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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: ElementCoder on November 25, 2013, 04:00:47 am

Title: Draw circuits
Post by: ElementCoder on November 25, 2013, 04:00:47 am

Just found this on Kickstarter. I find it pretty awesome :)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electroninks/circuit-scribe-draw-circuits-instantly

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Eiyeron on November 25, 2013, 04:12:30 am

Shared with my IT teachers, they will certainly love it! Thanks for finding it! :p

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Keoni29 on November 25, 2013, 05:14:04 am

I'd buy it if it weren't water based. I want a pen that allows me to patch up traces.

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Sorunome on November 25, 2013, 09:03:43 am

wha, that looks pretty amazing, nice find!

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Loulou 54 on November 25, 2013, 12:12:49 pm

Yes very cool ! So much possibilities !

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 25, 2013, 01:14:55 pm

Waaahh that's pretty awesome. Instant cardboard PCBs anyone ? Should be handy for prototyping. :D/me wants

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: ElementCoder on November 25, 2013, 01:17:35 pm

I can only imaging just sitting in class like "You know what would be a cool idea?" and then drawing a circuit that works :P

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 25, 2013, 01:23:02 pm

Yeah. What would be even cooler is drawable components.

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Sorunome on November 25, 2013, 01:23:57 pm

hehe, like draw a resistor and write in there the value xD
would be awesome indeed <_<

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 25, 2013, 01:24:52 pm

Or transistors and LCDs. Design an 8 bit calc in minutes ! :D

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Sorunome on November 25, 2013, 01:25:47 pm

Let's draw a TI-84+ :P

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: aeTIos on November 25, 2013, 01:39:23 pm

wonder if that'd work :P

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: harold on November 25, 2013, 01:41:48 pm

You can draw resistors with a common pencil. Hard to tune, though.
Drawing transistors would be much better. You could actually draw your logic design and immediately have it work.
Would be tricky though. Maybe with 3 pens? N-type pen, P-type pen and this pen?

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Sorunome on November 25, 2013, 01:42:19 pm

hehe, let's draw some USB-sticks if you happen to need more flash memory XD

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 25, 2013, 01:43:49 pm

Yeah./me doodles an i7 4960X circuit

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: ben_g on November 25, 2013, 01:46:16 pm

Quote from: Sorunome on November 25, 2013, 01:42:19 pm

hehe, let's draw some USB-sticks if you happen to need more flash memory XD

It's a bit impractical though, you'll have to draw billions of transistors to get a decent size of memory, and the ink you'll use in the process will probably cost more than a normal flash drive or SD card.

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Eiyeron on November 25, 2013, 01:49:23 pm

Is drawing transistors possible?

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: ben_g on November 25, 2013, 03:45:39 pm

Quote from: Eiyeron on November 25, 2013, 01:49:23 pm

Is drawing transistors possible?

I think the current pen can only draw conductors, but it looks like it should be possible to add smd components.

Title: Re: Draw circuits
Post by: Streetwalrus on November 25, 2013, 03:46:35 pm

Yeah they do it in ther demo (SMD stuff).