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Pks in umuahia, Abia state.

Looks like i'll have to consider spliting the offer into percentages.

In my humble opinion, i think the best bussines to invest in, is the robot that builds a house from ground level to the roofing level without human involvment.
The details are here; www.nairaland.com/2217438/sponsor-me-build-3d-house

To build a house, the 3D printer uses only Bricks and mortar (mixture of cement, sand and water).

To build a house, the 3D printer uses only Bricks and mortar (mixture of cement, sand and water).

To build a house, the 3D printer uses only Bricks and mortar (mixture of cement, sand and water).

Ezedon:
Story, could this be CHANGE

Offcourse it is.

ogatimon:
What material would it work with? plastic or clay?

Bricks and mortar (mixture of cement, sand and water)

The project is all about building a 3D house printing machine.
This machine is going to be the first 3D house printer to be built in Nigeria..
This machine will be capable of building a family sized house.
Suffice to say that, this 3D machine would yield nice bussiness prospects.
Seeing as Nigeria is a developing country, houses are being built everyday but manually by hand.. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a machine do that. The advantages sticks out like a boil.
It would cause an amazing reduction in the capital needed to build a house. Which will allow those with a very low income to own a house.
The little time its going to take to erect a building, will be promising in areas with a natural disaster, because it wouldnt take long to put up large number of buildings to shelter displaced persons.
it will also create direct employment in the area of building a plant to mass produce the machine.
The exact amount that would be enough to build this huge machine, up to a working prototype is $5000 (1 million naira).


www.nairaland.com/2217438/sponsor-me-build-3d-house

The name of such a machine is called a 3D house printing machine, it is going to be the first 3D house printer to be built in Nigeria..
This machine will be capable of building a family sized house.
Suffice to say that, this 3D machine would yield nice bussiness prospects.
Seeing as Nigeria is a developing country, houses are being built everyday but manually by hand.. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a machine do that. The advantages sticks out like a boil.
It would cause an amazing reduction in the capital needed to build a house. Which will allow those with a very low income to own a house.
The little time its going to take to erect a building, will be promising in areas with a natural disaster, because it wouldnt take long to put up large number of buildings to shelter displaced persons.
it will also create direct employment in the area of building a plant to mass produce the machine.
The exact amount that would be enough to build this huge machine, up to a working prototype is $5000 (1 million naira).


www.nairaland.com/2217438/sponsor-me-build-3d-house

The name of this type of machine is called a 3D house printer. It is going to be the first 3D house printer to be built in Nigeria..
The 3D printer machine will be capable of building a family sized bungalow in a single day, starting from german floor level to roofing level without the direct involvement of human labour ...
The isn't to build an entire house without the involvement of human labour, it would just do the laying of bricks using motar to hold them, just like the conventional way used by bricklayers to lay bricks..
Here's how it would operate in real life; the foundation would be dug by human labour and the necessary blocks placed in place,then the floor casted. The machine would then start operation from here, which is the casted floor. It would lay each block one at a time whilst squirting concret at the right places. It will do this operation all round, untill a 1st couche has been established. It then move up a bit, return to the starting point and repeat the sequence again. It does this untill it gets to the roofing height level. At this level, it will stop the operation. Human labour would then take up from there, doing the necessary fittings, plumbings, wirings and roofings etc.

Suffice to say that, this 3D machine would yield nice bussiness prospects.
Seeing as Nigeria is a developing country, houses are being built everyday but manually by hand, not to consider the time it takes to erect a single house... It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a machine do that.
The advantages sticks out like a boil.
It would cause an amazing reduction in the capital needed to build a house by 30% to 40%. Which will allow those with a very low income to own a house.
The little time its going to take to erect a building, will be promising in areas with a natural disaster, because it wouldnt take long to put up large number of buildings to shelter displaced persons.
it will also create direct employment in the area of building a plant to mass produce the machine.
It has been estimated that the exact amount needed to build this huge machine, up to a working prototype is $5000 (1 million naira).
The technical details and its operation is elaborately explained in the link below, sponsors are being sought for as well.
www.nairaland.com/2217438/sponsor-me-build-3d-house

The pix below is how the machine will look like.

The name of this type of machine is called a 3D house printer. It is going to be the first 3D house printer to be built in Nigeria..
The 3D printer machine will be capable of building a family sized bungalow in a single day, starting from german floor level to roofing level without the direct involvement of human labour ...
The isn't to build an entire house without the involvement of human labour, it would just do the laying of bricks using motar to hold them, just like the conventional way used by bricklayers to lay bricks..
Here's how it would operate in real life; the foundation would be dug by human labour and the necessary blocks placed in place,then the floor casted. The machine would then start operation from here, which is the casted floor. It would lay each block one at a time whilst squirting concret at the right places. It will do this operation all round, untill a 1st couche has been established. It then move up a bit, return to the starting point and repeat the sequence again. It does this untill it gets to the roofing height level. At this level, it will stop the operation. Human labour would then take up from there, doing the necessary fittings, plumbings, wirings and roofings etc.

Suffice to say that, this 3D machine would yield nice bussiness prospects.
Seeing as Nigeria is a developing country, houses are being built everyday but manually by hand, not to consider the time it takes to erect a single house... It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a machine do that.
The advantages sticks out like a boil.
It would cause an amazing reduction in the capital needed to build a house by 30% to 40%. Which will allow those with a very low income to own a house.
The little time its going to take to erect a building, will be promising in areas with a natural disaster, because it wouldnt take long to put up large number of buildings to shelter displaced persons.
it will also create direct employment in the area of building a plant to mass produce the machine.
It has been estimated that the exact amount needed to build this huge machine, up to a working prototype is $5000 (1 million naira).
The technical details and its operation is elaborately explained in the link below, sponsors are being sought for as well.
www.nairaland.com/2217438/sponsor-me-build-3d-house

@ uchenageme
Thanks for the offer.. Noted.

Lately, i've been trying to look ahead of time by making pre-inform choices on the metal parts that would be needed.
It is a very vital decision because 90% of the 3D printer will be fabricated from metals. These include steel, copper, aluminum and bronze.
1% would consist of the electronics, 6% the would constitute the plastic hose and cement tank, while 2% would consit of the sillicon coated wires.

millhouse:
IS IT STILL OPEN?

Offcourse, it is for now..

It's time we get to see some change in the building industry.

miredia:
Send me an email miredia7@gmail.com. Cheers!!

Ok, will do that...

I've been getting quite some response, but we are still at the enquiry stage. No full comittment from anyone yet.

The full blueprint and technical details of the 3D printer is up to date. I am quite aware of the fact that some people would really need to see the full technical details of the machine to understand the feasibility... It is therefore imperative to state here that: i have already said alot about the technical details of the printer. Suffice to say that, the 3D printer has alot of novel features that differentiates it from existing 3D printers protected by international patent laws. So it can be patented as well.. The urge to divulge more informations about the printer strikes me always, but i can't divulge more.. But i shall try to explain the logics behind its operation in a simple way as much as i can..

arbitrage:
If so, my previous question is whether you know sellers of those parts you can get cheaper rate from or there are sellers of those parts (not complete patented machine) outside the country you can refer investor(s) to purchase them for you?

I know sellers of those parts i can get at cheaper rate, i also can refer investor(s) to purchase them for me.
30% of the items would be bought outside the country, and 70% would be bought here.

arbitrage:
Is that your plan to buy parts and build from scratch?

Yes, my plan is to buy parts and build from scratch. The parts that i won't be building from scratch are: the stepper motors, stepper driver and the microcontroller.

tafrica:
OP, I wish I could help. Your project is really interesting and a product of genius.
Has any partner surfaced?

No partner has surfaced yet.

@op, since it wasn't your compilation and you stated the source, i would say: so they think..

In this project, i am estimating roughly 1 million naira to be the cost of building it up to a full working prototype.
Here's the breakdown of the amounts and the materials that will be purchase:
350,000naira would be used to acquire 18pcs of small, medium and large stepper motors, 18pcs of stepper drivers, 6pcs of microcontrollers..
100,000naira would be used to buy an oxacetylene welder and a Tig welder machines.
50,000naira would be used to acquire a laptop for programing the machine.
Then 400,000naira would be use to buy the iron steels, e.g steel rails, steel girders, steel pipes of various sizes.
Then 100,000naira would be used for miscallaneous.

With 3D house printer in mind. I've taken my time to study bricklayers while they are on the job. I got to note the time it takes to lay a single block using concrete. The result seems to vary from individual to individual. I've measured anywhere from 4 minutes, 3 minutes to 2 minutes for a single block layed. And i consider this a huge waste of time considering ...
the amount of blocks needed to build a house.
What i am trying to convey here, is a way to reduce the time it takes to lay each block to a time frame of 6 or 7 seconds per block.
The relatively long time it takes to erect a building by manual labour is evident enough to indicate a huge waste in time.
The 3D machine would be a cool solution to that. Lets take an example where 500 blocks was to be layed a manual labour, at the rate of 3 minutes per block. Then it would take 25 hours to do just that.
With my 3D house printer, laying each block at the rate of 6 seconds per block, it would take just 25 minutes to lay 500 blocks with concrete. Nice time recovered.
The market opportunity for this project is so large, because houses are continually bein built all the time, irrespective of the location. The project touches almost every life that wants to build a house.
With the rates estates and houses are springing up here and there. When we're fully into the market, the demand will be so high that even with a hundred 3D machines at our disposals, there would still be alot of clients on the waiting list.
The current market cannot be described as stagnant, neither can it be described as dwindling. Building takes place every day, every hour, every minutes, probably all the time. We can capture a gread deal of the market with the reduced time frame of building a house and the reduced price as a dangling bait. The only barrier to that, is gaining access to the capital that will move this project off the blueprint stage and into a working prototype.
The only competitors in the market is the Southern Californian Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis, whose 3D machine is undergoing laboratory test, and the Chinese firm Winson that went commercial with there 3d house printer in 2014.
These aforementioned printers share one thing in common; they use fast drying concretes and dont use pre made blocks to print a house.. Some houses are cast as a single piece while some are built by laying blocks and using concrete to hold them..
There might arise the need to print a house using blocks and non fast-driying concrete. This is where Professor Behrokh and Winsun's machine would fail to deliver. And this is where where my 3D printer would come handy.
You dont gain everyones trust when you tell them that you are going to print a house for them, when they know you will be using fast drying concret's, and a contour crafting technology, because it's in its infancy. But you can some reasonable amount of trust when you tell them that you are going to print a house for them, and they happen to know that you will be using the the conventional and traditionaly tried and tested method; by using concrete to lay blocks one after the other.
In my humble opinion, i think these factors would allow us to gain sustain and grow in the market.
The ability of the 3D printer to grip blocks, cut them if necessary and place them in the desired position, would be what makes this machine unique compared to its competitors.
The product can be mass produce if deemed so, and sold to the public. Or it can be leased out to other construction companies and real estate developers.

The next command would be to withdraw, and so on and so on.

Next command:
{8}Activate pump B.
This command will cause pump B to pump ont concrete so as to fille the gap. The gap is importatnt because it is the place where the concrete holds the two blocks toger.
The pix below shows the left pump B on, and the right pump A off.

Next command:
(7) Drop a block.
The pix below shows that.

Next command:
(6) Squirt cement @ length (100cm)
No need to explain what this command will do.
The pix below shows the smeared concrete, covering a length of 100cm.

Next command:
(5) Move x axis (+) @ (60)cm.
This command will shift the header 60cm in the x axis. In the pix below, the header has shifted to the right, at a length of 60cm. Since the length of the previous block is 50cm, there will be a gap of 10cm.

Next command:
(4) Withdraw headear.
This command will withdraw the arm. The pix below illustrate that.

The next command:
(2) cut block @ (50)cm
This command will cut the block at a length of 50cm.
Next command.
(3) Drop block.
This command will make an arm to grip the block inside the header, shoving it downward to come to rest on top of the smeared concrete. At the sides of the grips are two pumps,A and B. By the sides of both pumps are four rectangular plates called R plate. Two for each pump . Whenever any of these pumps are turned on, it is this plates that stops the concrete from running out of a gap.
The pix below shows the machine droping a block.