[Robotgroup] Print a house

[Don Colbath]

What I still want just got a name.   I'm calling it Mego!    Full scale 
Lego blocks like concrete or cinder blocks.  You build up your house and 
when you like the design you pump in "mortar" maybe an epoxycrete and 
it's ready to move in.   One of the more exciting things i saw at the 
renewable energy thing about two years ago was papercrete.  Cement and 
shredded paper.  Kind of like the paper mache stuff egg cartons used to 
be made of on y harder.  Really light.  Need a window? get out the 
Sawzall.   Not good for load bearing so you would need a frame.  I was 
driving through Fburg thinking about it one day and noticed one of old 
German half timbered houses and thought it would work perfect for that 
type of frame.  I've also seen adobe-like smear it on applications for 
papercrete. 

Don

Leslie Filip wrote:

>Extruder of building materials. Video is first, house printing  
>article second.
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>http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp? 
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>http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=57
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