{snip}Care to 3D print your next house? Really BIG 3D printers are coming! Our heavy duty, open source, stepper motor drivers are driving this beast. It's actually a prototype that fills a 2 car garage and prints segments of full sized walls with space for insulation, insets for windows, doors, etc...
Quote from: Prober on 04/01/2014 03:15 am{snip}Care to 3D print your next house? Really BIG 3D printers are coming! Our heavy duty, open source, stepper motor drivers are driving this beast. It's actually a prototype that fills a 2 car garage and prints segments of full sized walls with space for insulation, insets for windows, doors, etc... To make this printer space related we need a version that uses regolith as its ink.
To make this printer space related we need a version that uses regolith as its ink.
The WAAM 3d printing technology could be used to build metal shelters on moon and maybe in space. Feed stock may eventually be extracted from regolith. You need to Google it as I don't have a LINK. Same goes for SpiderFab.Tethers Unlimited's SpiderFab also has great potential for developing large space structure' s. Would be perfect for SSPs.
Can you 3D print a 3D printer?
The lastest SpaceShow's 6th Apr guest speaker is 3D printer expert. http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=2222