Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo.
Markus Kayser's Solar Sinter project is a printer that uses solar power as raw energy to heat up sand and form 3D glass objects. A laser cutter is also powered by solar energy.
Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and triggers dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource - the sun.
The video above shows the project being tested in the Egyptian desert where sand and sun are both abundant.
Link - Via Boing Boing
Please...he fused some sand together at best...since I am skeptical about how the heat could have penetrated down a foot into the sand.
Nice first try, I hope it didn't cost too much.
I want to burn your snarky uneducated comment with a magnifying glass.