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Title: Print your own computer
Post by: peroxidechicken on October 27, 2003, 03:53:43 PM

Well, almost -

Another good Slashdot story (http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/27/0418209.shtml?tid=126&tid=137&tid=159&tid=186).

ABCNews is reporting on a small, New York based company that is now using and creating a technique of printing circuits directly onto paper with conductive inks.  

Title: Re: Print your own computer
Post by: DanDude on October 27, 2003, 05:47:31 PM

I've heard about this for a while now.  Making your computer on dual or multiple sheets of paper slapped together.  Heh, build an electronic bomb for Bill Gate's mailbox!   :-D

Title: Re: Print your own computer
Post by: The_Editor on October 27, 2003, 06:27:07 PM

Now THERE'S an idea !!

message could be  .. " Welcome to YOUR B.S.O.D."

Title: Re: Print your own computer
Post by: redrumloa on October 27, 2003, 07:06:22 PM

Neat! Good for prototyping for sure!

Title: Re: Print your own computer
Post by: Quixote on October 27, 2003, 07:26:39 PM

From the article:

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Several companies, like Seiko Epson of Japan and E Ink Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., are working on printing bendable computer displays on paper essentially computer monitors that you can roll up and fit in your pocket.

:-? How about animated banners, to be carried by protestors, etc.?  Or a movie scteen that rolls up just like Grandpa's old projection screen?  Or animated wallpaper for your home?  A different pattern every day, if you like.

Title: Re: Print your own computer
Post by: downix on October 27, 2003, 08:20:57 PM

puts a new twist on paper specs, doesn't it?

Title: Re: Print your own computer
Post by: Tekoneiric on October 28, 2003, 06:24:14 AM

No doubt! In fall '98, my girlfriend and I went to the NASA open house in Houston. They had a prototyping plotter which would lay down conductors, insulators and drill holes on standard blank PCB boards.

If anyone has the chance to goto a NASA open house, I would highly suggest it. It's very interesting. I even got the chance to see one of those laser prototyping machines. We still have resin models of the X38 emergency return vehicles they were giving away. They printed hundreds of them on the machine.

It really sucks that they never adopted the inflatable TransHab for space station modules. Safety up there would have been increased big time.

Andrea