The RepRap Morgan is an

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fused deposition modeling Fused filament fabrication (FFF), also known as fused deposition modeling (with the trademarked acronym FDM), or called ''filament freeform fabrication'', is a 3D printing process that uses a continuous filament of a thermoplastic material. Filam ...

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. The Morgan is part of the

RepRap project The RepRap project started in England in 2005 as a University of Bath initiative to develop a low-cost 3D printer that can print most of its own components, but it is now made up of hundreds of collaborators worldwide. RepRap is short for rep''lic ...

and has an unusual

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arm design. The first Morgan printer was designed by Quentin Harley, a

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

n engineer (working for

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at the time) at the House4Hack Makerspace in

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. The

arm design was developed due to the lack of access to components of existing 3D printer designs in South Africa and their relatively high cost. In 2013 the Morgan won the HumanityPlus Uplift Personal Manufacturing Prize and third place in the Gauteng Accelerator Program. The Morgan name comes from the RepRap convention of naming printers after famous deceased biologists. The Morgan printers was named after

Thomas Hunt Morgan Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role tha ...

. He worked on the genome of the common fruitfly with his wife, Lilian Vaughan Morgan. Their names were used in the development codenames for the first two generations of Morgan 3D Printers. Morgan printers are now manufactured full-time by the inventor in a small workshop factory in the House4Hack makerspace.

Versions

There are four versions of the RepRap Morgan, the Morgan v1 (codenamed Thomas), Morgan Pro, Morgan Mega and Morgan Pro 2 (codenamed Lilian). File:RepRap Morgan v1.jpg, RepRap Morgan v1 File:RepRap Morgan Pro.png, RepRap Morgan Pro File:Morgan Mega.jpg, RepRap Morgan Mega File:RepRap Morgan Pro 2.jpg, RepRap Morgan Pro 2

External links

Official website

RepRap Morgan page on the RepRap.org

RepRap Morgan files on Github

References

{{reflist Open hardware electronic devices 3D printers RepRap project