Current Status
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Cut a 1 cm, 6-toothed involute profile sprocket gear.
Next Step
Cut spools for the electromagnets for the self-built linear stepper motor.
...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.
that was then...
this is now...
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.