{"id":1136,"date":"2009-07-09T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:19:38","slug":"baby-steps-towards-the-universal-constructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Baby Steps Towards the Universal Constructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/reprap.org\/bin\/view\/Main\/RepRapOneDarwin\">RepRap<\/a> is really cool.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a plastic part fabrication machine that is capable of making 60% of the parts necessary to build a copy of itself.   The initial design &#8220;Darwin&#8221; can be build for less than 500 Euro.<\/p>\n<p>If I had loads of free time, I would totally build one of these.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reprap.org\/pub\/Main\/WebHome\/darwin-small.jpg\" width=400><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RepRap is really cool. It&#8217;s a plastic part fabrication machine that is capable of making 60% of the parts necessary to build a copy of itself. The initial design &#8220;Darwin&#8221; can be build for less than 500 Euro. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-world-at-large","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}