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Printing metal on glass with lasers [video]
- lihaciudaniel 1y ago[flagged]
- RajT88 1y agoCan you explain more?
- lihaciudaniel 1y agoIf you use most pirated laser printing, sometimes it prints watermarks just to ruin your work for pirating, funny
- varjag 1y agoThere is enormous space of unexplored manufacturing processes and product designs, simply because they lay outside of conventional design canon and standardized engineering practices.
- chiffre01 1y agoI notice this as well, so much manufacturing is based around injection molding or other plastic related materials. It's refreshing to see new techniques/ technologies used with things like metal and glass.
- ThrowawayTestr 1y agoAnd also because they're difficult to scale and there are cheaper, better processes.
- varjag 1y agoThey are better and cheaper before zillions of man hours were invested into polishing the warts.
- abdullahkhalids 1y agoA lot of useful manufacturing techniques are simply not public because it is very expensive to discover them, and obviously most entities don't want to share their techniques with other. If anything, non-standard not-well-known techniques have only been popularized recently because software is used so much in hardware design these days that some hardware designers have imbued the ethos of FOSS. Without that I doubt people will share niche techniques like this which have the potential to make lots of money.
- v7n 1y agoThe remarks at the end about cover-flip-etch and controlling oxides with gases do make me wonder about applications in fabricating microfluidic chips with integrated catalysts and/or electrical leads &c. Cool stuff!
- boredinstapanda 1y agoSeems similar to vapor deposition, though probably it looks like particles rather than vaporization.
- evan_ 1y agoApplied Science did something fairly similar (but wholly distinct!) on ceramic sheets a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxXEI0Ce6C0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxXEI0Ce6C0 bringing it up only because the techniques seem like they could possibly borrow ideas from one another.
- pleonasticity 1y agoLooks like he rediscovered Pulsed Laser Deposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_laser_deposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_laser_deposition
- boothby 1y agoNot quite. Their process is in ambient conditions (not the vacuum of PLD) and produces molten droplets and not plasma. But for low-precision work (I deal in fractions of microns at work) this sounds like a neat & cheap DIY if you already happen to have a pulsed laser CNC setup.
- butlike 1y agoCould be useful for ephemeral circuitry. When he mentioned printing copper onto glass, I immediately shot to spycraft and having disposable circuitry for clandestine operatives who could simply smash the glass, breaking the device and making it hard to discern what it was for, even if parts of it were found after the fact.
- cadamsdotcom 1y agoThis would make for a heck of a cool business card. Though it wouldn’t be durable at all, being glass and with fractures from the heat. Maybe instead it’s a cool way to do a “congratulations on 5 years with the company” trophy since those just sit on your desk :)