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Somewhere along the line it occured to me that computer hardware often uses ceramic stuff as semiconductors and insulators. So, it should be fairly simple to imbed computer stuff into pottery. It would certainly be nice to add some utility to pottery, which looks nice, but could be easily replaced
by much less fragile plastic.
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As long as your circuits are there...go live. [reensure, Apr 28 2001]
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I think blue teeth would be excellent - and pottery - yes! |
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You can embed electronics in just
about anything that doesn't
conduct. BlueTooth pottery, sure.
BlueTooth glassware, BlueTooth
cabinets, BlueTooth floors,
BlueTooth toilets, BlueTooth
mirrors, BlueTooth cars, BlueTooth
tables, BlueTooth rocks, BlueTooth
light fixtures, BlueTooth whatever. |
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The point is, what do you do with
these electronics once you've
embedded them? You don't specify
that part. Where do they get
power from? Do they have I/O
other than Bluetooth, or sensors,
or something? What's the *point*? |
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The fact that chips occasionally
use ceramic packaging makes it no
easier or harder to embed them in
ceramic pottery. It's actually
pretty difficult, because the heat
of firing would destroy any
embedded electronics, so you'd
have to leave a gap for them and
slot them in after firing. |
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(We've just finished building a pottery)
And it's v. hard
to leave a gap for anything as the ~10% shrinkage of clay
during firing is hard to get absolutely right. |
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I say we give hippo a special prize. A Croissie, perhaps. |
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Ring. "Finish your milk!" "OK, Mom." (how did she know that?) |
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Feasibility isn't enough for a no vote; enough work, time and experimentation makes most things doable. |
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What would you do with it? |
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Bluetooth lets things talk with each other. What would pottery want to talk about? |
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Pottery would need sensors, so it would know something about itself. Perhaps if it is broken or leaking, or how full it is, or how humid its contents are, or how far it's been moved, or whether it is off balance. It could communicate about the weather, about whether the plant needs watering, if the flowers are dead, if a burglar has been by, if it needs to be adjusted after an earthquake. |
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Yeah, but that's just ubiquitous
computing (an active area of
research); there's no reason to
talk specifically about pottery. |
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...anything to further research into halfbaked ideas. |
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Thank god(dess) for Drexel tools |
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Combine it with ceramic dentures, and you have Bluetooth teeth. |
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Add a very small amount of Cobalt Oxide when firing your ceramic dentures (Porcelain - fire to about Cone 10 or 1250C) and you'll have Blue Bluetooth Teeth. |
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Perhaps a solar powered bluetooth flower pot? Add a humidity and temperature sensor, and it can send you an e-mail asking for more water, sunlight, or heat. |
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The bakery is like a ghost town today. The "random" link generally helps. |
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