This is much like the Solar Sinter 3-D printer, a sort of engineering art project by Markus Kayser in 2010: http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/26/solar-sinter-solar-powered-3d-printer-tur... which is even cooler, because it runs entirely on solar power and needs no raw material apart from common desert sand (far western Egypt as shown here, but I'm sure most other deserts would work too). The term "sinter" is a bit incorrect, because it merely melts the sand which then fuses on its own into glass as it cools. On 1/24/13, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
FYI -- If I had a 3D printer this big, I'd print something that couldn't be built any other way -- e.g., some sort of fractal structure.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-landscape-house-20130121...
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