Adrian Bowyer


Welcome to my homepage.

I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath working in the Biomimetics Research Group on the RepRap Project and the Bioaffinity Applications Laboratory.

My curriculum vitae


I first created this page in 1992, though it has been updated since. It is now a significant fraction of my own age, so I have decided to keep the retro appearance of hand-edited HTML...  


Research


Biology in engineering and RepRap - Self-replicating Machines
 

The Bioaffinity Applications Laboratory - Smart Materials
 

PowerMaze - a novel electrical power distribution system
 

Geometric Modelling and the Svlis Geometric Modeller.
 

Publications



 

Teaching

The Final-year Geometric Modelling course

Final-year Biomimetics




 
 

Other stuff


The most important site on the web... Send them a donation from here.


Andrew Bulhak's Automatic Postmodern Journal Paper Generator - cut-and-paste, insert your name, then submit to the academic journal of your choice.

The World's Strangest Rock (2Mb)

Formulae for Prime Numbers

Correspondence and arguments in the public prints

Joke


A robot-rendered Giaconda:

robot painted picture

This picture was painted by an IBM SCARA robot with a hogs-hair brush in its end-effector and a row of jam-jars full of paint next to it.  The software (which worked automatically using a digital photograph) was written by two of  my students and me.  The smile is their idea of a jest...



 

Getting in touch

Dr Adrian Bowyer                     email: A.Bowyer@bath.ac.uk
Mechanical Engineering Department      fax: +44 1225 826928
Faculty of Engineering & Design      phone: +44 1225 385453
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
UK


If you want to get in touch confidentially email me and I'll send you my GPG public key.

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