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The Genius of the Lego Printer
Barence writes "If you've ever struggled to build anything more complex than a cube of Lego, this will blow your mind. It's a fully functioning Lego printer, complete with felt tip print head."
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...but is there a Linux driver?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Stop linking to websites that link to the actual fucking article: http://www.b3ta.com/links/Lego_printer
Also, this is just a more advanced variation of a project included with the original Lego Mindstorms kit.
P.S.: fucking Flash used for video again. Lame.
You mean "it's 1,000 times cheaper than inkjet".
I thought it printed LEGO creations from LEGO blocks.
Y’know, your average 3D printer... but with LEGO bricks.
That would be cool.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
1. Multiple colors via a pen carousel and switching mechanism.
2. Support for plotting in addition to line-by-line output.
3. Halftone dithering.
If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Somewhere, there are LaserJet IIs still printing.
Not all HP printers are consumer grade junk.
No, it's not a plotter. Plotters are able to move the substrate back and forth underneath the pen. Combined with the left and right motion, a plotter can make a line in any direction on the substrate. "Plotters are restricted to line art," as your wikipedia link says. This can't even do line art. It must rasterize ("pixelize") an image before it can be printed.
After all, I am strangely colored.
Plotters draw vectors. Based on the demo this is pretty clearly raster-based. Don't let the way it holds the ink fool you; it's a printer.
Wonderful. Like angels on an illustrated manuscript.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
They have one, it's called RepRap.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY
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lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
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My only disappointment is that he used "special pieces." At least, I think a felt-tip and a rubber-band count as those.
For what it's worth, here's a video of a LEGO car printer made of LEGO bricks. It's not an arbitrary 3d printer, it just does cars, but you can choose the color of the car.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.