Apis Cor 3D Prints a Fully Livable House

We have seen 3d printed buildings before but most of them were prototypes, built off-site or not used afterwords, but nothing compares to this house built by Apis Cor.

Apis Cor used a unique house 3d printing machine they developed and made an on-site house in 24 hours for the cost of some 10000 USD. It has surface of 38 square meters (409 square foot) and has been built in Stupino town, Moscow region, Russia.
The finished house is fully livable with all the appliances. Very cool!

Here is the very interesting presentation video:





Looks like 3d printing houses is a technology that has fully matured now. It will have interesting effects on housing market.

Source news post with full technical details:

http://apis-cor.com/en/about/news/first-house

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3D printable Mars rover robot from Russia

Misha Larkin from Russia published his version of 3d printable Mars rover robot. It looks great. It was printed on XYZ daVinci.




All files and instructions can be found at:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1318414

You can see a different version here:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2015/03/3d-printed-rc-mars-rover-robot.html

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Picaso 3d Designer 3d printer from Russia

New Russian 3d printer by Picaso 3d.

Technical specifications:

• Build volume of 200 x 200 x 200mm
• Layer size of 0.05mm
• Minimum wall thickness of 0.19mm
• Standalone machine using USB or SD card gcode input
• Two nozzles sizes, 0.30 and 0.15mm
• Display panel to monitor print operations
• Enclosed heated build chamber to minimize ABS warping effects (they probably don't care about patents that big western corporations have on heated chamber technology)
• Automatic calibration of the print bed
• Russian-specific software interface
• Price: RUB 99,000, or USD 3,000.

http://picaso-3d.ru/

Here is video by TixTri in Russian language that shows both Picaso 3d models:  Builder and focuses on Designer.

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