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  Vipra in action at the judging tables

Vipra

No one likes printers. They attempt to bridge the physical and digital world, but they very frequently fail. Why? Aside from the inherit technical challenges, the approach normal printers take is misguided. Normal printers take a digital, rasterized image from the digital world and print it into an analog world, pixel by pixel. But the real world doesn't have pixels. The real world has analog shapes and lines. Why isn't there a printer made for the analog world it lives in? Why isn't there a printer made for people?

Vipra's printhead holds a normal ballpoint or felt-tip pen. This carriage is attached to a linear side and a belt, enabling horizontal motion. It is fed dot-matrix-printer-paper, and drive wheels interface with the edges of the paper to move it forward or backwards. This enables it to print a vector image, in one color, by moving the pen back and forth at the same time the paper is moved forward and backward.

Built With

• 3dprinting
• laser-cutting
• python
• raspberry-pi
• rpi-gpio