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Cory Doctorow replied to the topic Is a moonbase the killer app for 3D printing? in the Conversation Questionspace 10 years, 6 months ago
No, I don’t think so. But I think that doing something that represents a long-term gift to our descendants, like sending materiel to the Moon to pave the way for our great-great-grandchildren to take up residence there, is emblematic of the kind of thinking that we’ll need to take up in order to confront the unstable, short-term, apocalyptic…[Read more]
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Cory Doctorow replied to the topic Materials & Engineering in the Conversation Remote Stereolunagraphy 12 years, 5 months ago
Material sorting of regolith using centrifuges derived from 3D prints, from UW’s Microgravity Team:
https://depts.washington.edu/zerog/experiment/
Extraterrestrial regolith can be utilized for a variety of […]
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Cory Doctorow started the topic Solar sintering in the Conversation Remote Stereolunagraphy 12 years, 10 months ago
The sand printer was solar powered thus it would work at both burning man and in space.
Solar power is clearly always an available power source. The harvest density needs to
be verified.
Don’t really need […]
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Cory Doctorow started the topic Here's the premise: in the Conversation Remote Stereolunagraphy 13 years ago
A group of Burning Man hackers mod a powder-deposition printer to use solar energy and some kind of locally derived binder to print playa dust (gypsum sand), powered by photovoltaic arrays, possibly using COTS […]