Mass Minifacturing - 3D Printing thread

[Sparky]

Draw and fold working circuitry with the silver-ink pen

Surely the ultimate, wantable badge of the Übergeek

Posted in PCs & Chips, 29th June 2011 09:20 GMT

Top boffins in Illinois have invented a truly joyous piece of kit: a pen full of silver ink which can be used to draw functioning electronic circuitry on paper, wood (including – of course – breadboards) and other suitable surfaces.

"Pen-based printing allows one to construct electronic devices 'on-the-fly'," says Jennifer Lewis, one of the engineering profs who came up with the new pen at Illinois uni. "This is an important step toward enabling desktop manufacturing (or personal fabrication) using very low cost, ubiquitous printing tools."

Outwardly a normal rollerball, the pen is filled with a solution of silver which dries after drawing to leave a functioning electronic pathway. Better still, the inky circuit path is flexible, allowing the surface it is drawn on to be deformed or folded without affecting performance. A little origami added to one's drafting skills allows creation of 3D or multi-level devices.

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http://www.gizmag.com/inkjet-printing-c ... lls/19057/

then print the solar cells to power it on the printer you printed.

[Tinker]

http://vimeo.com/25401444

Solar powered 3D printer sucks up sand to make glass objects.

[Demon of Undoing]

[Tinker]

Just so Demon. That is precisely the sort of breakthrough I've been expecting any day now. It just goes to show that some committed guys in their basement lab will be able to create a great many things.

[Demon of Undoing]

I understand Kurzweil to mean that humanity will at some point lose the ability to process reality without enhanced abilities, primarily through AI. I would contend that day has already arrived and we just don't know it.

In 25 years, Brevik will print up an Alpha strike.

[Tinker]

[noddy]

been chasing this stuff up whilst im stuck indoors with the flu and the rain is pounding.

there is a completely open source set of designs for these at http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page and once you have bought the first one you can then print more for your friends.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Buyers_Guide has the list of outlets, they are between 1 or 2 grand US depending on model.

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[YMix]

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[Demon of Undoing]

Tinker, I've only gone shopping for blood vessels once in my life...

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[Demon of Undoing]

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Not a disciple, but they have a good hivemind in a few narrow subjects. The pop culture there is almost totally sophomoric shit.

Science and photography, also two notable subreddits.

FN:Now, someone want to tell me what will happen to design, architecture, the feng shui of everyday life, the shibumi of our surroundings, when we can create and re-assimilate the most intricate of three dimensional art, on a whim, repainting our lives with even the most trivial changes? Yes, it could become the aesthetic equivalent of people Twittering what they are eating for breakfast. Or maybe somebody that would otherwise never live with art a day in his life might see a cool something like this online and print it up like a .pdf. Maybe he looks into the art of dia de los muertos, and connects with some peace he never had. What are the downstreams of little implications like that? And this is trivial, trivial stuff. You have any idea what happens when someone like me @ 16 can print, um , most anything interesting, for nearly free?



Your sanity is the suitcase.

[YMix]

[Tinker]

[YMix]

Yep.

[Tinker]

Proscribed Printables

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/0 ... ables.html





AR-15 mags.

[Demon of Undoing]

America is impervious to physical occupation in part because an insurrection larger than any in armed history can occur overnight. The dispersion of firearms means that the American people are already at the same level of preparation to repel invaders as the Iraqi people were after prisons were let out and neighborhood thugs were offered access to the ammo dump ( notable difference: lack of the ubiquitous RPG, a game changer in it's own right).

Now, imagine what happens to the chances of invaders and despots when people have to neither posses firearms beforehand ( a complication all it's own), nor have to expose themselves to significant risk after hostilities have commenced. I have it on good word that barrels are easy enough to make for pistols, shotguns and submachine guns that nothing nearly as fancy is required. Propellant and charge can readily be manufactured.

Power to the people, tovarisch.

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