{"id":943,"date":"2012-02-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/documentary-about-inventor-of-giant-3d-printer-that-can-print-a-house\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:00:00","slug":"documentary-about-inventor-of-giant-3d-printer-that-can-print-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/documentary-about-inventor-of-giant-3d-printer-that-can-print-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary about inventor of giant 3D printer that can print a house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/AqvsrNiG_Bo\/documentary-about-inventor-of.html\">Documentary about inventor of giant 3D printer that can print a house<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The Man Who Prints Houses is a documentary about Enrico Dini, an Italian roboticist who switched tracks to design and build enormous 3D printers capable of outputting houses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Having built his printer \u2013 the world\u2019s largest \u2013 from scratch, there\u2019s no shortage of work offers for this highly-skilled and imaginative engineer. Throughout the course of the film, we see Enrico embark on an array of innovative projects: constructing the tallest printed sculpture in existence, working with Foster + Partners and the European Space Agency on a programme to colonise the moon, solidifying a sand dune in the desert, and printing the closest thing to an actual house: a small Italian dwelling known as<\/p>\n<p>a trullo.<\/p>\n<p>The long-term nature of these projects and the current financial climate take their toll on Enrico and his team of workers, as contracts fail to be honoured and the infant technology stutters. Travel back to 2008 and it\u2019s a different story, as Enrico describes how he was staring a \u20ac50m investment in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Just as he\u2019s about to sell up and move to London, the stock market crashes\u2026 he must rebuild his business all over again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanwhoprintshouses.com\/Trailer.html\">The Man Who Prints Houses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Thanks, gaiapunk!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=190ea14ead75a00ec20d7ec8ebbb2871&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=190ea14ead75a00ec20d7ec8ebbb2871&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/AqvsrNiG_Bo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary about inventor of giant 3D printer that can print a house: The Man Who Prints Houses is a documentary about Enrico Dini, an Italian roboticist who switched tracks to design and build enormous 3D printers capable of outputting houses: Having built his printer \u2013 the world\u2019s largest \u2013 from scratch, there\u2019s no shortage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-fd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}