[Benjamin] is just putting the completing touches on his home-made, paper-stabbing, needle-printer!?

From a distance, it appears like the bare bones of a routine inkjet printer, however it’s not. instead of an ink-head it features a needle — It’s type of like a dot-matrix (hole-matrix?) printer. He’s utilizing it for silk-screening masks, which we have to admit, must be quite handy — it definitely makes soldering SMT’s less scary! It might likewise be utilized for embossing or even braille printing.

The frame of the printer is laser cut out of remove plastic, as well as two Nema 17 steppers drive the X & Y axes. A simple solenoid actuator provides the needle-stabby action. He’s controlling the whole thing utilizing an Arduino, as well as sending the data to it utilizing a call-and-response protocol to prevent any type of data losses. It was developed for just timid of $200, which was his original goal for the project.

Check it out after the break!