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Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Squink - The conductive ink printer

From: "Tony Smith" <ajsmith1968@...>
Date: 2014-07-16

Cute idea.



The silver conductive ink has been around for ages (quite expensive too) and is usually used for repairing PCB traces. People have managed to put it into an inkjet cartridge, eg: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2493486, the main barrier was the silver particles were too big.



This looks like what Squink are doing as well.



I guess the ‘conductive glue dots’ is solder paste. Or maybe not as ‘place in oven’ seems to be missing from the instructions. A different formulation to make the ink thicker?



Just the pick & place would be handy enough.



Tony











Wow, have you seen this?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/botfactory/squink-the-personal-electronic-circuit-factory



Never heard about the conductive glue, but it sees to work pretty well. 10 mils is not bad, It will be perfect to me when they get 6 mils resolution, vias and multilayer, but it is a very interesting beggining. It also has pick and place!



I really liked it, it's the future for amateur and hobby. I'm not going to spend more than $3000 on it, but I hope this can get cheaper and better in a near future.












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