Breeding RepRaps

The premise behind the RepRap project is to build a machine that can reproduce itself. While it's not quite able to accomplish that task entirely, it can produce a great many of its own parts.

 

That's exactly what's going on at the University of Washington, where they seem to have set up a "RepRap Breeding Center". So far a team of two students have produced three working RepRap Mendel units within one class term. From Open3DP:

 

In a post quarter meeting, we predict that we could fabricate about one Mendel a week with a slightly larger team of players.   We coined the concept of  our lab becoming a “Rep Rap Breeding Center”. 

 

It seems that RepRaps and in particular the Mendel version, have gone viral. What might the population of RepRaps be today? 

 

Via Open3DP