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Will your next home be 3D printed? 2,500sq ft. home in 20 hours! #3dprinting #3dprinter #3dprinted #3dprint
This may be too optimistic - a skeleton shelter for poorest people, but not my next house.
Modern houses are functioning; that means they must be made of many different materials - iron, steel, copper, plastic, concrete, stone, wood, etc.
The picture omit many machine parts. How many extruders and hoses can you fit on that one machine?
3 days ground work. 4 days fit out. Never mind drains and roof.
Fantasy land is the only place you can build as quick as they claim.
As above, this good idea is gaining a lot of hype related baggage. They have not yet built a house and until they put the bot in an actual building site and work out that building work is dirty, wet, delay prone etc etc, thus will continue to just be a good idea.
This has been done about 15 years ago.Giant robot that lays down a concrete house. It wasn’t called 3D printing back then, but the idea was the same. It never caught on because it doesn’t make any sense, financially or engineering-ly.
Exactly. If it’s simple concrete laying, then scaffolding and a concrete truck is a much smarter solution.
What is it made of? Concrete doesn’t dry fast enough to extrude a wall.
@Joshua_Marinacci depends on how you dope it and what they add on top of the aggregate. There are anti-slumping quick set mixes that will work. They have built walls with the technology, it works, it’s just immature compared to the current hype driven rhetoric.
I suppose you could make a temp building out of spray foam insulation
True. I wouldn’t want to live in a concrete adobe hut, which is what this seems to be making. Plus, the cost of a house in the rich world has more to do with land than construction costs. If you needed to quickly make some temporary structures, however, this would be pretty cool. Perfect for military or research outposts.