This from the person who built his own castle

Jan 29, 2015 16:12 GMT  ·  By

If you thought the plans for the full-scale 3D printed village were off the wall, wait until you learn what Andrey Rudenko's mind is cooking up now.

The man who built a castle and is using a 3D printer to build his own 2-story house is not just designing a fantasy village.

He is also proposing that his concrete $200,000 / €176,000 3D printer be used in the creation of buildings and settlements in the desert.

Moreover, he claims that his technology can be employed to construct bases on the Moon, where the soil, that thick layer of powder, is even less stable than desert sand.

Rudenko is working on a new 3D printer to that end, one that will be able to use Moon dust instead of concrete to get things rolling.

He is not the first that proposes such an approach, but he is one of the most daring people lobbying for this. It will be interesting to see how he solves the whole microgravity problem.

The Moon Printer will supposedly use solar energy for power and a selective laser sintering technology to fuse the soil powder together, one layer at a time, thus creating habitable structures with no weak points or punctures.

The printer that will do this on Earth from desert sand will double as a test run of his Moon Printer design. He just needs NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Russia's Roscosmos or China Space Agency to offer their backing.

If he doesn't get it, he'll pack up his printer and go to Dubai to showcase a better demo until someone takes interest.