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Monday, April 8, 2013

Fire Writer Printer.

An wall or ply board called the Arduino Uno, a small self-contained computer, was programmed with wiring and processing to integrate an ink jet printer, a Dremel torch and a calibration module with an optical sensor.
 A graphic designer has combined a printer with a blowtorch to make an incredible tool which burns images onto surfaces down to the tiniest detail. The 'Fire writer' was created by Lucien Langton to reproduce black and white images perfectly pixel for pixel on walls, wood, plastic and fabric. The blowtorch is mounted on rollers, and the user simply loads the image they want into a computer, the 'rolls' the contraption along a large sheet of wood. Lucien Langton built the Fire writer which burns images pixel for pixel onto surfaces without setting them on fire.
The Fire writer combines an ink jet printer with a blowtorch to burn images onto surfaces. Butane and propane are burned at 1,200C to create black and white images pixel for pixel. 
The tool, invented at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, burns a mixture of butane and propane at 1,200C to create the images but does not set surfaces on fire.  A user holds the Fire writer up against the surface they want to print on, and then guides it horizontally along using calibrated wheels. Mr Langton said: 'Fire writer is a machine using contemporary rapid prototyping electronics combined with humanity’s first technology: fire,' he said. The machine was constructed by Lucien Langton at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne
Wheels enable the user to lower the printer one line at a time on the vertical axis using a support. Lucien Langton said he wanted to combine the oldest technology known to man with more modern technology.' The purpose is to propose a dialogue between image reproduction and its destruction.' 
The Fire writer works by feeding an image into the processing script, which writes a wiring code that can be compiled and sent onto the Arduino board. It has wheels that enable the user to lower the printer one line at a time on the vertical axis on a support.  The duration, strength and precision of the flame can be controlled in real-time manually with a pitch.  As this terrifying 'blowtorch printer' that uses FIRE to burn messages onto wood Fire writer burns black and white images onto surfaces. Contraption is rolled up a sheet of wood, scorching a pattern as it goes. Butane and propane burn at 1,200C without setting surfaces on fire.

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