Collaborate Disseminate
How we missed this one from a few years ago is unknown, but we’re glad to catch up with it now. Have you ever needed to measure how thick the ink in a Sharpie line is? Of course you haven’t. But if you needed to, how would you do it? …read more
Continue reading Measuring Sharpie Thickness… The Ink Itself, Not the Pen!
Inkjet printers are cheap to buy, but expensive to run. Replacement cartridges can easily cost double the price of the hardware itself, leading many to decry the technology entirely. However, the hackers of the world have the problem licked – enter the continuous ink system.
[cprossu] wanted an affordable color …read more
Continue reading Inkjet Printing On The Cheap With A Continuous Ink System
Ink! No matter the printer you’ve got, whether it be inkjet, laser or otherwise, it’s the consumables that will send you broke. At times, the cost of Hewlett-Packard black ink has exceeded the price per volume of human blood, and shareholders around the world have rejoiced.
As a retrocomputing reprobate, …read more
Continue reading Reinking Dot Matrix Printer Ribbons Because It’s Fun, Okay
What do you get when you mix transhumanism with some really good ink? Continue reading This Cyborg Tattoo Artist Will Give You Hope for Our Future
DRM will help HP make more money, but makes life frustrating for consumers. The post HP Has Added DRM to Its Ink Cartridges. Not Even Kidding appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading HP Has Added DRM to Its Ink Cartridges. Not Even Kidding
But he probably can’t talk you through the pain. Continue reading Tattoué the Robot Could Be Your Next Tattoo Artist
[HomoFaciens] is always making us feel silly about our purchases. Did we really need to buy a nice set of stepper motors for that automation project? Couldn’t we have just used some epoxy and a threaded rod to make an encoder? Did we need to spend hours reading through the documentation for an industrial inkjet head? Couldn’t we just have asked ourselves, “What would [HomoFaciens] do?” and then made a jailhouse tattoo gun attached to a broken printer carriage and some other household tech trash?
In his continuing work for his Hackaday prize entry, which we have covered before, his …read more
Continue reading [HomoFaciens] Shows Off With DIY Paper Printer