From Wired Magazine:
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Considering that it uses a fat-tipped felt-tip pen, this Lego printer makes a surprisingly detailed image. That’s really missing the point, though: This is a frackin’ Lego machine that can draw!
It was built from scratch by Squirrelfantasy, a member of the B3ta forums. Here’s his description from the Youtube page:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY&"]Lego Hello World[/ame]
Quote:
Considering that it uses a fat-tipped felt-tip pen, this Lego printer makes a surprisingly detailed image. That’s really missing the point, though: This is a frackin’ Lego machine that can draw!
It was built from scratch by Squirrelfantasy, a member of the B3ta forums. Here’s his description from the Youtube page:
Lego felt tip 110″ printer connected to an Apple Mac. This is not a kit you can buy and does not use mindstorms. I designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a “wiring” board.
That’s pretty bad-ass, and the little lego figures operating it are a great final-touch. What I like most is that it is so slick to use, showing up in the OS X printer dialog just like any Epson or HP printer. Better still, this one will never give you a low-ink warning: if the pictures start to fade, you can lick the tip of the pen, or pull out the inky insert and use that instead. That should work just as well as it did when you were a kid (ie. not at all).
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY&"]Lego Hello World[/ame]
