Super cool that these are actually happening! I read about them a lot while researching modern sail ships but it’s hard to tell if new tech like this is really happening until they build it.

That makes sense to me - the word yacht might be implying too much a certain use case (it’s the name of a class of vessel but I think it also says ‘rich people toy’ on first impression). But house boats have been around for a long time and when they’re someone’s primary residence they sometimes represent a cheaper model of living, not unlike a mobile home. An airship houseboat is an interesting idea, I think it showed up at the end of Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway.

This is a great concept - it would actually fit my use case for my home printer (use rarely, don’t need it to be perfect) pretty well.

That said, it looks like form factor will be a challenge - the RITI example has tall hoppers sticking out the top, so we’d need printers with similar form factor so it could be cut up.

The firmware would probably have to be replaced so it can manage the different ‘ink’ (different viscosity than stock firmware would expect, etc).

Considering some of the crazy hacks people have pulled off, I don’t doubt it can be done. But the scope (hardware and software mods in one project) probably puts it out of my reach