From Biohack

Just start with base functionality (hextatic/reprap) and then just keeping adding?

2008-03-13: I am having some difficulties envisioning a completed self-replcating system. Self-assembly is generally not the problem: we can do locomotion and we can do arms and manipulators that can move objects on the same scale relative to the original as a reference for itself and so on. But the self-replication aspect, making all of the components, seem to rely on hoping that all of the fabricators can contribute to making the exact same fabricators. What would this look like, when visualized? A giant succession of arms and manipulators, conveyer belts and other things to allow the intake of materials and different hacky ways of moving around the materials just to form the same components in the end? -- Kanzure 17:44, 13 March 2008 (CDT)