Tommelise is a bootstrap 3D replicator that you can make with a very few hand tools for about $100-150. Once you've built it you can use it to make ... more or less anything, including another Tommelise.
Current Status
Monday, 16 August 2008
The z-axis positioning table for the extruder is built and is undergoing tests.
Next Step
Build the z-axis gantry.
...the only tools a dwarf needed were his axe and some means of making fire. That’d eventually get him a forge, and with that he could make simple tools, and with those he could make complex tools, and with complex tools a dwarf could make more or less anything. - The Truth, Terry Pratchett
that was then...
this is now...