Hello,
Your best shot would be a Fablab. Try to contact Fablab London and check
what can they arrange for you. A quick google search gave me the following
links for Fablab London and FabLabs UK:
http://fablablondon.org/
http://www.fablabsuk.co.uk/
Also, the best machines to fiddle around are the open-source models. The
patented expensive machines are very hard to move around. RepRap
<http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap>for example can be used to print other
3D-printers since it is made of plastic.
Kindly let me know if you prefer to have this discussion in one of the
links that you provided.
P.S. Given that Raspberry pi is a Wikimania partner, you should also try to
see what they can offer. Many machines use Raspberry pi or Arduino as their
motherboards.
Kind Regards,
Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This has been bounced around before, but I think it
would be pretty
excellent to have a 3D printer available for experiments during the
the pre-Wikimania hackerthon and during Wikimania.
Does anyone have contacts within the industry to pull on to see if we
can get one for a week on demonstration? It would actually be smart
marketing as many chapters are probably thinking of getting kit like
this in the next year or two, in order to support open source 3D
designs (which we have yet to crack on Wikimedia Commons). Perhaps
the food printers (I have seen videos of sugar and chocolate
sculptures being printed) might be a lot of fun?
Associated discussion at:
*
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Water_cooler#3D_printing.3F (recent)
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2009/11#3D_…
(old)
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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