Print your own computer

[peroxidechicken]

Well, almost -

Another good Slashdot story.

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.  

[DanDude]

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

[The_Editor]

Now THERE'S an idea !!

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

[redrumloa]

Neat! Good for prototyping for sure!

[Quixote]

From the article:

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.

[downix]

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

[Tekoneiric]

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