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Re: "Print Your Next PC"

Here's a link:

http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov00/mihm.htm

LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!
I WANNA KNOW HOW! :)

--- Matt Carlson <> wrote:
> I just picked up the current volume of MIT's "Technology
> Review" (Nov-Dec 2000)
> It has an article entitled "Print Your Next PC" (Page
> 66-70) about someone named Joe Jacobson at the Media Lab
> that is doing work with inorganic semiconductor 'Ink'
> that they are using with an off the shelf Hitachi inkjet
> printer to fabricate flexible low cost circuitry.
> 
> This SCREAMS wearable to me!
> 
> The goal to be able to make the equivilent of a Pentium. 
> But what they can do today made me drool.  According to
> the article they have already successfuly printed MEMS in
> the form of a fuctional thermal actuator and a
> linear-rive motar on the order of 100 micrometers.
> 
> I want this available so that I can print flexible boards
> (even if they are larger and a bit slower) that I can
> layer in the lining of my vest.  I don't need it to be
> the whole SBC (although that would be nice!) I just want
> it for the add ons!  Think about it Doug.  Being able to
> just print the boards that interface your
> microcontrolers.  Or better yet a 1ft x 1ft flexible
> sheet (or 3 if it needs to be multi layered :) that IS
> your microcontroler.
> 
> So.. does anyone at the Media Lab (hint hint BEG) want to
> talk to Jacobson and see if he is able to send out some
> samples of this 'Ink' for Alpha testing :)
> 
> M@
>  
> 

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