Thank you both. I'm sure I'm not alone in being very grateful to you Adrian for all you have created for us. Thank you sincerely sir.

Very interesting, thanks Tom. "My life goal, is to not have life goals." Love it!

The Mendel was actually my first machine back when it came out. I was about 12 years old and the concept of a machine producing marts for itself actually blew my mind back then. So I annoyed my parents and collected parts from scrapyards and so on. I ended up with rods that were roughly 8mm and everything more or less "precise" but it did the job! Thanks Adrian for that great project!

Amazing guy👍🏻

I want to thank Adrian Bowyer for his contribution to the existence of affordable CNC manufacturing machines. I am a retired mechanical engineer. (I don't believe anyone ever considered me a very good one.) I pick up very cheap CNC machines from those frustrated with the amount study required for this hobby. I like to make repair parts and tooling using 3D printing, laser cutting and the CNC router. The self replicating part of it seems silly but hobby CNC manufacturing is an important part of my retired life.

Tom, this is hands down the best interview of the series. I really appreciate your work and you have been a great inspiration to me. Thank you for all that you do for the community.

Well done Tom for capturing what Dr B did for us all. As mentors go, couldn't have wished for a better one!

It's fascinating to think that there could be a direct lineage from Adrian Bowyer's first reprap printer to my 3D printer!

Sometimes I appreciate YT's wild recommendations from ages ago. This one is a gem and we all owe Adrian Bowyer a big thank for going the open source route. Great video as always.

such an awesome humble dude with humor. this dude is awesome. Also, dude is a freaking genius. True Humanitarian.

Every once and a while, the nature gives us a individual, that is not only beautiful in his views and possibilities for a better world, but is equally beautiful in generosity. If anyone deserves to be Knighted! Mr Bowyer does! I got into 3D printing back when, the only reason this was possible was because of Mr Bowyer, Thank you Mr Bowery Thank you, Nice job Tom!

A pure Gentleman...... the world needs more people with an understanding beyond profit ! Thanks Tom to give us the chance to see this.

I visited Adrian at Bath University when I was 13 and remember it to this day - truly brilliant.

Wow! This is probably one of the best 3D videos I've seen in a long time. Thank you to both Tom and Adrian for this video. It is important to know where 3D printing came from and recognize one of the founders of this wonderful hobby.

I tip my hat to you, Mr. Bowyer.

Great video Tom, and what a legend Adrian is! So humble for someone who is responsible for so much change in the additive manufacturing industry. :)

Thank you Mr Adrian Bowyer! Your energy has been invaluable to me.

I remembered my Huxley. It was my first 3d printer that I owned and I learned a ton about how the process works and I'm a lot more mechanically inclined now because of it. Thanks to Dr Bowyer and you Tom for helping me along the way!

Tom. Thank you for letting the man speak. He is a joy to listen to and most KZfaqrs wouldn't have just given him the platform like you did. Any plans on extending this to a more extensive documentary? You'd probably have a good basis from the footage in this series.

What a hero

One of the most informative videos I’ve seen in quite a while. Thank you both for taking the time to make this, and Thank you Adrian giving the 3D world the means to do this.

Nice video...thanks for going lite on the music in the background, it's nice to just hear the speaker!

Thomas, looks like you have reached the highest point of your life - interviewed Adrian. Now what will beat that!

Just getting into the vid and this guy is really cool. Thanks so much for your contributions to the world. Reprap was my first taste of 3d printing!

Great story of a living legend. Glad you documented a small part of it. Thanks for sharing. : )

A truly fascinating interview. Thank you, Tom, for doing the interview and thank you, Adrian, for sharing this part of your life which has become part of our lives.

What an excellent fellow. Inspiring and a reminder that I have so much to learn! That first RepRap printer might be in a museum someday.

This one should be re-feautured for the 3d Printing Newbies like me! Took like 4 Months of printing to stumble over this great Interview!

Congrats Thomas for that video. Brilliant talk.

Mr Boweyer is from what I can tell one of the good thinking people, as he seen what happens when things are done and leave people out. We will have a much better future for all people if we do not exclude most people. As the inequality is because of the desire of a few wanting to completely control their creation. I see when people are not locked into things people get what they want, and more can easily profit from it.

Thank you Adrian and thank you Thomas for recording this, excellence from you both👏👏🤓🤗

What a great idea to honor the man who started it all with an interview! Great video Thomas!! We owe a lot to this man!

Thank you Sir Bowyer's and Thank you Sir. Tom for everything you do, and this great interview.

Nice interview - Thank you! I am not negating Adrian Bowyer's contribution by any means. RepRap project is an amazing contribution. Self replication paradigm too. I am too captivated by these ideas. To be fair though, one other backbone of current 3D printing re-visitation was caused by expiration of few key industry patents.

Tolles Interview. Eine echte Ikone der Bewegung vor der Kamera zu haben ist ein Beweis für deine Kompetenz. Ganz großes Kino! Weiter --> SO!

Thanks for the video on the Man and his thoughts behind the tech. As a semi retired E Eng who has spent 15 years of their life selling kites and toys then gone to peddling coffee and now playing with CNC and Printing I can confirm not having set life goals is great. Growing old in mandatory growing up is not :)

This was really great to watch. Especially the latter part, which isn't as information dense but more about Adrian's attitude towards life. Adrian has been and still is very inspirational to me!

Great video with great guy. Thanks for making it!

Very interesting. Love the way the interview was edited also. Well done.

This man is a true legend. I'm working on building a RepRap style 3D printer right now actually.

Thank you for your great contribution to humanity, thank you Andrian.

What a fantastic history lesson! Thanks Tom.

"MakerBot went thier own direction" I genuinely LOL at that, yes Adrian, that's one way to put it.

That's a truly remarkable man. So brilliant and such a good soul.

This is perfect! I love history like this. Thanks so much both of you!!

I’m still moved by how down to earth Mr. Bowyer is.

Thank you Thomas for making this video.

One of the father's of modern 3d printing. Very awesome video thanks.

Tom, I love this video and am looking forward to your documentary. Well done.

I have 4 Prusa Mk3's and I was able to start my own business! After I made my first few prototypes, the machines paid for themselves. Being able to iterate so quickly and at such a low cost is amazing. It wouldn't have been possible for me get my product idea to market otherwise. Thank you Adrian! I make medical equipment with ABS.

The man The legend! GrandadRap, will hopefully be back into it over Christmas

Once slicing software existed, the proliferation of 3d printers was inevitable. A million thanks to this man for working toward what we have today

Thank you so much for this video, this man is a legend!

Amazing man 👍 And the father of the hobby i'm really passionated about. We all need to really thank him for his open minded decissions, back then

Great video about a great person. Thanks.

Very interesting interview. Always love what you Thomas, thanks for making the Road Trip series. 😁

Great interview, Thomas. I respect that you get out of the way and let the subjects speak, but don't feel that you have to! Interaction is great too.

How nice it was ! To listen this person ❤️

The decision to open source the Reprap project and it's goal to self-replicate is really what made it such a huge success -- if he would have patented it, it either would have not been very popular -- or held back the maker generation another 30 years... (and his open-source "just run with it" leadership style is a proven strategy for crowd sourcing... just look at the Pirate Party all across Europe) -- brilliant decisions all around -- anyway, this guy is such a badass. I'm so glad you interviewed him, Tom. 👌 On a side rant, I firmly believe that (semi-autonomous) self-replicating robots is something could save the human race from "game over" (i.e. it would make colonizing other planets, possible, with today's technology. -- The earth's resources aren't going to last forever, and shipping the amount of pre-built stuff to another planet to enable colonization [$27K/lb], and then the amount of labour that would have to go into assembling all of it, is a "filter" of sorts -- self-replicating robots that can fabricate things out of the natural resources already there are one way to "hack" that "filter" -- we're a long ways away from that engineering-wise though / we have most of the technology, it just needs to be engineered now).

The Father of my printer. The RepRapPro Ormerod 1

The world owes so much to this gentleman!!!!!! And especially those copycats in the Far East...

Thanks, Adrian. I remember when you first released the project, and tonight I'm sitting pulling a 15 hour print off the bed whilst watching your interview.

Best episode of road trip, nice 😊👍

OPEN SOURCE!! Salute to Sir Adrian Bowyer

Thanks for that video also thanks a lot to Adrian Bowyer he's a smart person.

2 top Printer Guys ! Salute to you Tom and Adrian

Loved this, thank you!

Probably one of your best videos.

he could be one of the most important people who has ever been born right now also Adrian Bowyer unknowing saving the world by being the one who kickstarting the 3d printing community

How the Hell do you get 19 dislikes for such a good interview with such a fascinating man!?!If you hadn't made this(BTW,I got here by Joel's mention of it,lol)I never would have heard of him. you get a Smiley Face for the day!

Great video sir. Well done.

What an amazing video! Awesome content!

You are the man, I wish I had teachers of your calibre when I was at School some 30 odd years ago, you make thing interesting

Henry Maudslay - Invented the metal lathe. The first machine that could make parts for itself, or another machine.

Tom thank you, Very enlightening video.

Great video. Had no idea ho was behind all this. Big thanks you

excellent well done Tom

Some golden nuggets of Life wisdom there.

I watched that while my Huxley was printing away next to me. Well done Adrian.

amazing, thank you!

Awesome Interview 👍

Lovely and utterly adorable. Well done.

Lovely chap

Its nice to know how and who started this craze 👍👍👍

I had wondered how it all started and now I know.

RSVP "Q" from James Bond.

Thank you. Interesting.

Amazing! I didn't even know his name! besides, I'm obviously 2 years late to the party... Is there any progress on this "longer version" that you teasered? I would love it!

I would be able to keep listening this beautifull mind for hours, it's just awesome!

Terbaik!Terima kasih Adrian Bowyer.Because of you i have a 3D printer at home now :)

This absolute king

great Man, nice Video , thx

love this series, you should do it again sometime :D

Rejoice for 3d printing!

Great man, I Salute you sir

"My life goal is not to have life goals." -- Adrian Bowyer. I like it, very quotable.

What a magnificent man.

Such a nice dude

Respect!

Fascinating video, very well shot and edited. Shame that KZfaq have seen fit to randomly insert chunks of pointless, distracting background music ('cos surely it must be KZfaq - why would Tom think that putting music behind someone who's *talking* was any kind of a good idea? LOL!). What is it with KZfaq videos? You don't see (or rather hear) this annoying trend with interviews in respected mainstream media... Great video nonetheless - did you actually film the interview, Tom, cos I was surprised there were no shots of you :(