Fire Printers Seem Like The Best Terrible Idea Ever

Inkjet printers are improbably annoying , and if this one did n’t print with flak there would be no making over the inkjet ’s epitome . But it does . It ’s shout theFireWriter .

make by Lucien Langton atECAL , the University of Art and Design Lausanne , the FireWriter uses an Arduino Uno program withWiringandProcessingto integrate an inkjet pressman , a Dremel torch and an optical detector . Combined , these share produce a printing machine that can horizontally print a black and white image pixel for picture element . A drug user holds the FireWriter up against the Earth’s surface they desire to print on , and then guide the FireWriter blood line by line using calibrated wheels .

The FireWriter can somehow impress on woods , wall , charge plate and fabric without setting anything on flak , even though the Dremel torch , cauterise a mix of butane and propane , burns at 2,192 degrees Fahrenheit . Langton say that the FireWriter is meant to explore the intersection between modern technology and “ humanity ’s first technology : fire . The intent is to propose a talks between image replication and its destruction . ” Definitely reading the destruction part loud and clean . [ Creative Applications ]