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Command number one.
(1) Squirt cement @ length (50cm).
If i write only this command on the programe and click an option called 'convert'. The programme will convert the command into codes that are valid for an arduino. When these codes are uploaded into the arduino and a button pressed, the machine would squirt concrete on the floor at a length of 50cm. Just like the pix below. Note that: the bracked letters are the variables.

Now on to the programme.
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This programme will take simple commands and convert it into codes that the arduino will understand, so it will be easier for me to tell the machine how to build the walls.
The programe will have a series of commands that can be called up.
The command below will be the first command i shall be starting with. Note: some of this commands have bracketed letters. The bracketed letters there mean that anything inside the brackets are variables. It means you will have to provide the information for the arduino to execute that command.

Now, to start the operation, the machine will begin at the pre default position. The pre default position is the position the header of the machine is brought to, at the beginning of a building. This position can be anywhere you choose to begin the building, as the instructor of the programme..
In the picture below, i am showing where the header will begin. This position is assumed to be my predefault position.

nennin:
can one tonne of uncracked equal to one tonne of cracked one?

No, one tonne of uncracked palmkernel nut can't equal to one tonne of cracked one.

nennin:
if you sell uncracked 50k how much will you sell cracked one?

they sell uncracked one 75k if you don't know.

Some people have called me and have been asking if i meant cracked palmkernel..
Please note; i don't source for palmkernel seed (pks). I only source for uncracked palmkernel nut (pkn).

Some one called me and was asking if i meant cracked palmkernel..
Please note; i don't source for palmkernel seed (pks). I only source for uncracked palmkernel nut (pkn).

Some one called me and was asking if i meant cracked palmkernel..
Please note; i don't source for palmkernel seed (pks). I only source for uncracked palmkernel nut (pkn).

Adulphus:
[size=28pt]Do You Also Supply FFB?
URGENT ANSWER NEEDED[/size]

what do you mean by FFB?

We are based in Abia state.. We can source up to 30tons or 40tons of pkn or more, depending on your demand. We sell at 30,000naira per ton.. But you will have to come down to Abia state to take it..

You can reach us on; kingsleyobinna26@yahoo.Com or call;
07015387845

We are based in Abia state.. We can source up to 30tons of pkn or more, depending on your demand. We intend to cut the lots of middle-men in the trade, that's why we are putting the offer at a cheaper price. We sell at 20,000naira per ton.. But you will have to come down to Abia state and take it..

You can reach us on; kingsleyobinna26@yahoo.Com or call;
07015387845

We are based in Abia state.. We can source up to 30tons of pkn for you at a cheaper price. We sell at 30,000naira per ton.. But you will have to come down to Abia state and take it..

You can reach us on; kingsleyobinna26@yahoo.Com or call;
07015387845

I am in Abia state.. I can source 20tons or 30tons for you at a cheaper price. I sell 50,000naira per ton.. But you will have to come down to Abia state and take it..

You can reach me on; kingsleyobinna26@yahoo.Com or
07015387845

Amisec:
Can you do a simulation showing how it works.


Thanks

Owing to the cost of simulation lately, am sorry i can't afford to do a simulation now. It is way too costly.

Amisec:
and pipe plumbing?.

It also doesn't do plumbing, and wouldn't do so in the future upgrades .

Amisec:
What about plastering?

It doesn't do plastering for now, but that would definitely be added as an upgrade in the near future..

Amisec:
what about interlocking blocks where you don't need much cementing?

The 3D doesn't handle such blocks for now. It might be reconsidered and added in the second model.

Amisec:
I think am interested, what kind of block, holow?

Nope, it doesn't handle hollow blocks for now, but in the near future it would be upgraded to handle hollow blocks..

AAinEqGuinea:
Both USC's and China's implementation use a cement-like bond for the entire foundation of a structure instead of bricks or blocks, why do you think USC and China choice viscosity over bricks or blocks as the sole foundation element? We have to assume USC and China considered the traditional brick or block approach and dismissed it.

In every 3D house printers, the operation starts by drawing the house in a CAD. The CAD then converts this into G-codes. This G-code is a language in which people tell computerized machine tools how to make something. The how, is defined by instructions on where to move, how fast to move, and through what path to move.
To cap it all; for the USC and China to build a 3D house printer that would be laying bricks, chucking mortar where necessary and knowing if a brick is due to be cut and to what length, would require a modification in the universaly accepted G-codes, and would require alot of sensors and feedback system.
USC and China choiced viscosity over bricks or blocks as the sole foundation element because they saw it would be very very easy to do it that, without requiring any feedback and sensors. Mind you, theirs are patented. So you can't make a copy of what they just did.

AAinEqGuinea:
I'd like to know what distinctive vision and key features for this project will distinguish it from USC and China?
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The distinctive vision and key features that will distinguish this project is the ability to build a house in the traditional way..

arbitrage:
One more thing, what is the legal framework going to be like as per whether the business will be running in your company name or the investor's or as a 50/50 joint venture to be registered in the two names?

The legal framework of the business is going to be running as a 50/50 joint venture, to be registered in the two names.

arbitrage:
Finally, how do we work together on this considering that you are Abia/Abuja based while I am in Lagos?

You will have to come over to Abia every now and then, or But if you prefer it to be done in Lagos, then i will need where to stay, for i don't have some one in Lagos.

arbitrage:
Seeing those cost breakdowns, are there particular sellers you can refer investor to, to purchase them within or outside the country? Or rather can you get them cheaper if you source for them?

There are no particular sellers for now. There's no 3D house printer that's up for sale lately. Even the Chinese firm Winsun don't sell theirs, they only use it to build for customers..

arbitrage:
The Californian professor's can build a complete house in one day. How long will yours take considering the fact that you are using hollow blocks that may require manual feeding into your machine?

Even though the blocks are going to be fed to the machine in a semi manual manner, it would take a day. And i wouldn't be using a hollow block..

arbitrage:
Back to plumbing, how do you handle conduit plumbing on the y- vertical axis of the building since it's not only on the bottom smeared German floor you will have plumbing lines as you have done at the set up of gantry base initially?

I didnt mean plumbing as in; laying conduit pipes. I meant the plumb that is used to keep an object perfectly vertical.

arbitrage:
Will this machine be able to handle structures that require curvy architectural design or it's only straight faced 4 corner buildings?

It will be able to handle structures that require curvy architectural design because the header isn't fix, it can rotate 360 degrees.

arbitrage:
With those four R plates stopping the falling of concrete flow from pumps A and B, what will ensure the same pumped concrete is not being wasted into the internal hollow of the block considering the discharge pressure of the pumps?

We wouldn't be using hollow blocks. So the motar doesn't have any place to fall out from.

arbitrage:
Will the machine have compartment for storing and mixing concretes to be smeared or a bricklayer must first manually mix gravel and cement, which the machine will scoop up and use?

A bricklayer must first mix sand and cement with a cement mixer, then pour it into a special tank. It is from this tank that the motar are pumped to the various nozzle.

arbitrage:
Since your machine is not like the Californian professor's, does it mean each building project site will have to purchase building blocks first, which will be stored inside your machine for deployment as the arduino code executes?

Nope. Each building site don't need to purchase their own build blocks. It would be part of the contract. We will have to cast our own the building blocks. Unless they already have their own building blocks and choose to.

I did too. Could only view its offline service because there server uses some kind of cloud service.
But you don't call it crash, the server was just down.

AAinEqGuinea:
But leveling would be a challenge that we can start confronting as well as many others, computationally.

Leveling won't be much of a problem. If you can recall correctly, i said; that the gantry would slide along rails. These two rails are similar to the rails you see on a railway station.
So before the 3D printer is erected, the rails are first laid, plumbed and secured to the ground with the necessary clevis..
The movement of the gantry along this rail is a leveled movent because the rails are leveled, so that solves the problem of the blocks being leveled..
When the machine is in operation laying blocks, the only condition that would cause an unleveled movement is when the command to move in the y axis (the up and down movement) is called up by the software uploaded into the arduino..

AAinEqGuinea:
The computation challenge is building on both axis at a defined length and ensuring straightness on vast scale in automation with the assistance of a mechanical component. If this is a non-issue, let me know..

Offcourse, it is a none issue. Not in the slightest.
What i just need, is for us to begin talking about how to generate pulses in one of the pins of an arduino with the necessary codes. After that, we proceed and you write a programe that would convert a pre-defined word and variable, into the above code. The variable would be the number of times to pulse the pin. How about that..