3D Wood Printer

[Pat Barry]

3D wood printing is what someone needs to be working on. Here is what they can do with pancake batter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1853707494/pancakebot-the-worlds-first-pancake-printer). Why not wood?

[Rich Riddle]

You mean like this?

https://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/this-is-what-3d-printed-wood-looks-like/

[Pat Barry]

That's close Rich. Not quite like other 3D printing technology but certainly, as they call it, additive. I can see a 3D wood printer in the near future, probably making trivets or knick knacks, artistic things, maybe stuff that get post processed with a laser for example. Structural stuff like furniture??? Maybe someday, although lots of us might no longer call it wood.

[John Lanciani]

I think it wouldn't really be wood any more, really just sawdust and glue, kind of like MDF.

[Scott Shepherd]

How about just printing your whole house?

http://inhabitat.com/large-3d-printer-can-print-an-entire-two-story-house-in-under-a-day/

or


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SObzNdyRTBs

[Pat Barry]

How about just printing your whole house?
According to the video, a skyscraper is the future. Not sure I'd want to be one of the first tenants though.