"E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu)

MikeChino writes: Your next house could snap together like a jigsaw puzzle without the use of any power tools. Clemson University students designed and built Indigo Pine, a carbon-neutral house that exists largely as a set of digital files that can be e-mailed to a wood shop anywhere in the world, CNC cut, and then assembled on-site in a matter of days. “Indigo Pine has global application,” says the Clemson team. “Because the house exists largely as a set of digital files, the plans can be sent anywhere in the world, constructed using local materials, adapted to the site, and influenced by local culture.”

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any old blueprint can be emailed

[Anonymous Coward]

And you'd think anyone with access to a laser cutter would have access to nails.

Re:How do they know it's "carbon neutral"?

[willworkforbeer]

“Because the house exists largely as a set of digital files, the plans can be sent anywhere in the world, constructed using local materials, adapted to the site, and influenced by local culture.”

Geez, don't know what it's going to be made of yet they still claim it's "carbon neutral".

It just means all the carbon parts are painted beige.