Homebrew PCBs

I have thought about something along the lines you are describing.
There is a glassblower in my area that will be offering flameworking
classes in the near future. I plan on taking that class and hopefully
gain more knowledge about the technique. 

However in the  most basic form I would not think it would take much
more equipment than would found in a chemistry class. It should not be
that hard to draw a pippette from a piece of tubing to form a nozzile.
Finding a ring piezo element might be the bigger challenge. Though I
seem to recall some designs that use a flat piezo element. 

There is a company that has a rather interesting application for
ejecting solder droplets to produce solder balls on chip scale
packages.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "iulian_dbc" <iulian_dbc@y...>
wrote:
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "javaguy11111"
> <javaguy11111@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > It almost sounds like something along the lines of this--
> > 
> > <http://www.slac.stanford.edu/exp/mps/FCS/FCS_drop.htm>
> > 
> > If you had access to some glassblowing equipement it would 
> > be possible to build something as is mentioned above. You would 
> > also need the appropriate piezoelectric element.
> > 
> > I have found a few designs like this used in a university
environment,
> > but descriptions are few and far between.
> 
> Ok this in fact along with other designs are the foundations of my
> print head . I also found the design you showed and others
> experimented by MIT and published in several scientific
publications.
> 
> Unfortunately i do not have access to that technology in Romania :((
> 
> Thank You
> 
> iulian