Talk:Fab@Home:Model 1 Bill of Materials

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Would anyone like to share ordered parts, as there is often a much higher minimum number than we actually need. Please let me know.

Please sign your comments here by using tilde characters like this: Evan 13:15, 14 September 2006 (EDT)

Links for Products

Spark Fun Electronics - Header board for LPC2148 [1]

Xylotex - 4 Axis Stepper Motor Driver Board [2]

Winford Engineering - DB25 Breakout Boards [3]

McMaster-Carr [4]

Digikey - Use: Web ID 10697442 Access ID 10352 [5]

Materials to Share

I've highlighted in red the items that can be shared. I will just go ahead and order these materials. Please let me know if you're interested in splitting the materials and I will find a way to get the materials to you. Thanks.

The shared materials total comes to $126, which is $63 per person.

Media:FAHModel1Parts-V8 SHARE.zip

I'm interested in sharing these parts. I live near Toronto in Canada. Zymsys

I'd be willing to share, but you didn't leave a datestamp or any contact information! You can see my user page for my email address. Please send me an email if the offer is still valid!--Jacob.bayless 05:20, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Ecological considerations

Vik Olliver from the Waitakere rainforests in New Zealand recently presented RepRap, the self-replicating Rapid Prototyping tool that he is working on with a small team, supported by the University of Bath, here in Vienna. Though they are still in the plastic stage there is considerable progress (see http://www.reprap.org/). I wrote: "And I saw that Vik is completely in line with the idea that we must avoid fossil-fuel-based plastic as soon as we possibly can. He even had some polylactic-acid granulate as the second (and better) solution with him and showed that he is already working in both parallel world." (see http://www.ourculture.info/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/FranzNahrada/Blog entry of 14th of September)

My question is: do you have similar considerations?