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Lasersaur Manual - MainPage. This manual is the main resource for both building and maintaining a Lasersaur laser cutter. The basic idea is, when you build it you can easily maintain it. The other idea is that an open source design can improve over time through the collaboration of many people. We hope in three years it will have evolved to the point where it has multiple robotic arms sticking out capable of building space stations :) Bluestem Strings BEGINNERS GUIDE TO LAP STEEL CONSTRUCTION. How to Grow Unlimited Celery Without Entering the Contra Code. Backyard Aquaponics - Video. ShopBot. The ShopBot is a low-cost CNC, or computer controlled router. Think of it as a large-scale milling machine. It is great for small-scale production runs of machine parts in wood or metal. A friend of mine used his ShopBot to cut the gears and mechanism (other than the chime) for a full-scale replica of a grandfather's Clock. ShopBots (and their kin) can also fabricate extremely detailed 3D contour maps (whole cities!)

, and other intricate 3D surfaces. We have one at the design school I teach at. -- J. I work at Stanford's design school -- called the d.school. I have also used a Shop Bot while working with a podiatrist who practices as a foot surgeon. ShopBot has a very strong user community and were always very responsive with tech support. --Dave Braggeroer ShopBot Desktop$5,000Available from and manufactured by ShopBot Tools Know of a better tool, or need a recommendation?

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Cbg. Bending. Air-formed domes. Main > Housing and construction [edit] The Binishell Place a balloon on the ground. Cover it with wet reinforced concrete. Inflate the balloon. Let the concrete harden. Voilà - an indestructible concrete dome built in one day using 20% of the material and 20% of the energy of a normal home. When building a home, you must fight gravity to get the roof and walls into place. "I am able now to build a dome at lower cost even than a conventional structure in no time because it takes about 60 minutes to lift and shape to the final position a dome a big as the Pantheon in Rome" - Dante Bini" From Binishells website: "The Binishells may be the most innovative new system for construction since the introduction of prefabrication in the late 1800s.

Videos: [edit] Dante Bini's patents US patents last 20 years, so these are all in the public domain now: [edit] Other Patents [edit] Related technologies for dome building Monolithic domes as well as ferrocement are other technologies to build concrete domes. Monolithic Dome homes, schools, churches, storages, gyms and more | Monolithic.

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