DIY INKJET PRINTER pleads TO BE HACKED

[Nicholas C Lewis, Patrick Hannan, Jared Knutzen, as well as happiness Markham], trainees from the university of Washington, have just recently taken the wraps off a job which they have been working together on, a diy inkjet printer. The group set out to build a low cost, open source inkjet printer for personal utilize that uses basic inkjet technology. Their working prototype, visualized above, satisfies all of those requirements, making it an perfect gadget for the at-home hobbyist.

The printer was built from simple to acquire elements such as steel rods as well as stepper motors, together with other parts that can be printed utilizing a RepRap or similar machine. An Arduino Mega handles the steppers as well as repurposed print head, recreating whatever Processing-generated picture it has been given.

The printer is rather a hit so far, as well as people are already speaking about adapting the style to print on spherical objects (think EggBot), to produce direct etch withstand PCBs, as well as more. We believe it would make a fantastic direct to garment printer with just a few little tweaks.

Check out the short video embedded below to see the printer in action.

[via Make]