Swindon & District Amateur Radio Club

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Talk: Manufacturing For The Masses, by Dr. Adrian Bowyer

Posted: 23 Feb 2017 11:00 AM PST
http://www.sdarc.net/2017/02/23/talk...adrian-bowyer/


On Thursday, March the 9th we welcome Dr. Adrian Bowyer, the founder of
RepRap Ltd (3D Printers), to our club.

RepRap, the REPlicating RAPid Prototyper was the invention of Adrian whilst
he was a senior academic in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Bath
University. His invention was the birth of low-cost 3D printers, started
the open-source 3D printing revolution and the RepRap has been described as
the invention which will start a second industrial revolution.

Adrian started the company in 2009 and finally retired from academic life
in 2012. During his time at Bath, he invented (at the same time as David
Watson), the Algorithm for the computation of Voronoi diagrams – this
became known as the Bowyer-Watson Algorithm.

Adrian will be bringing along one of his 3D Printers to demo and will also
speak of some of his experiments on 3D printing Printed Circuit Boards.

Home construction has always been close to the heart of amateur radio and
with many radio hams still enjoying this aspect of the hobby, 3D printers
will doubtless feature more and more within the home constructors
workshops. The possibilities are endless – from making small project boxes,
knobs, bespoke parts etc. to replicating those hard to find parts for the
restoration of older equipment.

As the title suggests, Dr Adrian Bowyer has truly made ‘manufacturing for
the masses’ a reality during the last decade and this will be a
presentation not to be missed.

So please join us from 7pm on Thursday 9th March at Pine Trees to meet Dr.
Bowyer and see his presentation.