If you haven’t heard of it, Contour Crafting is an awesome large-scale (i.e. building-sized) rapid-prototyping process being developed by Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California. The process uses robotic arms with actuated, interchangeable trowels, to “extrude” concrete, layer by layer, to make walls under computer numeric control. IMHO, this technology will devastate, [...]
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Feel Good List No. 1 – UncleMaxSays.comFeel Good List No. 2 – UncleMaxSays.com I’m going to implement some of these to improve my approachability.
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Responding to Johann’s tag and Michael’s original mandate, I have decided to list the top five or so reasons I am a nerd….even though Johann misspelled my name as “Hauter.” I spent last Friday through Saturday at the Mars Society Conference in Boulder, Colorado. I mocked certain obviously ill-considered plans, such as the “sub-$10/lb maglev [...]
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