Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 11
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. Week 11 As we swung into the final week on site, we were excited to be printing some larger […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 10
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. Week 10 We are doing lots of mixing in preparation for the bigger items we’ll be printing next week, […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 9
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. Week 9 The week started really well, with a great weather forecast for the entire week which was amazing. […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 8
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. Week 8 This week was mainly focused on preparing for a visit from Dr Riccardo Madalenna from Cardiff University, […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 7
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. Week 7 The week started off with more technical problems with the robot, which wasn’t recognising the programmes we […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 6
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. Week 6 The main challenge this week was the Teach Pendant. Having already had to replace the touch screen […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 5
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. WEEK 5 Rain has played a big part in curtailing our printing schedule this week, and sadly when water […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 4
Founder, Gayle Parsons, sums up the Summer Print week by week. WEEK 4 This week we continued to prepare material, grinding earth and creating a large store of sieved earth […]
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 3
After the last 2 weeks of full-on learning we dialled down the pace a little this week.
3 volunteers joined us, Izzy, Kathryn, and Basama, all young women aged between 16 and 24, eager to learn more about the project and willing to help us with the laborious process of preparing the earth for printing.
The prep process involves breaking up the excavated earth, putting it into a grinder, sieving it through a metal mesh to reduce it down to 3mm aggregate size, and then wheelbarrowing it into a storage area.
Earth Build Project – Summer Print 2025 – Week 2
This week has been exhausting! Learning how to programme the robot in the computer languages Rhino and Grasshopper does’t come easy starting from scratch!
We were joined by the wonderful Nestor, a member of staff from one of our strategic partners, the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) who patiently led a week of training for 5 of our core team members – Myself, Megan, Tom, Adam, and Tabitha – each with different degrees of robotic expertise, varying from none at all to expert.