Jeff Gough
Type of lecture: workshop
Language: EN
Held on 2010-07-10 17:00:00 (length: 150 min)
Location: WzH:Area51
Building electronics is pretty cool. You start out by soldering kits together, or assembling systems together from pre-built modules like the Arduino and its shields. You might progress to programming more advanced development boards, like the Beagleboard, but sooner or later you'll want to design and build your own circuits. Before long, this means making a printed circuit board (PCB).
Outsourcing PCB manufacture for prototyping can be slow and expensive, particularly when you're just getting started. If you're a hardware hacker trying out some new ideas you want your circuit now, for free.
In this workshop, Jeff Gough will present his progress towards an inexpensive PCB printer by reverse engineering Epson inkjet technology. And we're not talking about the crappy print-and-bake method you might have seen on the internet. Come and learn about the miracle of microfluidics within the modern consumer inkjet printer, and how to push it to do new, exciting things. Jeff will be describing some reverse engineering techniques, a bit of electronics circuit design and 3D microfabrication with inkjet printers. A live hardware demo and discussion will follow. Finally, he'll talk a bit about his day job, sticking LEDs to celebrities.