Monday 20 February 2012

Do you want some inspiration for your 3D Printer project?

Check out this link: "The Man Who Prints Houses"
http://www.themanwhoprintshouses.com/Home.html


and the movie trailer here:

From the "About" page:

3D-printing is a method that physically realises digital designs layer by layer using a fluid substance that can be hardened by lasers or other binding agents. To date, it’s been used for small-scale manufacturing and as architectural maquettes. Enrico, however, has far grander plans.
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Having built his printer – the world’s largest – from scratch, there’s no shortage of work offers for this highly-skilled and imaginative engineer. Throughout the course of the film, we see Enrico embark on an array of innovative projects: constructing the tallest printed sculpture in existence, working with Foster + Partners and the European Space Agency on a programme to colonise the moon, solidifying a sand dune in the desert, and printing the closest thing to an actual house: a small Italian dwelling known as a trullo.


I sure hope this movie makes it onto one of my local TV stations soon!

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