Maybe you should wait on building that 3D-printed house.
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We’ve been hearing about the possibility of 3D-printed, full-size houses for some time. We may even get our first one sometime this year, thanks to the efforts of a couple of different architectural firms. Now you can get an idea of what it would take to create your own home from 3D-printed blocks.
Real estate blog Movoto has created a “3D Print your House” calculator to give you the daunting numbers involved with using a 3D printer to make your abode. The numbers are based on the time and cost of materials of using a MakerBot Replicator 2 to print out plastic bricks.
The calculations involved working out how long and at what cost it would take the Replicator 2 to produce a brick measuring 8 inches by 3.5 inches by 2.75 inches. It would also cost $12 in plastic to make each of these theoretical bricks. The rest is about determining how many bricks it would take to build a house.
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