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A company called Apis Cor has 3D printed a (tiny) house in 24 hours for $10,000, which comes out to about $275/m2.
Reconstructing Buckingham Palace at 77,000 m2 this way would cost only about $21 million. According to a 2010 estimate in The Guardian: "you could build a new energy-efficient replica of the palace for a knock-down £320m", which translates to $552 million.
So: 3D printing the palace would save over a HALF BILLION DOLLARS! Muahahaha (pinkies up!).
Video of the building process.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @05:44PM (6 children)
The real benefit to this technique is building either your perfectly sculpted Elfin Castle, deep in the woods, or your 'carved out of stone' Dwarven Mountain Home, complete with roughened spire for only a fraction of the cost of finding one and carving it out...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @06:02PM (1 child)
I have a better idea: Fuckingham Palace!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @02:17AM
Agreed [google.com] [NSFW]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 24 2017, @06:06PM (3 children)
You could probably also 3D print exquisite detailed carved patterns in the walls. Or extrusions rather than indentations.
You could also 3D print spaces for electrical junction boxes and smooth conduit paths between junction boxes and the main electrical panel. Now you can push your Cat 7, 8, 9, 10, . . . 23, 24 cables through the walls and have them working so fast that they won't be obsolete before installation is completed.
Not sure about plumbing installation.
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday April 24 2017, @08:42PM (1 child)
Not with the tech they used. If you look at the pictures you'll see the resolution is quite crude.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday April 24 2017, @10:02PM
One 3D printer to do the rough work, one to do the finer details. Carpenters not needed as they may dovetail together with minor sanding and adhesive application.
As a tradesperson, I am glad my area of work is in troubleshooting, rather than construction...that may remain relevant for some time more.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 25 2017, @05:26AM
There's a reason one installs small tubes into buildings instead of cables. Once a specific cabling standard is obsolete. Another one can just be pulled straight through.
10GBASE-T using Category 6a goes 100 meter and 40GBASE-T goes 30 meter using Category 8. So this is indeed a moving target.