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Ping Pong Printer! :)

Started by ilusion, February 04, 2008, 05:24:41 PM

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ilusion

PingPongPrinter


The subject of a recent article in Nuts and Volts, the PingPongPrinter was inspired by the need to find a low-cost "ammo" source for the Ponginator our Ping Pong Ball shooting robot.

The resulting device uses a Prop-2 to power four servos, a gear head motor, three strings of LEDs, a CCFT light and a Serial Inkjet kit! It was a lot of fun to make and produces a seemingly endless supply of Spherical Business Cards. ;) You can see a video of the device in action here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ep5OC3E02I

Or pick up the current issue of Nuts and Volts to read about it there. Here's some photos that I didn't use in the article as the article went to press before the unit was really done. :)

http://picasaweb.google.com/VernGraner/PingPongPrinter

Let me know if you have any questions. :)

Vern







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"Why are we in this Handbasket? And where are we going?!"

JonnyMac

Very cool project, Vern.  Interestingly enough... it was John Barrowman (hardware design and PCB layout) and yours truly (SX firmware) who designed the [original] ink jet module while we were at Parallax, so you've got lots of Team EFX in your project. 

Again, way cool.
Jon McPhalen
EFX-TEK Hollywood Office

menehune

Cool!  If I build one and put in a color cartridge, can I print full color pictures on the ping pong balls? ;D

livinlowe

Vern-
I just read about this(in my nuts and volts). Awesome job!
Shawn
Scaring someone with a prop you built -- priceless!

avgjoefriday

This is completely ingenious ;-)  What a crafty mind you have!