How to Print in Three Dimensions ; David Clensy Looks at the New Technology Being Developed in a Clevedon Industrial Estate, Which Could Be About to Take the Idea of Computer Printers to a New Dimension

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › February 12, 2010

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WHEN you first walk into the modest Clevedon office of Bits From Bytes and see the RapMan 3D copier machine at work, you can't help but think there is something a little Heath Robinson about the contraption.

The desk-top machine is encased in clear Perspex, so you can peer inside the steel framed cube and see a robotic nozzle squirting out bits of plastic on to a platform in the middle.

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How to Print in Three Dimensions ; David Clensy Looks at the New Technology Being Developed in a Clevedon Industrial Estate, Which Could Be About to Take the Idea of Computer Printers to a New Dimension

The eccentric appearance of the RapMan v3.1 may be part of its charm, but after half an hour spent in the company of its developers, you have to start taking it seriously.

After all, many of the things we take for granted today - from computers to mobile phones - started life as...

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