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Robot builder could 'print' houses

MongoTheGeek said:
Sweet. A bit paranoid but seriously cool.
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paranoid? that's an understatement....:D They've got a house in the woods in Colorado and they're worried about a terrorist attack.... :rolleyes:

Interesting design, but a serious lack of windows - and the roll up door for the front is a bit much. If they had incorporated it a little better so you don't actually see it when its rolled up.

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Applexilef said:
If you guys are interested I'll take a picture of the poster for you guys.
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That would be awesome! I'm really curious to see how this machine deals with reinforcing those walls it lays down.
 
Applexilef said:
Hey Everyone.

I am student at UCF and a researcher for its construction lab here. Recently we hosted a conference sponsored by NSF (National Science Foundation) about the construction technology for the future. We had all participants present a poster about their current research and we happened to have the guys from california present their contour crafting technique. It caught a lot of eyes, I asked to leave his poster with me so that I could show it to everyone who visited our lab. It's a really interesting poster and it has pictures of their prototype walls. I remember that their goal was to build a habitable home in 20 hours. He also mentioned that they were trying to make the set up equipment weigh less than 200 pounds (so that they can do more homes). If you guys are interested I'll take a picture of the poster for you guys.
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That would be amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing it
 
Applexilef said:
Hey Everyone.

I am student at UCF and a researcher for its construction lab here. Recently we hosted a conference sponsored by NSF (National Science Foundation) about the construction technology for the future. We had all participants present a poster about their current research and we happened to have the guys from california present their contour crafting technique. It caught a lot of eyes, I asked to leave his poster with me so that I could show it to everyone who visited our lab. It's a really interesting poster and it has pictures of their prototype walls. I remember that their goal was to build a habitable home in 20 hours. He also mentioned that they were trying to make the set up equipment weigh less than 200 pounds (so that they can do more homes). If you guys are interested I'll take a picture of the poster for you guys.
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I would also be very interested in seeing a picture of the poster. Did you acquire any other information from the conference that would be of interest to us here?
 
ok guys, it's sunday night right now. Tomorrow I have classes so I'll take the time to take some pictures and hopefully post them by monday night. I didn't think you guys were going to be this interested, but I've been proven wrong. Just hold on, the pictures are coming...
 
OK, here are the poster pictures. Sorry for the delay, you know how engineering classes can take up your time...
 

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As stated on the poster:
Contour Crafting: A Layered fabrication technique
Advantages of CC
Better surface quality
Higher Speed
Possibility of large object fabrication
More material choices
Simplicity for some over-hang structures
Suitable for large mold making
 

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ok guys, those were all the pictures I took, I had to reduce their quality so macrumors would take them. Hope you guys like them.
 
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