PingPongPrinter February Nuts & Volts

The PingPongPrinter prototype by Vern Graner and Rick Abbott. Uses the Parallax Serial Inkjet print head kit and the EFX-TEK Prop-2 board. Prints text on Ping Pong Balls. The printed balls are used as "ammo" for the PONGINATOR! :) Read all about it in This Month's Nuts and Volts magazine (www.nutsvolts.com)!

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[PassingTrain]

- I have to hand stamp part numbers on metal, circuit board, and plastic parts, and this problem comes up occasionally. So far I don't have a good solution, though abrading the surface may make it a little easier to get the ink to stick. I also wonder if there is a primer that can be applied to give the ink a proper surface to stick to.

[AustinNRG]

Could this print golf balls and any other relatively small balls?

...not Weiner's of course...lol

[MrInventWorld]

Love it.

[nicrox111]

ya we thought of that too but then we thought about it because we needed to launch a projectile from a air cannon as advertisement WITHOUT killing people or injuring it was an idea though (just F.Y.I i helped build the thing that shoots the balls THE PONGINATOR!!!!1!)

[nicrox111]

i agree lol but homebuilds cause for pyrotechnics sometimes to *get's evil stare from dad* heh-heh *says under breath "stupid radio..." *

[nicrox111]

your welcome!

[nicrox111]

woot 8th comment! and congrats on 25k views

[ashishrd]

Wow! Awesome.

[234930]

There was a robot that wrote your name on a golf ball at some exhibition I went to about five years ago. But that was some industrial machine, a homebuild is way cooler.

[metal0artist0kyle]

Very kool!!!!