I remember watching this 8 years ago. I was just a kid then, but I think it definitely inspired me on some unconscious level. I'm studying to be a mechatronics engineer now. I'm also a huge 3D printing nerds and lead a Makerspace at my university 😁. Thanks from the future!
@durandthibaud944511 ай бұрын
Almost the same as you, and i also got my mecatronics diploma + 3d printing enthousiaste 😂
@wpelfeta8 жыл бұрын
I like how there wasn't any dumb inspirational music. Just a cool video.
@stevenevans67983 жыл бұрын
A cut or two and some dumb inspirational music and it would easily reach 1mil views
@hemoglobbin2 жыл бұрын
@@stevenevans6798 and a lot of dumb comments
@NathanWiki10 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most brilliant things ive ever seen.
@mattmccallum20074 жыл бұрын
A cool use for this might be to create Artificial Reef modules. The sand is already at the beach, you just need some people to take the units underwater for fish to hide in and coral to grow from.
@sininetulnukas10 жыл бұрын
Ingenious. That's manufacturing from local materials by using 100% renewable energy and producing a product that is probably physically really strong and totally non-polluting after it breaks. This is really a GIANT LEAP forward. I'm an IT-guy and I new about 3D printers before, but when I watched this video, I felt like an ape, who arrived from a cave to a city.
@OperationDarkside7 жыл бұрын
- Now make it a moving robot. - Make it sandproof (death of all mechanics) - Place it in the desert. - Let it build a house. - ??? - Profit
@aoeu2566 жыл бұрын
I was thinking of making it self-replicating. To do that it can print a giant mover robot that is powered by wind (see the strandbeests) that physically re connects all of the parts of the 3D printer after they are being printed. It must print the wheels, the axels, and the mirror. Also I was thinking that the mirror can be made lighter and be in a "fractal" configuration like leaves on a tree. This allows the Maximum amount of sunlight without taking up too much energy.
@kekchanbiggestfan5 жыл бұрын
Mars base builder
@Chamieiniibet4 жыл бұрын
p.3 should be "Place it in a desert on Mars or Moon"
@feraudyh2 жыл бұрын
@@aoeu256 Yes, of course. Self replicating factories on the moon or desert would be a fantastic idea. I had this idea many decades ago, but there's a *huge* gap between a general idea and a realistic implementation.
@aoeu2562 жыл бұрын
@@feraudyh Its a lot easier to do if you have the factory(3d printer) and energy collector(geothermal or wind turbine or fresnel lens or solar panel) not be mobile sort of like how trees are immobile. The printer or "molder" will print lego blocks out of sand or CaCo3 or Ice (less energy, on top of mountains on Mars, in cold valleys or caves, or antartica) then a moving hand will assemble the lego blocks into various things like chambers for mixing in elements to make silicon for solar panels, wind turbines, hands, printer parts (wheels, track, nozzle, arm) if you spin something after liquifying it then you can split silica, iron, magnesium, calcium, and alumina parts from the sand as heavy elements would go to the top while lighter to the bottom. You could make a intergrated chip that could be split apart to power the machines like one chip could be split into 1000 chips so you could put 1000 chips to make 1 million printer factories.
@IberianCraftsman3 жыл бұрын
with a big fresnel lens driving through the dessert they could quickly build rock walls to stop the advance of sand in the dessert, or just to 3D print entire houses like this.
@matzerat2 жыл бұрын
This is amazing technology! Why isn't this used industrially, e.g. for the manufacture of bricks? Let's go through the criteria of profitability: 1. Material cost - sand - free 2. Energy costs - sun - free 3. Personnel costs - Workers can certainly be trained quickly 4. Technology effort - available and commonplace 5. Time expenditure - far too expensive because too slow even with parallel production e.g. the bowl certainly needed several hours Conclusion: This is actually a very good idea, but unfortunately it cannot be used economically.
@feraudyh2 жыл бұрын
You need almost total automation, so only occasional checks need to be done.
@jpclement9110 жыл бұрын
When most guys waste all what the earth can produce, I admire these exceptional attempts to something with nothing (almost). Congrats! Go on!...
@beeldbuisbengel14 жыл бұрын
Wow, I saw this in my visions when i was a kid, it's fantastic that you did this! I thought about making greenhouses and watertraps for reforrestation of the deserts
@grator4 жыл бұрын
If you have more good ideas post them on brainstorming.com
@tipiks1563 жыл бұрын
I also thought about it. The desert has so much wasted space. The only question is how transparent sand made of glass is.
@rosamundwendt36744 жыл бұрын
From sand to glass sculpture. Fabulous.
@elliotcfields10 жыл бұрын
When life gives you lemons you make lemonade. Way to take your two most prevalent natural resources and show that they can be used for manufacturing. While currently crude, proof of it being possible only leads to refinement of the technique and materials. Keep up the good work. And to designers everywhere! Your greenest building materials are those that are infinatly renewable and can be sourced locally.
@feraudyh2 жыл бұрын
I had a similar idea yesterday, then I used Google and found this video. However there is a difference: My idea is to make bricks using a *much larger, industrial* installation. These bricks could be exported. Apparently the sand in the part of the Sahara in this video is rich in silicon dioxide. In my idea the objects created would still have some air bubbles in them and would therefore be better at thermal insulation. The composition of the "sand" probably varies from one part of the Sahara desert to another, so some study would be necessary to find the right location. You must never lose sight of the fact that making bricks and concrete is intensely consumptive of fuel (and so produces a lot of CO2). With solar energy you could cut down that CO2 production by a huge factor, and bring money into this part of the world.
@IberianCraftsman3 жыл бұрын
imagine BUILDING HOUSES in the dessert like this and ON MARS, with 0 materials and almost no energy it can print using lava, a giant fresnel lens 3D printer could easily build gouses in the desert just start making walls in a clear sand floor and then lift those 4 walls from the ground and join them using heat to melt the joints together!.
@touldie5732 жыл бұрын
I think the energy from Sun is too low to melt sand / earth / rokcs. Enough to light a cigarette.
@artytomparis2 жыл бұрын
@@touldie573 Watch rock being melted. kzbin.infoE0_vkHdJ7RI?feature=share
@IberianCraftsman Жыл бұрын
Google "fresnel lens" people melt even steel axes with these things. It gets super hot, and you can easily melt metals. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaekgayviq-IedE And these are a nirmal size. If we made one the size of a car, the concentrated light would easily melt through anything, kinda same concept as a laser metal powder 3D printer but with a way stronger laser that wouldn't consume any energy.
@kayaking4autism13 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to do something similar,, when I started my own project /watch?v=BAWLjqMiulo I opted for putting mirrors onto a skydish,, but the problem is my design channels concentrated light energy ACROSS and not DOWN unlike this one. It never occurred to me to use a giant magnifying lens to achieve this truly "miracle device". My Kayser sir, I take my hat off and bow to you, your invention may yet save the world!
@acadman43225 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. I have thought something like this was possible and now I have seen it. The implications for this in space exploration is incredible. It opens the way to efficiently manufacture building materials and artificial artifacts in the vacuum and near vacuum atmospheres while using readily available natural materials and the naturally available energy resource.
@karlpilkington9975 жыл бұрын
Yes! That is how I came here too; from that thought Imagine if humans could make glass from silica sand autonomously with solar; it would open up the possibility of creating essentially infinite greenhouses on the moon as the moon is approximately 50% silica on the surface,, or free floating in space from c-type asteroids
@Lardzor2 жыл бұрын
This was basically my idea for lunar construction. Lots of rock-dust, and plenty of sunlight. No need to bring building materials to the moon if you can make them with the sun.
@indeedItdoes11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing and creative!
@pecholsjones10 жыл бұрын
Thinking of all the sand getting in the joints and contacts makes me want to cry.
@live2make3989 жыл бұрын
3D Printing truly opens a world of endless possibilities.
@elidyson2562 жыл бұрын
More more I watch this the easier the Pyramid from Egypt is easy as I never would've thought. Hollywood and Education has done great job dumbing us down!
@jacobbarber488110 жыл бұрын
We now have our explanation of how the pyramids were built so quickly.
@AhmedHan6 жыл бұрын
No, we don't. Pyramids were made out of stone. Not glass.
@forsaken71614 жыл бұрын
Aliens
@Devious915 жыл бұрын
Amazing ! I wonder if polishing is possible via post processing, or if the designer likes the roughness aesthetically . Or maybe the goal was to eliminate non sustainable steps. I wonder if the designer has considered Solar powered post processing techniques too haha. Great job!
@arthurneddysmith3 жыл бұрын
Would have loved to see the final products after they'd cooled down. An up close view at least. Great video.
@Osiris44418 жыл бұрын
Now off you go to Mars with this technology. hurry up now chaps!
@dobrovik8 жыл бұрын
mars gets about half of the solar energy per square unit, at best - much worse minimum cases. he'll have to bring two i guess!
@Osiris44418 жыл бұрын
Then do it!
@MuzikBike7 жыл бұрын
Then he'll get melted iron oxide.
@yolmak17937 жыл бұрын
You've been fooled. They never even landed on the moon, LOL.
@ExtantFrodo27 жыл бұрын
*"mars gets about half of the solar energy per square unit"* I wonder how factual that is. Does it take into account the lack of attenuation due to Mars' thin atmosphere? I know solar energy just outside our air shell is about 15 times what it is on the ground. It's why I think using this tech on the moon would be so effective for building lots of infrastructure (roads, walls, sinks, tables, shelves, beds, meteor shielding, stairways, refineries (or at least the printable parts of them) machinery frames, ...) The more you don't have to bring to the moon the less weight you need to launch just getting things started. I think most of the structure of a rail launch system could be made in place and later updated with whatever components could not be printed.
@colinforia9 жыл бұрын
i think this is a good start towards manufacturing building material.. i can see a few banks of these producing glass bricks, or columns. and you should be able to use a casting form to refine your products material consistency.
@SciDOCMBC4 жыл бұрын
wow, ein großartiges Projekt
@michaelrichey85162 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a system like this built to automate the creation of building blocks for construction.
@themrfj13 жыл бұрын
This works better than I expected.
@sashoniwa6 жыл бұрын
great creative project , pioneer idea , amazing video, thx !
@Bearlord13 жыл бұрын
Amazing idea! Imagine all that can be achieved with this idea if it is really exploited. Good luck with your project.
@mudfossils63319 жыл бұрын
Genius! That is a green solar furnace and looks like it could easily heat a house or provide power in MANY ways. Silicon does not melt until around 2600f...that is hot and the penetration is &^&^%%^$ AWSOME!
@mharkianescaro39206 жыл бұрын
Your video was mentioned by Daily dose of internet❤
@AsokaJian11 жыл бұрын
amazing. You can build a house by this machine.
@gavinlottering8 ай бұрын
That's some high-tech stuff man
@gaekaas12 жыл бұрын
Hilarious caricature of both sintering and experimenting, a real amusement to watch :) Very good!
@BoutinRonan4 жыл бұрын
WOW j'adore!
@MrYendor19689 жыл бұрын
is there a way to focus the beam into a cluster of fibber optic cable, you could then make a more accurate printer head, you could have a big solar collector piped into a factory via fibber optics.
@kayaking4autism12 жыл бұрын
My thoughts there are a) robot arm printing, totally different from 3 trapezoid threads but bigger working area. b) 3d print the bricks individually stack them by hand c) Saturn V crawler sized vehicle that is also a house 3d printer. My work has mainly been to do with robotic water desalination using solar energy. I can certainly see this as having an application in ISRU water storage by making glass containers then burying them underground
@ptcman82675 жыл бұрын
Well.. Power-Safe.... Interesting application !!!
@latemnetlom6 жыл бұрын
Effing cool idea- awesome!
@vladislavgavrilenko88322 жыл бұрын
best ide die besste ide die ich je gesehen habe und material ist ganze wüste
@bradperry6043 жыл бұрын
This needs to be scaled.... immediately! Affordable housing
@mrblack97912 жыл бұрын
cool it would be cool to see it make its own tracks to ride on
@ExtantFrodo29 жыл бұрын
Now think of all the things you could 3d print on the moon as part of your infrastructure.
@ET_AYY_LMAO9 жыл бұрын
ExtantFrodo2 THIS! LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!
@ExtantFrodo29 жыл бұрын
ET I was just reading now about a 3dprinted habitat design competition but sadly they require entries carry $100,000 insurance policies to cover any possible accidents. How the hell would any regular person get to enter their designs no matter how extensive, great or detailed?
@knightlykin14998 жыл бұрын
+ExtantFrodo2 Glass dome, made of moon sand. Can you imagine how much moon glass would be worth?
@ExtantFrodo28 жыл бұрын
***** Zero gravity manufacturing (yes, I know that's not talking about the moon) will enable all manner of impossible composites (foam steel for instance). The hope is to move past a scarcity based economy not continue it on a grander scale.
@knightlykin14998 жыл бұрын
ExtantFrodo2 True.
@rpaull32 жыл бұрын
This video was posted 10 years ago, surely this guy built a city out there by now
@KelvinW34410 жыл бұрын
Very very cool. Just a bit bigger and you can start 3D-printing houses in the desert for free.
@davidwheatcroft27975 жыл бұрын
Wow! Very clever! How about an even bigger Fresnel lens? Make cement?
@waqqodonkey10 жыл бұрын
amazing!!! I wonder what these geniuses are gonna be capable of in 50, 200, 500 yrs.
@beladn71012 жыл бұрын
thank you for making me discover marcin Jakubowski he is a genius, I think there are many marcin Jakubowski in the world but the problem they don't meet each other
@TheBowersj3 жыл бұрын
This could be scalled up to build structures by making it roll around, you could add a hopper that drops sand as needed.
@feraudyh2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@rookwood41754 жыл бұрын
A mutation of this would be a good way to desalinate sea water. It wouldn't have to move like a 3d printer, it would just have to focus the light on an element.
@karlpilkington9975 жыл бұрын
Do you have estimates of the material properties of the end product?
@schultheismatthius5 жыл бұрын
Can't you sharpen the focal point? I mean, I know you won't be able to do thick prints like that one but at least you can make more detailed prints. Also, couldn't you make a mechanism that can move another layer of sand without having to do it manually? I think that would improve accuracy. Could you show the cleaned print in another video?
@kayaking4autism12 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly researched this subject and did my own research on direct solar energy concentration (see my channel) I concluded that any structure fused together using light energy was inferior to that of materials bonded together using electron beams. The best solution I could find was a solar concentrator to either but not both at the same time process raw minerals and generate steam turbine to generate the power with an electron beam melter that could manufacture very strong, usable parts.
@sergeikurek6 жыл бұрын
was it hard to show final product longer? is it hard? strong?
@ExtantFrodo212 жыл бұрын
plus one on the crucible! I've made my 3d printer from almost entirely dumpster finds. The exception being a stepper driver because my hand crafted one was too finicky and gas to weld the bedframe angle iron for the supports. Even the tools to build it came from the trash as well as the computer system to run the programs.
@asdfghjkl123asd6 жыл бұрын
That is absolutely amasing.
@pingnaganp7 жыл бұрын
Great work bro, indeed a brave attempt
@xJINCHOx4 жыл бұрын
Why not show the objects printed after being cleaned? 🤷🏻♂️
@TheRealMaxion13 жыл бұрын
@GuanoLad To show that it wasn't hooked up to anything, and that spot had good supply of the stuff he needed to do it (sand and sunlight).
@barabolak2 жыл бұрын
That's pretty awesome!
@simianbarcode30117 жыл бұрын
very cool concept... would like to see this streamlined for more than just a novelty someday
@EdgarGerson10 жыл бұрын
amazing let me know whats next
@314jake13 жыл бұрын
beautiful piece of film.
@IberianCraftsman3 жыл бұрын
i need to know the material properties of that material, does anyone know where to buy cheap fresnel lens of that size or bigger?
@Jagdpanzer-bh4pb6 жыл бұрын
Daily dose of internet
@RealisiticEdgeMod6 жыл бұрын
Brought ME here.
@harshwardhandadhe46293 жыл бұрын
Which video
@JacobMerrill11 жыл бұрын
Now you need to start making photobioreactors and solar gasifiers from sand :D this + roman concrete = permaculture
@kayaking4autism13 жыл бұрын
@gerwazjana No. 3D printers can only print one type of material at a time. Different temperatures of melting point. How can you print motors? Even if you could print the iron, you still need to magnetize it. Even if you could print the copper, how do you print the next layer of insulation over the copper? If you print the copper over insulation you melt the insulation, if you print iron into copper wire, you melt the wire. If you print silicon chips, you'll burn the board
@BillEmison11 жыл бұрын
Thx for sharing - very innovative application!
@peterantal112 жыл бұрын
now it's clear! pyramids were also 3D printed... somehow similarly
@JeffErnst23 Жыл бұрын
It's such a shame this this wasn't ever scaled up
@aoeu2566 жыл бұрын
When it can self-replicate it can grow in number exponentially and help terraform Mars, demonetizing housing, manufacturing, energy, and even computational power. To make it easier for it to 3D print itself, * all of the parts should be composed of small lego bricks that can be 3D printed from sand then assembled by a robot hand (although maybe at first with a human hand), * the moving 3D printer part only has to print a MOLD, and then through a tiny hole you can fill in the molten silica. This lets it self-replicate much much faster, and probably more accurately. Although, since most of the parts are hollow it might not be worth it for some parts. Perhaps the mold is best for printing the wheels and the fresnel lens. *You can then use maybe some quadcopters to move things and assemble the lego blocks. Maybe they can be powered with a beam from the fresnel lenses causing air to expand and compress. * Maybe use the robot hand or a strandabeest can be used to move the 3D printer, move the lenses, and move the arms in place. Move the beems in place. * Only a few computers are needed to control the 1 billion+ 3d PRINTERS, the 3D printers only need a radio receiver that tuned in so that a computer can tell it * there needs to be a way to ensure that the molding is more accurate perhaps have a higher temperature and then print the glass out through a thin head rather than directly melting the sand the wheels * this includes the fresnel lens which should be made of small fresnel lens connected together like lego blocks * the solar panel itself is made of several smaller modules that are connected together (just like the lego blocks making the 3D printer itself), but it uses silicon. Perhaps a dedicated 3D factory / 3D printed process is needed to build solar panels. One alternative to solar panels is salt water cells. * an ice printer might need less energy than a sand printer (making the fresnel lens of ice), so we can try to use that to terraform mars and europa.
@bitemaja7443 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know how hardy is the printed material? Is it fragile like glass or is it more like stone? Something in between?
@Reneeke97 жыл бұрын
I like how he´s pulling it through the sand in the beginning. Why?! Was there more sun in that spot? more sand? ahhahaha
@WillieStubbs8 жыл бұрын
could make wall panels that you lift up to make a house... I saw a video where a guy used a clear plastic sheet suspended high on a square wooden frame and added water to it... it made a great lens for focusing heat to cook with... could move the bed of sand and leave the water lens stationary.
@MelodyCraft_2 жыл бұрын
Damm I was planning on designing something like this
@ExtantFrodo212 жыл бұрын
You are stuck in a single 3dprinting paradigm. There are Ink Jet 3D Printers(IJ3DPs) as well. An incomplete list of materials used in IJ3DPs include conductors, semiconductors, insulators, OLEDs, piezoelectric components, plastic magnetics, optical components, human cells, .... Plus, you don't have to print the printer as a single print. You could print parts to be assembled or even print molds for casting parts that can't be printed or are cheaper not printed directly.
@3DGEM38 жыл бұрын
fantastic work
@tooosweeet12 жыл бұрын
I definitely agree this is not a realistic device for printing parts, course sand isn't a realistic medium either. It's useless for printing parts, but I think there is definite potential for autonomously building large base sized structures or monuments. As for EBM, it's used for metal alloys, not sand. Lasers wouldn't work either because the medium is so course and has a high melting temperature requiring a lot of power.
@remember25october9 жыл бұрын
One hell of a picnic.
@240SSONLY11 жыл бұрын
i am speechless...
@BubuMarimba2 жыл бұрын
that's inspiring!
@bogomir676 жыл бұрын
What if you make an autonomous machine that moves about, feeds sand automatically and prints something resembling lego blocks? Leave it in the desert for a year, then collect the blocks and build a house!
@coryt936 жыл бұрын
Amazing.
@rbfreitas4 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@abrhamtesfaye89332 жыл бұрын
very awesome and it's in 2011
@henrikmk13 жыл бұрын
@Domihork Print a glass shelter. :-)
@djimbavallinor30659 жыл бұрын
Very impressive Mr. Kayser.
@deanmav3571 Жыл бұрын
this is real technology
@ExtantFrodo212 жыл бұрын
IDK, I think the laser scintering metal additive 3dprinters are very nice indeed. A couple problems with his implementation are... 1) Manually applying each layer. This makes the process much slower than it need be. 2) Not doing it in a vacuum. This means the melt cools much too quickly and is more like tempered glass than annealed glass. I'd like to see how effective this would be on the moon making infrastructure for lunar habitats.
@genkidama73855 жыл бұрын
1:17 when you turn around and the focusing point is located on your physical body 🤣
@jasonl34453 жыл бұрын
Wonderful I wana try :)
@GPatrick1372 жыл бұрын
amazing !!
@FarmaanAli10 жыл бұрын
This is awesome. #sand #3d #printing
@bressan199811 жыл бұрын
impressionnant et complètement géniale!
@PyroChimp756 жыл бұрын
I love artists
@washragjoe13 жыл бұрын
Wow.... That's gonna lead to some awesome stuff!
@sebsignedup13 жыл бұрын
Truly great.
@frikkiesmit3272 жыл бұрын
Guy pulling machine... reminds me of a mad max movie the old ones