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Concrete-Jet Printer Gets Caterpillar Funding: Print-Out Houses on the Way

5 replies · 1,413 views · Started 05 September 2008

Prrkitty 05 Sep 2008, 17:55

http://gizmodo.com/5045863/concrete+jet-printer-gets-caterpillar-funding-print+out-houses-on-the-way

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The vid is a little over 11 minutes... just so ya know.

All I can say is... WOW! I'm sure some of you already know or have seen this kind of stuff before but this is the first time for me of seeing stuff like this.

Paul sent me the link. One of the guys that he works with saw it and passed it along to the team.

I'm still in the WOW factor...

The_Amaster 05 Sep 2008, 20:42

Heh, 3-D printing is the way of the future. If we can get the massive print-times down, it may even be a form of inanimate-object teleportation.

Radium 05 Sep 2008, 22:58

That is some fast drying concrete O_o... what happens if a wind comes along and blows the little guy off the thin ledge spilling concrete everywhere :S