Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
I wrote a science fiction short several years ago that had this technology. This was how they colonized Mars. In my story they used the soil and an imaginary type of glue for raw material.
You,could probably build such a house in an American city for about $50,000 or so.
i got a brand new pair of roller skates
I looked into something called grancrete, a similar spray on technology idea. Big fly in the ointment is the stuff would seize up the spray equipment and also had cracking problems.
Point is, healthy dose of skepticism should always be allocated to great new ideas.
“nearly 1 billion people in the world don’t have access to adequate shelter, a situation that breeds poverty, disease, illiteracy, crime and overpopulation.”
Really? Criminals nowadays have free housing yet they still somehow kill people and could barely read (see rachel jenteal)
Just a step to when they can grow houses and things today that need assembling. I’m sure there is much in science fiction about it.
Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
people been using printed house for a long time...they’re called “cardboard boxes”
This 3D printing is really gathering speed. What if this leads to the replicators in the Star Trek universe?
What if we “replicate” conservatives and TEA Party activists?
So how come my 2-D printer is still so lousy? It goes through my ink cartridges at lightening speed, jams my paper, drools ink blots on paper media, and works slower than the foursome ahead of me.
Anybody can throw up a lean-to in no time flat.
It’s the finish work that takes time.
Interesting. But I don’t see how having a pulp mill, a paper plant, a 3-D printer manufacturing facility, an electrical power grid, and all the rest of it is going to be cheaper or more efficient than a chain saw, a portable saw mill, a hammer, nails, a screwdriver, screws, and so forth.
Can they print us a new president?
“Khoshnevis said the giant 3D printers his team is developing can build a 2,500-square-foot house in as little as 20 hours.”
Very interesting, but I don’t buy the 20 hour claim. Just setting up the machinery and taking it down will take more than 20 hours. (maybe they’re not including that in their time estimate).
-— The Contour Crafting 3D printers could even do the electrical work, plumbing, tiling, finishing work and painting. -—
Wuhuuut?!?!
Really? I thnk the White House . gov is used as a shelter breeding stupidity and illiteracy. Not only is Obama stupid, he grows stupider yet.
I like 3D printing, but if your goal is **cheap** housing, nothing is cheaper to build than a hole. Mines. Caves.
An automated digging plus walls and roof support machine would carve out new homes for the homeless at a much lower price than a concrete 3D printer.
Dirt Cheap*
*that’s a joke right there, son...
That’s gotta take alot of glu sticks ...
Wish I could find the video from a year or two ago showing a working model printing a full size house. Have any of you seen that?