Has anyone see this? A Man named Joshua Pearce is building an open source metal 3D Printer, which parts costs just under $1,500. Pearce is leading a team at the Michigan Technological Institution, and believes that this will see progress in it's abilities and price, similar to the open sourced plastic filament printers, the Repraps. It that';s the case, we will see substantial innovations in this area in a matter of months.

All the information you need to build this printer as well as the software needed to run it can be found for free here: http://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_metal_3-D_printer

Here is a look at the metal printed that has all open source design, and software:

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