A 3D Printed House? You Bet. While 3D printing might be all the tech geek rage right now, the cooler story is what some people are doing with it to make an actual difference.
We’ve seen stories of medical uses such as new 3D-printed limbs and that’s incredible but USC professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has just blown my mind. Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concrete-style material, that could “print” a house in as little as 20 hours. Oh, and that material can withstand over three times the PSI force of standard concrete walls.
There can even be larger versions, with multiple “print heads” for use in construction of multi-family dwellings like apartment complexes. Professor Khoshnevis’ TEDx talk goes into more detail, so take a few minutes out of your day to appreciate science. Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing. Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes. Eleven 3D Printing Predictions For the Year 2011. This is a guest post by Joris Peels, the Community Manager of i.materialise, a 3D printing service for designers, inventors and consumers.
They are part of Materialise, a company with over 20 years experience in 3D printing and the market leader in 3D printing services and software. Making predictions is a sure fire path towards getting ridiculed. But, I’ll be brave and go right ahead and make 11 predictions for 3D printing in 2011. Makerbot will sell more than 10,000 3D printers in 2011. To put that in perspective, there are approximately 30,000 3D printers in the world today.