It prints slow, but it’s fun to watch:
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And I have to admit, a felt-tip pen is pretty cheap compared to a toner cart.
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Wow. I am SERIOUSLY impressed.
Don’t be so sure about the cost. I bet the nib of that pen goes flat every page or so, and the quality deteriorates. And that’s printing large block letters. Do real text (where the pen would go up and down more often) and I’m sure it’s a mess pretty soon.
We need a Lego ink-jet printer that runs on cola…
It should only go flat if the pen is pushed further forward against the block than it should. If the pen only barely touches the paper (say, pushing half a millimetre) it won’t go flat. It’s because people use felt tips as if they were ballpoints that their tips deform at all…
Sure it seems cheap now, but those lego-men are going to want raises after a while.
Catchy beat too.
Not to mention that horse. Do you have ANY idea how much a horse eats per month???
I think what suprises me the most is the fact that this doesn’t suprise me at all. I’m watching this and thinking ‘Sure, a Lego printer. That makes sense.’
The Internet has jaded me to awesome things.
In a word: awesome.
I want one, just so it can sit on my desk and look cool.
I’m in love.
I saw this earlier this week and was going to e-mail you the link, it seemed something you would be impressed with, but I never could find your e-mail.
Yes, Shamus’s email is hard to find and very un-intuitive :D
Found it. Granted it was not in the TwentySided section of his website that I frequent. I don’t know that I remembered his main page until now.
Amazing. And with minifigures on top? Doubly amazing!
That. Is. Awesome.
Still quicker than a dot-matrix printer…
Also, that was WICKED-SICK!!! :thumbs up:
Nifty.
Haha cool. I used to fool around with the Lego Mindstorms robotics kit and got my creations to do some pretty neat stuff. Nothing like that, though!
I wonder how, precisely, one does make a Lego felt tip printer. Now I must Google it and see if anybody has instructions because I MUST create a Lego printer. See? I just wrote it on my “before I die” list. Kind of sad how geeky this list is, really.
If you read the description on Youtube, there is a fairly complete FAQ. This one is home-made, but it sounds like there are more readily useable kits out there.
That’s awesome! I love that the internet can bring us this sort of thing in addition to all the nonsense.
Felt-tip pens are cheap compared to printer ink? Hell, human blood is cheap compared to printer ink.
So is mammoth blood. Or alien ichor.
Yep, I think this is the graph you’re referring to:
http://gizmodo.com/212444/hp-ink-costs-more-than-human-blood-booze
Yes! Exactly what I was thinking of :D
The Legos are going to take over the world. They start with “hello world” and end the the complete enslavement of the human race.
I, for one, welcome our new plastic overlords. May their reign be both long and constructive.
/facepalm
I’m amazed by the accuracy of this thing. I don’t think I could even get a construction like that to move the paper so precisely.
I agree, it’s much more accurate in terms of paper feeding and pen usage than I thought it would be
Wow. Just, wow.
Also, I want one!
I’ve been studying all day for an exam tomorrow about basic embedded systems. Seeing this video should be making me think, “Wow, neat!” Instead, I’m having involuntary spouts of questions popping up in my head, like, “How would I wire the chip select port on the driving IO device? Would I be able to use DMA for that page’s data in a single data segment?”
I was going to write another question or two, but I am slowly realizing the exam takes place in ~ten hours. You get the point. Bet I’ll have pleasant, completely un-class-related dreams tonight.
If they were using Windows, they’d have a better selection of printers.