3D printing a house is starting to be open sourced
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Unfortunately, projects like these are where "makers" and engineers part ways. It's the boring bits of engineering that always get people: costs, safety standards, and scalability. In this case, for example, where does the foundation for the house come from? You can't 3D print it. You need an earth mover or a bunch of Mexicans with shovels to dig it out. Ok there goes one of your biggest costs. Now on to printing your house. Concrete is pricey even before you create a fancy mix design that can be extruded and not slump. Any cost savings here? probably not. Now your house needs a roof. Well, if you can't print overcuts with plastic you're not doing it with concrete, so a standard truss it is. Again, no cost savings. If you've got this far, you haven't saved any money and we don't even know if your house will pass structural/safety muster. I hate to be a downer, but a lot of these idea are just bad. If you want cheap construction, we'll have to look elsewhere.
Cheap construction would be better achieved by factories the size of cities building pre-fab homes in sections and having them shipped to the location. Then the only real on site work would be the foundation
I agree, though I am loath to support Amazon Home.
Yeah that's a bad idea