There have been roller-ball pens with conductive ink for decades. And flex circuits with silkscreened silver and carbon conductive inks.
"The key advantage of the pen is that the costly printers and printheads typically required for inkjet or other printing approaches are replaced with an inexpensive, hand-held writing tool,"
This is equivalent to saying that monks with quill pens are less expensive than printing presses.
These conductive ink things don't generally solder well.
More university press-release nonsense.
John
Another case of reinventing the wheel. I played with conductive ink in a felt marker back in the 70's. It was useless then and probably still is. Art
John Lark>These conductive ink things don't generally solder well.
We can hope that *that* is the breakthrough.
I had that response figured out almost to the word. 8-)
MIT announces some equally impressive breakthrough about daily. If 1% of them worked, we'd be living in paradise by now.
John
I am rather surprised that there seems to be nobody who'd at least pull the really loco ones before they get to the press. Too many "pie in the sky" type press releases aren't exactly beneficial when it comes to the reputation of a university.
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And silver oxidises, and stops conducting.
NT
Do they have transistor and mosfet pens? ;-)
Cheers! Rich
I think that "reputation" is sort of in the mind of the beholder.
I can think of at least one demographic who slavers for pie in the sky. They want it so badly that they'll happily spend your last dollar on it! (but never their own, of course.)
Cheers! Rich
The Graduation of Jim Thompson? >:->
Cheers! Rich
Who told you that it stops conducting?
Thanks, Rich
These work OK for certain PC board repairs (including flexible boards). But I don't know how well these would work for anything other than the simplest layout.
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