Makers and Hackers

I've been reading a bit of Sci Fi including Makers by Cory Doctorow.
Interesting little noodle. Imagine if you made a machine that was a 3D printer eventually the printer would be able to print a copy of itself!

It would, amongst other things, need to run on some pretty amazing gloop.

Then I saw this - Sugru.
It's not (just) that I am a sucker for Irish lasses with enthusiasm and the kind of accent that would make a straight archbishop kick a hole in a stained glass window but I do like the idea of making and mending. Hacking, I believe it is now called. I hope the gloop does not frighten the horses or give wee birds the vapours and cost an arm and a rain forest to produce.
Amen.