3D printed houses coming here soon?

**Shrek** · #1 04/29/14, 11:49 PM

Giant printers can spit out 10 per day.

http://news.filehippo.com/2014/04/gi...ouses-per-day/

geo in mi · #2 04/30/14, 04:55 AM

My Grandma had a saying for those dehumanizing structures: "Rabbit hutches."

geo

DAVID In Wisconsin · #3 04/30/14, 06:33 AM

Cool idea. Be interesting to see where it leads.

manfred · #4 04/30/14, 07:06 AM

The entire country should get behind this. My daughter works at walmart, raising two kids alone, pays $700 per month rent in a poorly built house. Everyone needs an affordable place to live. It's a constant worry for struggling folks.

**Shrek** · #5 04/30/14, 07:14 AM

When I read that article first I thought about when I used to use a deck of playing cards to make card houses and then I thought "Well theres the first stage of Gene Roddenberrys Star Trek replicator to follow the communicators (flip open cellphone), plastic data module (3.5 inch hard shell "floppy" disk), phaser (taser) and tricorder (tablets with external plug in attachments) that have come to pass since the 1960s.

Then I got to thinking a bit silly and wondered if when they print those 3D shanty shacks if the underside of the floor is stamped "Made in China" for export as 2/3 of the consumer products we buy in this country are as the Chinese try to revive the Sears Roebuck farmhouse kits for the 21st century.

geo in mi · #6 04/30/14, 09:51 AM

The Sears Roebuck farm house.

http://www.antiquehomestyle.com/plan...rs-264b110.htm

Anyone remember National Homes, built in Lafayette , Indiana?

And here are some examples of Habitat for Humanity North American houses: http://www.habitat.org/how/naexamples.aspx

geo

simi-steading · #7 04/30/14, 10:07 AM

Very interesting idea... It kind of takes me back to thinking about Lloyd Wright and some of his utilitarian houses... May were furnished with utilitarian furniture made from ply..

Imagine a printed house that has all the furniture printed in place... I could see a lot of other ideas with this going far.. I could even see multi million dollar homes done like this... Man.. why can I never come up with the money making ideas?

where I want to · #8 04/30/14, 10:27 AM

So we now make machines to do a lot of our thinking and machines to build things. The minute we make a machine that holds opinions, we are done for.

arabian knight · #9 04/30/14, 10:37 AM

Sounds and looks pretty cool. Yes we do need affordable housing, and that 3D printing idea may just do the trick.

Dixie Bee Acres · #10 04/30/14, 10:46 AM

They better be able to make them cheaper amd cheaper, noone will be able to afford housing when all skilled labor is replaced by machines.

manfred · #11 04/30/14, 11:28 AM

I thinks advancements in technology have helped mankind much more than harmed us. Refrigerators put ice delivery men out of work too.

simi-steading · #12 04/30/14, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by manfred

Refrigerators put ice delivery men out of work too.

That may be true, but my 1928 GE monitor top is still kicking as I type this.. but my fancy new Hartland super duper extra expensive fridge sits there broke... with a serious design flaw.. which is why they no longer make the model I'm told by the company..

FarmboyBill · #13 04/30/14, 12:10 PM

When I get moved, and I still have a choice, as everything in the house here is antique cept the MW. TV & puter and tiny fridg , ill get onna those fridges.

Well, IF they can clean up/out garbage dumps, there may be a market in moving, trash to these house makers.

DAVID In Wisconsin · #14 04/30/14, 12:38 PM

I suspect by the time federal, state and local governments add their unnecessary fees, taxes, inspections, rules and whatever these houses might not be so cheap.

CIW · #15 04/30/14, 05:07 PM

Two weeks ago I went to an engineering conference in Salt Lake City. While there, using an ultaviolet scanner, they scanned and printed a fully working cresent wrench. All in one piece. It took 47 minutes.
I saw things like intake manifolds that are being used in NASCAR's, and aircraft parts from the A390 Airbus. All printed.
I met a man that scans castings from dentists and overnight builds full dentures and dental implants. He said that he had $84,000 invested in a scanner, software, and 5 printers.
He is his only employee. The machines are set up every 12 hours. Once the printers are going he shuts off the lights and goes in the house. It takes about 2.5 hours to set them up.
No sick leave, no vacation, no wages, no pention. Those machines just keep working.
This is growing fast. Either get on the bus or get run over by it.

**Shrek** · #16 04/30/14, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by simi-steading

That may be true, but my 1928 GE monitor top is still kicking as I type this.. but my fancy new Hartland super duper extra expensive fridge sits there broke... with a serious design flaw.. which is why they no longer make the model I'm told by the company..

I know the feeling. I inherited my great aunt and uncles 1952 model Frigidaire unit with shoebox freezer to use as my beer and garden picked vegetable cool storage till prep fridge and I have used it as my back up fridge three times as newer models in the kitchen died and I had to wait a few days to get the new one in.

FarmboyBill · #17 04/30/14, 08:40 PM

Jay, does yours have a gold circle 1/2 way inside the pull out door handle and 1/2 way out? The Ice box is on top, and the bottom drawers, crispers, or something like that aren't full bins but have a hump at the bottom back? Mom got one around that time, 52 to say 56. I sat around 2ft from it at the table for a decade and a half I imagine.

Joshie · #18 04/30/14, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by manfred

The entire country should get behind this. My daughter works at walmart, raising two kids alone, pays $700 per month rent in a poorly built house. Everyone needs an affordable place to live. It's a constant worry for struggling folks.

Think of all of the construction workers who will be jobless.

FarmboyBill · #19 04/30/14, 09:26 PM

They'll have to transition into trash haulers I guess. The buggy whip makers and salesmen. Buggy makers transitioned into auto makers, Black smiths into welders,
Livery stable owners into gas stations. Harness makers into whatever. Its always been that way, and nobody will change it, IF they can make a house, they can make a car, plane, tractor implements, ect. There will be more than carpenters replaced in 10yrs, if that long.

arnie · #20 04/30/14, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

Jay, does yours have a gold circle 1/2 way inside the pull out door handle and 1/2 way out? The Ice box is on top, and the bottom drawers, crispers, or something like that aren't full bins but have a hump at the bottom back? Mom got one around that time, 52 to say 56. I sat around 2ft from it at the table for a decade and a half I imagine.

my aunt gave me one in the 1980s and its still running as my # 2 fridge now. I kept it kind of sentimental value yet i'v tossed 3 (never new but modern ones ) and its still pluggin along

it also has the crome thing on top of the door saying maed by general moters