History+of+reprap

Founded in 2005 by Dr. [|Adrian Bowyer], the RepRap printer has since been a free community printing project. In the summer of 2005, funds were obtained for this project through the University of Bath. Shortly after, in the September of 2006, the RepRap first successful prototype is run. This was called the RepRap 0.2 prototype. For the next two years, the printer was continually worked on, improved and tested, until the February of 2008 when the RepRap 1.0 “Darwin” had successfully been built. A short two months later, the first function item is printer. That item was a clamp to hold an IPod to the dash of a car. The car happened to be the Ford Fiesta. Since then on, the RepRap printer has continually been printing its own parts for “child” and “grandchild” printers.