[-empyre-] creating environmental conditions / creating teleological perspectives

[Adrian Bowyer]

Adrian Freed wrote:

> The reprap vision is still just that. So little of the machine is made by itself
> it is more analogous ecologically to the way koala bear cubs bootstrap: by eating their mothers pap.

Not counting fasteners (which could easily be replaced by parts made 
by the machine itself; it would work fine, but be harder to take apart 
and to modify), RepRap makes 50% of its own parts.

I wouldn't call that "so little".

Best wishes

Adrian

Dr Adrian Bowyer
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab
http://reprap.org