On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:34:33AM +0200, Peter wrote:
> 
> There is a contest on too, up to $30k prizes.
> 
> http://www.mattgilliland.com/

Wow, and here's me getting all excited about a simple hammer receipt
printer with a possible parallel interface that I found...

I could make some really nifty art with that, 3d surface printers
anyone? Or perhaps printing ink onto sensitised light-developing
PCB-like substrates, the trick being, with proper 3d control of the
print head, the substrate can be a curved surface and you'd end up with
circuits built onto 3d objects. That technology has been done, but not
in that manner, nor anywhere near as potentially cheap.

Hexapods are a nice way to get relatively cheap 3d machining. They
suffer from their flexibility, and are hard to keep ridged enough for
real machining, but I think they'd be fine for something as low pressure
as squirting ink.

Just gotta find some way to plate copper onto arbetrary surfaces that
can withstand the soldering...

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