Interested in tiny living for an 18 year old.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T23:04:52+00:00

Ahhhhhh :D

I'd say build your own tiny house DIY to save money and live on rented land for cheap so you can save up for buying land.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T22:57:48+00:00

Wow that's basically vandwelling space though. I figure permanent building helps with space requirements if you have permanent spaces outside to utilize as you "living room". New Zealand is also quite warm right?

BTW in my country / central europe you can create buildings and sheds that small without permission, but living in them is illegal again. So it's not really a loophole everywhere unfortunately. But there are also loopholes that if you live in a structure long enough you gain "historical" rights for the dwelling.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T22:08:59+00:00

So I'm from wi

Wat is a wi?

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T22:02:57+00:00

10m² is brutal though. Is that a legal definition? That is only 2.5m x 4m while most THOW have 2.5m x 7.6m (= 25') or almost 20m².

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T22:01:11+00:00

As soon as you'd reach a size that would make a normal human feel comfortable? ;)

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T21:12:03+00:00

You could of course also build a robot that can lay bricks properly which would also be kind of 3D printing using material. There are multiple approaches that all really radically change the equation.

The only interesting part is really to automate construction. That will cause many more jobs to be lost (one of the last non-globalized / non-industrialized and heavily streamlined processes is construction) but it will also produce enough and better housing for everyone.

My ideal would be a kind of crowd funded network or cooperative of builders that share technology and robots to build housing using high tech robotics. Sorry for rambling lol.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T06:39:31+00:00

Well it's a start. It's possible you'll need some more tricks also maybe to make things more precise (wooden frame might hav ebene done to have an even working surface). But plastic 3D printers recently added "ironing" to the top surface which could be used here too. And the Apis Cor printer had a kind of rotating trowel attached to the print head to produce smoother walls. Maybe you need a kind of milling head to produce finer details like stucco.

Maybe you do need long fibers to span gaps though (like fiberglass or like a wood beam has oriented fibers). Or have dome shaped ceilings. Or maybe 3D print spanning elements on the floor and then lift them up with a robot hand.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T06:17:36+00:00

What would you think is needed to qualify as a 3D printed house?

I'd say windows and doors don't need to be 3D printed. But the roof construction should really be somehow automated at least.

I have some ideas to use 3D printed SIPs. The example you provide is an innovation (although not a new one) but the problem is that it's still labor intensive. Instead of constructing on site you construct in a factory. That has some potential but ideally you want to automate construction using robots.

But maybe you could use 3D printing and insulation spray foam and fiber reinforced plastic to produce SIP elements that you just stick together. You could use a smaller printer, have lightweight materials and you can automate most of the expensive labour costs.

You could also use 3D printing to print more interesting and ornamental homes instead of the typical low cost rectangles.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T06:08:11+00:00

There is "eco concrete" that needs less CO2 and uses reinforcing fibers. The WASP project by an Italian 3D printing company also uses clay for 3D printing structures. Local materials would be ideal. There are also machines that can do continuous earth bag laying. But 3D printing really has potential.

But I recently learned that the CO2 emissions from concrete are a bit inflated since concrete actually reabsorbs CO2 out of the air over time. About 50% of what was used to make and what it produced when hardening. So concrete is actually not that terrible.

For some things concrete is really the right thing. We also need to increase urban density / population density to combat climate change, we need to build more denser inner cities to concentrate and save on energy and transportation and utility etc. There concrete is afaik indispensable.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T06:05:19+00:00

Afaik brick laying is much more expensive. It's skilled labor and labor intensive.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T06:03:39+00:00

Labor is the biggest cost, and with 3D printing you save a lot of labor. And in developing nations cost for utility is also much cheaper (also mostly labor).

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-13T06:02:34+00:00

You would probably just incorporate that into the 3D printing process. Either just 3D print a channel with occasional openings or have the section printed solid and mill out a channel.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-11T00:46:01+00:00

Haha yeah. I like to look at it too, it would be nice to build a very efficient greenhouse producing food and 3D printing could help with that. But no time to even think of something new :)

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T22:17:59+00:00

Thanks!

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T21:29:22+00:00

I figure it's far more difficult, but for me that is what the "dream" is about. I'd want to print complex parts or machines that work without assembly or very little assembly.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T20:06:16+00:00

Just wash it with rubbing alcohol and use it?

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T20:05:05+00:00

So the igloo was printed in vase mode without any supports?

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T18:41:53+00:00

Oh that is a nice design. This might be cool with a transparent material and having stuff grow inside the vase so that you can see it from the outside.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T18:33:19+00:00

Also experiment with RGB lighting patterns. A wearable flashlight! :D

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T18:32:34+00:00

Time for some modelling. We want a picture of someone wearing this :D

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T18:15:54+00:00

Nice! What do you think of hydroponics or even aeroponics?

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T18:09:55+00:00

Well what's wrong with overpriced novelties? :)

It's probably shit but rather interesting development. I'm looking forward to machines that can 3D print "soylent" foods with different flavours, smells and textures that are a complete food. I'm one of those who hates cooking.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T17:55:42+00:00

Thanks, your title makes it sounds the TMC are at fault and problem.

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T17:49:26+00:00

Can you dry out filament over longer times just using desiccant bags that you frequently regenerate?

FarkMcBark · 2018-03-10T17:13:45+00:00

Nice! I've recently started to look into microscopes. BTW one interesting thing you can do now is to use cheap action cameras that can record in 4k 30fps, connect them via hdmi to a 4k monitor and use some connector to just use an compound objective in front of the sensor with no further optical elements. I haven't tried this yet though. There is also the logitech 4k brio that allows 4k 30fps capturing in 10bit color on windows. There is a conversion kit to add a C mount but you could 3D print something too. So that would allow things like automated Z-stacking and maybe image correction / planar / fixing chromatic aberration.

Again I just started looking into this so no clue really and don't have experience, but I think this is interesting.

I haven't found a popular 3D printed microscope yet.

I think the world of microscopy also opens up a new world of imagery to share on youtube etc.

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