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# Literal world-building with sand-spraying robot for your real-life Minecraft ambitions.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/soil-literal-world-building-sand-spraying-robot/
- Published: 2012-08-07T20:31:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:58:09.000Z
- Description: The shovel, the pale, and the subsequent sandcastle seem to fade into antiquity in light of this world-building robot, running on nothing but the humble sun—and a laptop. The Stone Spray Project, in its early stages, mixes a liquid binding compound and sand to sculp arches or stools over scaffolding
- Author: Kent Szlauderbach
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

The shovel, the pale, and the subsequent sandcastle seem to fade into antiquity in light of this world-building robot, running on nothing but the humble sun—and a laptop. The Stone Spray Project, in its early stages, mixes a liquid binding compound and sand to sculp arches or stools over scaffolding, but the idea is to eventually build human-scale structures—just like the time before the massive, world-mining forgings of iron, brick, and steel. The team writes on their homepage:

> “We want to push further the boundaries of digital manufacturing and explore the possibilities of an on-site fabrication machine.”

The virtual sandboxes of *Minecraft* or *From Dust*, if not more modest ancient civilizations, look like blueprints for the world this robot inspires us to build. [After all, will land-art become utility?](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/essays/altered-appreciation/?ref=killscreen.com)