Mars Outpost 01

**Update:** Well now that it’s over I can add a few things I forgot about and clarify a few things that I wasn’t able to because time ran out (I swear the original deadline was 1159AM not PM or I would have made these corrections).

This is my design for the MakerBot Mars Base Challenge. This is actually based off a concept I came up with 14 years ago! I used the basic design and built on it.

**The Structure** stands five stories high. It would be built by a modified type of SLS (selective laser sintering) printing in which the rover(s) could be equipped with a high powered laser or, if feasible, a system that would use the sun’s rays focused through Fresnel lenses or a large parabolic lens split into a variable length line and use an LCD array on the lens(es) to act as the on/off switch and the rover would act as the “print head”. The tread would be designed to be interchangeable and the primary one for construction would least disturb the material under it. It would a