Here's my handle, there's my spout,

 load me down and print me out :D

Check it out, the Foldarap can print its own handle, or a second handle - on the list - and I think its a good symbol. Not just because I can lug it around and print at someone's house, or on the train, but because home manufacturing changes the amount of lugging around that needs to be done. None of us have felt its full impact yet but the coming economy 3.0 will begin changing our lives soon - and I'm not talking about entrepeneurs taking over the advertising channels and selling us plastic schnick-schnack ticky tack.

Its interesting to think about how the homunculi are "leading the way" at the moment from the armchairs of their industry roots. Stratasys and 3Dsystems only contribution to the consumer market at the moment seems to be making sure all of us can pay wads of cash for more realistic smaller versions of ourselves and there are whole multi-million dollar companies offering only this one service. A Mini-me to me symbolises what our revolution is not.

I see an aristocratic Arabian finding a lamp and in the desert and he asks the Djinn that pops out if he can have a full colour statue to put in the garden. Where is the imagination? Sure its a logical thought but there is really so much more that a Djinn can do right?

The best thing about the Djinn, in contrast to money, is that whatever you wish for materialises before your eyes, no need to wait on delivery. Its of course debatable that there are other "best things" about a Djinn than this, like his ability to alter time and space to suit your desires, ("Hold on, gimme that same statue but make it 3 billion years ago and on Mars" but this one is up there.)

The best thing about home manufacture is that you only need to send the information around the world, not the product. 

Catastrophic climate change or just economic castration for quite a lot of shipping and trucking concerns? I think I'll take the latter, the social implications of the former being slightly more extreme. Ahem.

The parts are all designed to allow aluminium extrusions to slide in. Yeah, they call them extrusions.

All of the mechanicals are put together using the same ingenious technique, Voila:

An Allen key is the only tool you need

Fingers are enough to screw the T nut in

Slide it into the slot on the extrusion

As you tighten the T nut rotates...

and grips :D

As seen here.

Using the holes you can attach the whole thing this way.

Here's how the folding works, you just have to loosen two of those T nuts and the Z-axis will fold into the same dimension at the rest of the frame:

As you can see I've attached 3 motors already

That 98% Ethannol is just for cleaning by the way.