From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 02:51:25 MST
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael M. Butler wrote:
> Another somewhat saturnine observation: it's another nail in the coffin
> of hobby electronics--hacking the internals of a throwaway calculator
Actually, it's the very opposite. The inkjet approach allows you to do
your own fabbing on the desktop. Sure, it's plastic transistors (unless
you go for semiconductor suspensions in plastic ink, but even then it
won't let you hack 100 GHz digital pulse stuff, unless you buy the partly
prefabbed dies and print your custom circuitry on top of it), but you can
lay out things essentially in three dimensions. Using a rig the size of a
fridge or a large inkjet, directly driven by the computer you made the
circuit on and simulated it on.
If this is not power to the people, I don't know what it is.
> or radio used to be one of the rites of passage. Harder to do that when
> everything is a Daliesque blob of function.
>
> Bring on desktop tomography!
>
> Gee, I wonder where I can rent a copy of _eXistenZ_...
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