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ShopBot helps build the home of the future!

This Fall 2013, a team comprised of software engineers and designers from Colorado and Massachusetts, architects from the UK, and some ShopBotting digital fabbers from Virginia got together and built a house.  In two days.

A digital architectural illustration of a wooden structure showing a large main building with tables and laptops inside, and a smaller area on the left for additional activities. A woman and a child are walking towards the building while a person is working at a table in the background.

Thousands of visitors to the World Maker Faire in NYC walked around inside it and checked it out, and learned about the easy-to-use software employed to design the house — up to 50 or 60 people at a time — and they were suitably amazed at how a structure built with almost NO screws, and no nails at all, would be so simple, elegant and sturdy! And then when the Faire was over, the team took down the house… ready to be put up again.

Read the full story about the Wikihouse/Sketchup/ShopBot collaboration at 100kGarages.com.