and he’s an engineer on the project (which is GNU open source I might add). It’s really cool to see a guy I knew contributing towards something which may just advance our society in an as-yet unimaginable fashion.

Click the “Play” image to watch the video, or you can check out the full site, or even the reddit submission.