Start the Presses: Printable Circuits Nearly Ready

akookieone writes: "MIT Tech Review has an article on Rolltronics (first appearing in /. a year ago). Seems they can now print circuits 10 micrometers across, and are thinking they could 'very shortly' move from R&D to production."

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Re:Cool technology

[Rentar]

And great for people who want to play with circuits, but don't have a way to fab their own chips. Which is pretty much all of us. We can now go along and make our own Z80 and 6502 derivatives running at a slower speed then the original, but very light and plasticy. Sounds like great fun.

I don't know which fact I should find more alerting:

• That I read a site where ppl post such things
• That I understand what you are saying
• That I agree on the "Sounds like great fun."-part.

Great

[foo fighter]

Like I don't have enough printer support headaches at work already.

I can just imagine the calls I'll be getting from my boss now:

"Foo Fighter, my printer is smearing my traces all over the place. Could you come by and clean it so I can finish printing my new Palm?"

Or:

"Foo, I was printing my PowerPoint slide show, but the headlines are blinking red instead of blue. And the line chart on page three only animates halfway, then stops. Could you get over here right away and fix this?"

Or:

"Those nanobots I printed and released into the fish tank to monitor polution yesterday have eaten my goldfish. Could you come up with some new nanobots to eat the bad nanobots?"

Great. Just Great.