Originally shared by David Fuchs
One of my two projects is an #opensource #3dhouseprinter . It needs a very large shop to do the build. The thoughts is use 6 - 40 foot ConEx shipping containers and a slab of concrete set up in the same way as the image below. This is ~3,200sq feet for $30k USD plus the cost of the land (18k - 25k USD). Any thoughts?
#3dPrinting #3dPrinter @Katie_Yates
Guess it depends on the type of house bot you’re building. Had you considered the type of gantry system you’d be using? No doubt there will be old tower cranes on eBay or maybe those big winches they mount on ibeams. Shipping containers is a good start though. Modular, cheap, easy to cut and weld. Isn’t that picture from a film?
@Tim_Rastall : TRON Legacy
@Tim_Rastall For the “house bot”, I am planning on running down a similar route as contour crafting for the print head. See the video in the link below…
The design is basically a dual interlaced scissor lift design (to stop front to back sway) with a truss between the lifts for the print, lift, painting, tiling, etc heads. The lift capacity of the design is huge and it only has 1/8 to 1/4 inch of give-sway at full extension.
You could also place the shipping containers in a U shape to give u more room.
Shipping containers are cheap for houses but wondering if industrial scaffolding might do the job for a lot less cost?..
@David_Fuchs Wow, I’d missed that talk. I hadn’t realised they reached that level of maturity with the print heads. I was really interested in the work the guys in the link below were doing using CNC cut plywood to build a whole house (cavities are filled with concrete or foam). It looks like the two technologies would be very complementary as the concrete printer would likely struggle with complex interior fit-out.
I’m impressed by your vision here, and by making it open source, well, at the risk pre emptive deployment of hyperbole; it could change a whole industry.
If you need any help, I’d be very please to chip in in whatever way I can (I’m in NZ so probably not very geographically convenient)
@Tim_Rastall I need all the help I can get. The 3D house printer is being done as time permits. Join the following community, it is the 3D house printer community here on google+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111114170550644237312/communities/102752752578512300528
Awesome. Done 
@David_Fuchs Whoops, just realised I provided the wrong link on the plywood House, I’ll post the right one on the community page.
FYI For sharp-eyed Tron fans, the faded “DUMONT” lettering on the container was a character in the first Tron movie. Dumont was an I/O keeper for ENCOM.
@Tim_Rastall np
