Been waiting for that technology for quite some time..

We'll start seeing plastic substrate boards that can be printed on by this ink, then custom pcb printers. This is exactly what I've been waiting for! So excited for this to come to market

The next thing to include is a conductive glue similar to superglue or modeling cement, which would work just as well for attaching surface mount components as it would for through-hole components, because it can form blobs. I'd be curious to know how the surface mounts were placed on the prototype board that was shown if there is no such glue, or whether they were cemented and baked....

so they took the conductive ink and put it in a printer cartridge... I thought of doing that design a while back, but im happy to see someone acually do something with it! I sooo want some!

This is simply huge !!!!!! as he said I instantly think of tons upon tons of applications. circuit design on paper for kids learning board design for starter. Touch customized flexible notebooks with circuit designs of all sorts making cool stuff, throw in a OLED flex screen and the sky is the limit. even add this in some way to a 3D printer and you get a 3D printed circuit board with multiple layer design. Tron suits with real circuits printed on cloth and led lights. electronic light switch buttons drawn on the walls this is just crazy !!!!!

Awesome! Can't wait to see this happen since it's surely way easier than etching.

Its been 6 years and you still can't find that ink.

a wifi antenna in my wall paper!

So glad he clarified it was Tokyo, JAPAN.

What I want to know is could you electroplate this to produce traces for multilayer circuit board combined with a resist that could really open up custom electronics.

How could anyone dislike this you monster!!

Very interesting! How are the components fixed on the paper and how much amperage do the tracks support? Thank you

I'm curious how they ensure good contact between the pads and the devices placed upon them. Yes, I saw the taped LED but the other circuit board didn't look taped.

that was amazing!!!

This is a piece of good news to hobbyists. Please integrate it to a 3d printer so that we can print the circuit on the inner walls of 3d printed parts. This will save a lot of effort and make things compact.

Very cool ! I hope it gets implemented in clothes in the future !!

Awesome. About time.... or at least make a drop in conductive ink cartridge to convert any printer. But the other alternative where you laser print your pattern on gloss paper/film and then apply conductive silver ink which bonds to the carbon toner works quite well in the meantime. Be neat if you could take your gerber file to Kinko's.....

Wow real cool, thank you for your work

something similar is being used in cheap keyboards for years (printed circuits i mean) 3 layers actually the only new thing is the conductive paint cartridge, still cool though

What amperage can you put through this? I didn't watch the full video so maybe this was already answered.

Hello sir, I am a student currently working on conductive ink project basically silver. Can u please help me with it. Actually on what point i can work on. I went through internet still didn't find much of information. Can u please help me with the problems currently persists for silver and also the ingredients used...

would be nice to know brands/names to search for electrical specs (i.e. Ampacity, or equivalent wire gauge)

Really exiting! We just need printable ICs

Looks promising, but I'm afraid I don't fully understanding the technology. You say it works with an inkjet printer? My guess is that it will require not just any inkjet printer but one with special print heads containing special conductive inks and a straight-line paper path. Can you print onto FR4 boards directly or can it only print onto flexible sheets like thick photo paper or acetate? Would you then paste the printed sheet onto a rigid board? What about the soldering and heat-sinking of ICs and transistors? Can the Arduino circuit shown in the video be populated and shown in action? How durable would the finished product be? In my admittedly low-volume production case, my 20 year old HP Deskjet printer probably won't handle the electro-ink printing chores so that will require my purchasing a new printer - something I have been trying to avoid. I keep my old HP because it prints regular ink onto translucent sheets just fine and I can then expose the images using UV light onto photo-sensitive boards, a simple and well-proven process. The UV/Inkjet method also avoids my having to buy a laser printer and laminator just to do toner transfers. However, this new approach appears to eliminate the Ferric Chloride etching steps, always a bonus for me (the fewer chemicals in my house the better), so perhaps it is worth considering for that quality alone.

awesome! wearable art! print fabric circuit boards.. (just increase the viscosity of the ink on a semi permeable fabric). OMG My TRON suit will be a reality!!!

Weighted components with large contact areas would be best for quick prototyping with this. Like a heavy, blown up version of SMD components.

It's just amazing

Is that silver base ink? & What is suitable material for printing.

How much is the printer? And print cartridge, and pages printed from it? Will the head clog if not used in days or weeks? Is the pen also the 'solder gun'?

A question I would have liked to hear would have been how the resistance compares to etched PCBs and compared to silver based conductive paint which is available for decades. High resistance is what usually makes these paints impractical for most circuits.

Totally Awsome !!!

Amazing!!! Technical details please!!

where I can buy this .. any link plz ...

What is the resistance of a track?

Yikes. I was going to buy an ink kit but $270 for 50ml? Wow. I buy it for $50-80 but 270. Market isnt there.

In the words of the internet "Shut up and take my money!!!!"

i wonder if this can be layered to conduct higher amperage or voltage...

how about spray paintable house wiring!

I think its low temp metal alloy like indium gallium or Ag compound

Japanese tech. I love Japan

What type of paper and ink is being used here .Pls tell me the name .So that I can but it.

Can anyone point the place where I could buy the printer and the ink?

can you solder on that O.O

Woooow amazing

What is this for a pen in 3:33 and where can i Buy it?

orange leds are the brightest!!! :D

I WANT This SOOO BAD!

Can you solder on it?

i want the pen

This technology is used in keyboards

Shut up and take my money!!!

What is the material used in the printer to make the ink conductive?

ok now were to buy the ink

AWESOME

amazing

Magic Ink!

so how do you more permanently connect parts to the printed circuits? the tape example isn't cutting for me at this point. This is one important piece of information that should not have been left out of this video!

Conductive pens have been around for years for circuit repair work. google it.

if you can get the ink cheap and you get one of those empty refillable cartridges can you fill the black ink side with the ink and print it like that??????? just a thought

Now to add this print head to a 3d printer :)

Give me one of those pens right now.

fast and safe way for teaching kids in school,electronic & robot WooW

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Dear, How can buy this ink peasesesesesse?

Where did this stuff go?!?!?!

Appreciate very nice congrats

Link for the research paper?

You did not talked about its ink and its material

the moody blues - In the beginning - your magnetic ink...

ok Tease I want it. were do I buy this.

look at those printed capacitors!

wait if the makey makey can use a regular pencil, cant we just make a simple circuit using a regular graphite pencil and regular pencil?

Okay, in my case I use a CO2 laser to induce graphene (activating lignin) on the surface of the wood and create a conductor in it.

How to buy this pen

Printers and robots together will be building more printers and robots!!!!!!!

A lead penicel works to

i will do it to control the motors of my cortine

*yes*

Not only prototyping, think of the education values!

This is actually not that technicaly advanced. It may be simple and easy , but has already been done, it just hasn't been put up for public sale and was still being improoved

But yed this is realy neat

Check out Robert Murray-Smith. He gives a few methods of making conductive inks at home.

so its pretty much silk screening....

Should be called Inkjet Printable Circuit Boards

He sounds like jin yang from silicon valley.

cool but i its not tha hard to make conductive ink

I know friends that have been doing this for years and years.

Printable WiFi Antenna FTW!!!!!!!

2021 and it turned out to be a big fat nothing burger.

2019 anyone?

how much power supply can that printed circuit can take?? reply ASAP please

I highly protest to this! Why inkjet? I have one that always jams and a black and white old laser printer! Why would you use inkjet if you *ever* want to make PCBs?

It's a great idea, but the inks are going to be quite expensive. This invention is definitely not for hobbyists.

It's just liquid metal.

even thinner phones and laptops

This stuff could be used to make robots who can make new circuits to do new tasks or improve others!! imagine robots who can just like te brain make new contacs with componets so they can learn and become more human!! XD

t want this ink

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