3D Printing with Sand and the Heat of the Sun in the Sahara Desert

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3D Printing with Sand and the Heat of the Sun in the Sahara Desert

Was pretty impressed by this video, thought I’d share it with the community :3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptUj8JRAYu8

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Yeah, that is a very good start. I’d love to see houses built like this.

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The way the capitalistic world works, I wouldn’t be surprised if they built a casino in the Sahara before they start building houses. Las Vegas style. On a less pessimistic note, I love these shelters they test-built in the Sahara, which store the cold of the night to create eco-friendly refrigerators during daytime. We may be getting somewhere after all :wink:

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I think he needs more passes per Z and an automated scraper. Hopefully he tuned it after that. Meanwhile, a wire brush wheel on a drill will hopefully clean up his stuff.

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You’re a few years behind on this… :slight_smile:

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@Renat_Z you wouldn’t have a more recent link for the progress on this, would you?

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@NathanielStenzel Nah. But Google is your friend…

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@Renat_Z Actually, Google is not my friend. It keeps giving me links to crap where people keep reposting the videos of his work. If there is more progress on solar sintering, the information on it is lost among all of the reposts.