Not that far off the mark, since they're already doing rapid protyping
by building up layers from an ink jet-like process.
Ted
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, William Carr <Jkirk3279@...> wrote:
>
> Just for a laugh:
>
> I just read "Tinker", by Wen Spencer.
>
>
> It's set in the future, and there's a repeated mention of "circuit
> paper".
>
> Anyone in the future who wants to run off a PCB prints with metallic-
> bearing inks on peel-n-stick 'paper', then sticks it on a substrate
> and surface-mounts components.
>
> One example was applying the circuit paper to human skin.... I
> thought maybe some people on this list would find the idea cute.
>
> Obviously it wouldn't be actually wood cellulose-based paper. But
> printing on mylar might work if you could attach components with
> conductive glue rather than solder.
>
> How about ferric oxide or silver paste (like heat-sink paste)
> formulated into standard hot glue sticks?
>
> Later in the novel, they also had markers with metallic inks in a
> buckeyball matrix.
>
> I had an idea years ago in my antenna-building phase, of drawing
> antennas on glass with conductive ink pens.
>
> Of course mechanically mounting lead wires to the glass would be tricky.
>