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A machine that might change how small businesses and hobbyists manufacture circuit boards has just reached its Kickstarter goals in a matter of minutes:
The Voltera V-One circuit printer, one of our favorite finds at CES this year, just launched its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter — and hit $100,000 in 35 minutes.
The Voltera system provides multiple capabilities: It will print the traces for your prototype circuit board (at 8mil space and trace), dispense solder paste to allow you to place SMD components on professionally manufactured boards, and provide heat for reflowing those electronics onto boards. And it prints multiple layers with a transparent ink.
The extruders on the system pop on and off with magnetic clasps, allowing for easy transitions between materials.
Initially priced at $1499, it is perhaps beyond the reach of many home constructors, but I expect that prices will fall in time and then we can say goodbye to the chemicals and UV lights.
Original Submission
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @02:14AM
Pay your unemployed shiftless neighbor to write bad poetry all day instead of begging on the street corner. Pay the jobless and unemployable not to mug you and steal your money. Pay the oversexed to buy porn instead of raping you.
Kickstarter right here, right now, without increasing your taxes by a single cent. Fix the economy by paying out-of-work losers not to work.
Donations here!
(sound of fucking crickets)
(you motherfuckers)