Thursday, April 09, 2009
RepRap hits Parliament
A few weeks ago it was the final round of the "Science Engineering and Technology for Britain" awards. I was there waving the RepRap flag, and it just so happened to be held in the British houses of parliament! I got to tell a lot of MPs about our work and reactions were as brilliant as usual. Here's my poster...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qwL56hfVXEmIL8UfmKiSWRHkFibUa3km9x0Z7GmLJMlxFhTY_Qih9k4nwoG2UCTIcMKq32UybxbwLuTuDH49orV8YBPy8jo4Q2VQ3koup3bkGLtXcvY6v2bBrVK3UKQOqzTUUQ/s400/Poster+RepRap.png)
and here's a really terrible shot of me after too long at the free bar, with an MP from north Wales.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAvxV5aVJyxFzDFRrnBGhwUPxH1tEHFIV78Dkldn85Sou-YuLye00xkpkR1m_p_ksXA2fARFlJoNGfhxA0Qjtj1ICnHcwJbTeAVKNnKoJObifp6U4mn5crykPee0w0BjrJD49UcA/s400/Sells+B.Williams+(Small).JPG)
I didn't win (obviously... did I say there was a free bar?) but it was very interesting to delve so physically into the political structure of my country. (What I saw restored a lot of my faith in our society... it may not be perfect sometimes, sometimes a long way off, but people are genuinely trying spectacularly hard to make it better – that alone seems to me to be a wonderful thing about being a human).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qwL56hfVXEmIL8UfmKiSWRHkFibUa3km9x0Z7GmLJMlxFhTY_Qih9k4nwoG2UCTIcMKq32UybxbwLuTuDH49orV8YBPy8jo4Q2VQ3koup3bkGLtXcvY6v2bBrVK3UKQOqzTUUQ/s400/Poster+RepRap.png)
and here's a really terrible shot of me after too long at the free bar, with an MP from north Wales.
I didn't win (obviously... did I say there was a free bar?) but it was very interesting to delve so physically into the political structure of my country. (What I saw restored a lot of my faith in our society... it may not be perfect sometimes, sometimes a long way off, but people are genuinely trying spectacularly hard to make it better – that alone seems to me to be a wonderful thing about being a human).