07-03-2014, 06:28 AM
There is a US professor that has been working on this for well over a decade and is still at a fraction of the size the Chinese have achieved.
http://www.contourcrafting.org/
He wants to try a 1/4 scale demonstration later this year. The gantry is designed to be taken down, and reused over and over. In collapsed form, it could probably fit in a shipping container.
The OP is kind of dated (in this area, one day is dated). The Chinese are rapidly advancing. It will be just another case where the US may have been first but are dead last to get it out of the laboratory, or never, eventually losing any potential market that may have been there.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
http://www.contourcrafting.org/
He wants to try a 1/4 scale demonstration later this year. The gantry is designed to be taken down, and reused over and over. In collapsed form, it could probably fit in a shipping container.
The OP is kind of dated (in this area, one day is dated). The Chinese are rapidly advancing. It will be just another case where the US may have been first but are dead last to get it out of the laboratory, or never, eventually losing any potential market that may have been there.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*