Contour Crafting - Print your house

Started by Joe, August 10, 2012, 11:24:21 PM

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Joe

This video can be a little boring at first but if you make it to the 4:30 mark the animation of printing the building is pretty neat.

TEDxOjai - Behrokh Khoshnevis - Contour Crafting: Automated Construction
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Au cointreau, found him interesting from the start. Easy listening to a guy who knows his chit like that. Does this spell the end of the plumbers' bum-crack on construction sites? We can only hope.    :laugh:
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born2print

Brilliant. I had read about this building technique / theory some time back in the context of autonomous robots on the moon / mars. So cool, hey why not house the poor here on Earth too?
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David

nah, then they would just have a house, and what good would that do?    :sarcasm:
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