Enter the Fabtotum

Hello World.

Fabtotum.cc  is the home of the Fabtotum project, a 3D rapid prototyping  machine. Yup, a 3D printer.
Fabtotum is being developed by a bunch of young folks here in Milan, Italy, sharing the vision of other projects such as the Arduino board (the Arduino team is based in Turin, not far from Milan,) and the RepRap project,from Bath university’s Professor Adrian Bowyer and his team.

Fabtotum stands as “factotum”, a latin word composed of facere (to do) and totum (everything). In the common language a Factotum is someone you would ask for help in any field,usually basic tasks,including humile jobs.Fabtotum however is not a renaissance servant,It’s a low-cost,hi-tech,computer-controlled, 3-Axis machine capable of delivering a set of tools for hobbyst makers, architects,  designers or developers.
This project will be open-hardware under the Creative Commons license (we are still figuring what to adopt for our purposes),and we will embrace a distributed development model.
This is extremely important as we want to make sure that we will be able to keep improving the machine itself while a common framework is used.
Being an Open Source hardware, Fabtotum can be replicated in more than one way, can be built by you or can be purchased too.

But let’s not rush this brief intro,more informations will be posted soon on this blog.
A lot of work is being done right now,right here, and once a finished we will be able to show more than just excitement for this project.

Marco

Head Designer, Fabtotum project.