Homebrew PCBs

Not that far off the mark, since they're already doing rapid protyping
by building up layers from an ink jet-like process.
Ted

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, William Carr <Jkirk3279@...> wrote:
>
> Just for a laugh:
> 
> I just read "Tinker",   by Wen Spencer.
> 
> 
> It's set in the future, and there's a repeated mention of "circuit  
> paper".
> 
> Anyone in the future who wants to run off a PCB prints with metallic- 
> bearing inks on peel-n-stick 'paper',  then sticks it on a substrate  
> and surface-mounts components.
> 
> One example was applying the circuit paper to human skin....  I  
> thought maybe some people on this list would find the idea cute.
> 
> Obviously it wouldn't be actually wood cellulose-based paper.   But  
> printing on mylar might work if you could attach components with  
> conductive glue rather than solder.
> 
> How about ferric oxide or silver paste (like heat-sink paste)  
> formulated into standard hot glue sticks?
> 
> Later in the novel, they also had markers with metallic inks in a  
> buckeyball matrix.
> 
> I had an idea years ago in my antenna-building phase, of drawing  
> antennas on glass with conductive ink pens.
> 
> Of course mechanically mounting lead wires to the glass would be tricky.
>