"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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Snap-tite isn't new

[BitZtream]

It just sucks, and its why all your snap-tite models fall apart and you end up using model glue on them anyway.

Some things are not meant to be put together in a half-ass flimsy way so the first strong breeze shakes it loose.

Good job Clemson, you caught up to what Testes was doing 80 years ago.

Not exactly sure why they think that architects don't use digital files for any house that gets built. The paper plans you see are for the builders who aren't carrying a fragile computer around the job site.

Perhaps we should require that professors who work at these universities have some sort of actual real world experience on an ongoing regular basis so they don't repeat the same shit 12 year olds were doing before they were born.