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Print Your House!

by Jason Sanders | September 5, 2008 at 11:34 am

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Tired of high home building prices? Print your house using a concrete jet printer and a CAD model. 3d printing has been around for a while, but this is one of the first large scale applications that looks like it may be successful.

They've just got funding from Caterpillar to further the research. Amazing stuff, especially when the team says it should be eventually be able to put together a 2,000-square-foot, two storey home in just a day, with all the wiring and plumbing automatically inserted too. Even NASA is interested, as this may be a good solution for building Moonbases.

The only problem they encountered during development is that the cartridge keeps reporting that it's empty even if it's still half full.