Giant 3-D Printer to Make An Entire House in 20 Hours
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[QUOTE]3-D printers can make airplanes and their parts, food and more — why not entire buildings? A professor at the University of Southern California aims to print out whole houses, using layers of concrete and adding plumbing, electrical wiring and other guts as it moves upward.
Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis at USC created a layered fabrication method he calls Contour Crafting, which he says can be used to build a single house or “a colony of houses.” It could be used with concrete or adobe, he says. Khoshnevis has been developing the system for several years and hosted a presentation about it at a recent TEDx event.
It would use a movable gantry taller than the house you want to build. Concrete pours out and is set down layer by layer, like a typical 3-D printer would sinter plastic together. It could be ideal for emergency housing, commercial or low-income structures, but it could also be used to print out customized luxury homes, according to Khoshnevis. Or, he adds, it might be ideal for the moon or Mars. “Contour Crafting technology has the potential to build safe, reliable, and affordable lunar and Martian structures, habitats, laboratories, and other facilities before the arrival of human beings,” his website reads.
Khoshnevis is hardly the only 3-D printing expert advocating this — Enrico Dini, the Italian inventor of the D-Shape 3-D printer, wants to 3-D print moon buildings out of lunar regolith.
On Earth, the automated system could prevent delays, injuries and other labor issues related to human workers. With this system, maybe a 3-D printer could beat the Chinese attempt to construct the world’s tallest building in three months.
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Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-08/researcher-aims-print-3-d-print-entire-houses-out-concrete-20-hours[/url]
The future came out of nowhere
You wouldn't download a house
I wonder what it would cost to rent one of these one day.
Now we put it on Mars.
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I really get annoyed when people think we're living through boring post-world war times.
[QUOTE=l l;37175472]I for one would not ride in an airplane with parts made from a 3-D printer, I doubt it would even be declared safe to ride and pilot anyway though.[/QUOTE]
Are 3D printers not precision tools? A device failure on an object created in a 3D printer would be the fault of the designer and supervisor, not the printer.
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house
bungalow
blue
[QUOTE=Rammaster;37175392]You wouldn't download a house[/QUOTE]
I bought that house on ebay officer, I swear
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I'd much rather have a hand-built house. If I had the time and skills I'd like to build my own house one day.
Much of the notion of standardisation doesn't sit well with me
[QUOTE=l l;37175472]I for one would not ride in an airplane with parts made from a 3-D printer, I doubt it would even be declared safe to ride and pilot anyway though.[/QUOTE]
you would if it had been tested by engineers and met the same safety standards as other planes
[QUOTE=l l;37175472]I for one would not ride in an airplane with parts made from a 3-D printer, I doubt it would even be declared safe to ride and pilot anyway though.[/QUOTE]
if the seats were made with a 3D printer would you still ride it?
Fuck storage containers I want this now
[QUOTE=Crash15;37175994]if the seats were made with a 3D printer would you still ride it?[/QUOTE]
yeah
I'm still have a hard time believing in 3D printers. They sounds too damn futuristic for our time.
Why all the dumbs? I meant that as a compliment.
[QUOTE=l l;37175472]I for one would not ride in an airplane with parts made from a 3-D printer, I doubt it would even be declared safe to ride and pilot anyway though.[/QUOTE]
funny thing is
they already do
and they dont need to announce it. guess what, you probably flew in one already
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;37176065]funny thing is
they already do
and they dont need to announce it. guess what, you probably flew in one already[/QUOTE]
as long as it passes safety inspections I really don't care, engine parts worry me a bit though
I fucking love science.
[QUOTE=Rammaster;37175392]You wouldn't download a house[/QUOTE]
And soon: you wouldn't download a car
Whenever I hear about 3D Printers, the first think I think of them making is another 3D Printer. "Huge 3D Printer that makes houses? Hmmm... I bet it makes really big 3D Printers too!"
we've had this technology for a while now (10 ish years). it's great to see the media is finally realizing it
[QUOTE=l l;37176107]as long as it passes safety inspections I really don't care, engine parts worry me a bit though[/QUOTE]
Most of the time when they talk about "printing" cars and stuff, they actually mean printing body or other parts made out of softer materials such as different kind of plastic.
[QUOTE=Zee Captain;37176053]I'm still have a hard time believing in 3D printers. They sounds too damn futuristic for our time.[/QUOTE]
But the concept is genuinely simple...
We've been machining in 3 dimensions with computers since the 70s. By hand since the 1800s probably. A 3D printer is like a modified version of this.
[video=youtube;8I3diD1lpho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3diD1lpho[/video]
[QUOTE=Rammaster;37175392]You wouldn't download a house[/QUOTE]
Soon this is going to become "You wouldn't download a spacecraft."
suddenly the price of houses drops like a rock, spitting out houses like pizzas
[QUOTE=No_Excuses;37176299]But the concept is genuinely simple...
We've been machining in 3 dimensions with computers since the 70s. By hand since the 1800s probably. A 3D printer is like a modified version of this.
[video=youtube;8I3diD1lpho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3diD1lpho[/video][/QUOTE]
We've been meticulously chiseling away at large chunks of substance to get desired results until now. Now we're creating, shaping as we go, placing raw materials where we want them instead of breaking them down to where we want them. Different.
I find this a little bit skeptical albeit cool.
I wonder how this printer would be able to install fiber glass insulation and a plumbing system among other things.
[QUOTE=cccritical;37176512]We've been meticulously chiseling away at large chunks of substance to get desired results until now. Now we're creating, shaping as we go, placing raw materials where we want them instead of breaking them down to where we want them. Different.[/QUOTE]
But the method is nearly identical. Replace the drill with some kind of substance and you end up with like a Maker Bot.
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